MissBMonkey
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Hi all,
I am at a complete loss. My sweet Ducky has had a distended gut for over a year now. We're at the vet every few weeks and the vet still has no clue as what it could be. She's supposedly one of the best Avian vets in the country, but we still don't have answers.
My sweet girl is happy and in the best of spirits. She doesn't seem to be bothered by it. But she pees / poos every 2 minutes and it is projectile diarrhea... it goes EVERYWHERE. I've never seen so much fluid come out of such a tiny thing. She's for the most part free range, so I'm constantly running after her wiping up pools of stool.
She's currently on antibiotics for a bacterial infection. She's prone to those. At the end of the week we go for a check up and hopefully they'll tell me she can come off of the antibiotics. The vet suggested an anti inflammatory, which we're doing to try at our next appointment if she can come off of the meds.
Ducky is on a diet of several different pellets, a veggie mash, and some fruit here and there and has been for years. She has no signs of being overweight other than her actual weight because of whatever is in her gut. She's been at 90g give or take, and she's supposed to be only 72g.
Her blood is normal except for some elevated white blood cells due to the bacterial infection.
Her liver levels are normal.
She's had an xray for a possible egg binding but that was negative.
She's had an ultrasound and originally they thought her liver was enlarged, then they thought her pancreas.
The weird thing to me is that twice she GOT BETTER! Once, last October, all of a sudden all symptoms went away for a month and she was back to her normal weight. Then same in April of this year - for a month she was symptom free.
I'm completely baffled. I just made another appointment for an ultrasound, but now I honestly have no hope. The last one didn't help, why would this one?
I feel at such a loss. I don't know if anyone has any other ideas that might be helpful. Has anyone experienced this?
I am at a complete loss. My sweet Ducky has had a distended gut for over a year now. We're at the vet every few weeks and the vet still has no clue as what it could be. She's supposedly one of the best Avian vets in the country, but we still don't have answers.
My sweet girl is happy and in the best of spirits. She doesn't seem to be bothered by it. But she pees / poos every 2 minutes and it is projectile diarrhea... it goes EVERYWHERE. I've never seen so much fluid come out of such a tiny thing. She's for the most part free range, so I'm constantly running after her wiping up pools of stool.
She's currently on antibiotics for a bacterial infection. She's prone to those. At the end of the week we go for a check up and hopefully they'll tell me she can come off of the antibiotics. The vet suggested an anti inflammatory, which we're doing to try at our next appointment if she can come off of the meds.
Ducky is on a diet of several different pellets, a veggie mash, and some fruit here and there and has been for years. She has no signs of being overweight other than her actual weight because of whatever is in her gut. She's been at 90g give or take, and she's supposed to be only 72g.
Her blood is normal except for some elevated white blood cells due to the bacterial infection.
Her liver levels are normal.
She's had an xray for a possible egg binding but that was negative.
She's had an ultrasound and originally they thought her liver was enlarged, then they thought her pancreas.
The weird thing to me is that twice she GOT BETTER! Once, last October, all of a sudden all symptoms went away for a month and she was back to her normal weight. Then same in April of this year - for a month she was symptom free.
I'm completely baffled. I just made another appointment for an ultrasound, but now I honestly have no hope. The last one didn't help, why would this one?
I feel at such a loss. I don't know if anyone has any other ideas that might be helpful. Has anyone experienced this?
The funny part is, is that I used to give her some seeds. I decided to eliminate the seeds and she got better! But then slowly started to decline again, which just completely stumps me, because she hasn't had seeds since.
