Cheers for ur replies i'll do my best to give as much info as we can but this is all so over whelming and stresful and some important info may have escaped us as the vets shot a fair few possible causes at us to keep track of so everything was a little hard to sink in so sorry in advance.
yeah we r frustrated i should also say the vets rnt useless i know they r doing their best and if it came down to it $$$$ spent it wouldnt b an issue but we r just hoping we dont have to do unessasary tests if we can help it, fingers crossed. Unfortunatly these vets r the only actual bird specialist vet that we know around Perth so we dont have alot of options to get a 2nd opinion just yet.
Some more info on the symtoms my partner has suggested to say as he read this and it wasnt enough info. Basically appart from wat was mentioned i must say the strange thing here is it seems like she has her good and bad days, symtoms mentioned r happening only on her bad days, seems like it come in cycles of around every 2 somtimes 3 days until she has her next bad day. We have noticed at times wen she has this paralysation attack its like she has no control of her feet and has no strength in her legs. Somtimes we have seen recently she can throw her head back aswell as if she cant support it properly
its really worrying wen she does this. On her good days tho she can hold onto ur finger with strength as if nothing has happened and b well balanced tho she still wont talk or b her normal self even on these good days. She wont even hold things with her feet like normal birds she wont even eat with the aid of her feet either so she mustnt trust her own balance i dont think.
With all the tests the vets did, while Jewles was under anaesthetic we also got them to do a blood test 2 check the sex of her at the same time and they rang yesterday to tell us Jewles is actually a male!!! YAY...... now we have toget used to calling her a he LOL lucky we gave him a kinda unisex name LOL. We were also told it could b possibly mayb b an egg is trying to pass but we can now rule that out.
They did do x rays and basically they said all her organs ect... looked the correct size, kydneys, liver ect....were functioning fine and there was no other obvious abnormalties seen. Xrays were taken to check her bones from a calcium deficiency but tests came back that calcium levels were fine and xrays showed no bad signs of bone decay. They then asked if she had been injuired recently, the only thing we can think of here is in the past she has tried to jump from her inside cage and landed onto the floor from table height that mayb she was hurting from this? but again xrays showed nothing. The vet did say he had a slight elivated heart rate which could have just been from stress or mayb from being injuired as she explained wen birds get injuires that they elivate their own heart rate to repair the injuiry. She did say tho it wasnt a high elivation it was just slightly above normal and wasnt a high risk of concern.
we read ur post crimson and we r sorry to read wat u went through its not a nice feeling wen ur bird is sick and u cant do anything, but from ur x rays it was obvious u could see the problem thankfully and i could b safe to say the vets would have picked that up but i will ask again just to double check wen we see the vets again. Our vets seem to think if it is metal poisoning it could b in her blood which the real expensive testing is needed for that?
We have 2 cages- one small indoor 1-powdercoated & new, the large one is outdoors we bought private 2nd hand which the vet did say this cage could b the cause because its galvinised and could b the possible cause as birds tend to chew on these type of cages?
my partner has just told me the $35 injection was for somthing (at the time we didnt know the sex and neither did the vet) but we cant remember exactly wat it is the vet said but its somthing that can push on the birds ovaries or gonads and this injection would sort that problem out with in 10 days but the vet said normally if this was the case she would have picked up the problem in the x rays as all his organs ect..... were all in proportian in size and nothing was out of ordinary so she was stumped and could only really think mayb its the metal poinsioning doing it? but she would still like to try this test even since its also a cheap test.
we have not changed our life style in any way that we can think appart from the outside weather getting hotter now (40*+ at times) but we have been keeping her inside wen the weather gets over 30*. Jewles's routeen has never changed since we got him and there is nothing that we can think of that could b the cause of this. He does have some toys but he rarely plays with them at all and usually shys away from them, he has always done that and seems to b more attached to just being in our company, its strange we have never seen or had such a quiet tame bird, so its sad to not hear him speak and whistle to himself anymore
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any other insight or suggestions would b great cheers
