My guess is that if your local vet can't get it right with the benefit of multiple medications at hand, diagnostic skills, years of training, and examining the animal, I don't think we will be able to solve it here on the forum.

I think people can give you anecdotal advice on what has worked for them but I think it's a lot more complicated than that.

Maybe your animals is just too far gone by the time you got to it. It seems to me reptiles are kind of slow to respond to treatment. Maybe the right agent hasn't been selected or you are not getting the right delivery and or pharmacokinetics( dosage, penetrance, etc..).

If the vet did not do a swab of the secretions (which may or may not be the pathogenic organism) then he has most likely performed emperic treatment based on the most common organism.

Also be careful because you can also create toxicity with all these different drugs in different combinations.

Good luck...I guess what I am saying is you have tried your best. Hope that helps.

Andy

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