Shingleback help

[PeppersGirl]

We have a 5yo shingleback with some sort of issue
Since yesterday she has looked as though she's in pain - really fast, heavy breathing and frequently getting up to 'twist' herself in circles.
We've taken her to a reptile vet, the only thing he was able to tell us (of use) was that she doesn't have a resp. infection.

Please, can anyone help?

 

[souldoubt]

Please tell me that he does want to work up the case further and hasn't just sent you away with "it's not a respiratory infection"?

Sorry that does not answer your question in the slightest, I'm just hoping that the situation is not the way it sounds

 

[PeppersGirl]

Well we were asking if she might've been gravid (all we could think of, which he dissmissed saying that they drop in January!) but yeah he pretty well has

 

[souldoubt]

Thats so slack! I'd visit a different (more determined, if nothing else) vet.

 

[MathewB]

Sounds like a gravid lizard to me. Not sure about the twisting though. And yeah see a different vet.

 

[PeppersGirl]

Hmm yeah, good advice
Thought I'd ask here first though to see if anyone knows
Oh, and she weighed in at 720 grams

 

[MathewB]

Is that her usual weight?

 

[PeppersGirl]

When we bought her (at the vic expo) she was 680, but she's been 720ish for the last 2-3 weeks

 

[eden roscoe]

if she mated she could quite possibly be gravid as mine tend to give birth in march. I hope she is, that would be a nice ending to what was a bad situation.

 

[souldoubt]

hahaha so you may have bought a gravid shingleback? what a bargain!

 

[PeppersGirl]

Yeah well that was our original thought souldoubt, (she was in with 2 unrelated shingles) but we're worried because she's taking it so hard.
She still eats, thought they went off their food before giving birth?