My Western hognose that I have referenced here for months is still not eating. Here is a recap.

Female W. Hog (1 year old)
Ate every week from Aug to Oct
Stopped eating from Oct to Jan
Ate two times in Jan
Hasnt eaten since
My husbandry is fine (all my other hogs eat perfectly)
I took her to the vet 2 weeks ago
Vet said "ahh this hog might have stomatitus!"
Vet gave me antibiotics to give the hog for a week
After giving snake antibiotics i waited 4 days
Tried feeding it twice since then
I had a hard time opening the snakes mouth to give it meds
Now the vet told me to try baby food (protein based)

Its hard for me to open its mouth, but today, I managed to get a pinkies tail in it, I think it ate it ok. Heres the deal. I don't think a pinkies tail will do anything (do you??) I was hoping to get the whole pinky in there, but like I said, when I try to open her mouth, I can't keep it open. She bleeds a little because I try for like 10 straight minutes.

My next resort is to bring her back to the vet and say "keep her until she eats, try what you want".

Any advice? The vet said I shouldn't worry about opening her mouth, it won't hurt her. "snakes mouths are made to stretch", he said. True?
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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Aggro)
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons
1.1.0 Western Hognose(hets for albino)

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• Hog troubles ensue (advice needed) - turtlequest, Wed Jun 21 19:26:27 2006
• RE: Hog troubles ensue (advice needed) - tslabaugh, Thu Jun 22 01:02:03 2006
• RE: Hog troubles ensue (advice needed) - kfisher29, Thu Jun 22 08:20:58 2006