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MightyPython
at Tue Mar 16 17:40:58 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by MightyPython ]
Well, I told you guys yesterday about the symptoms my BP has had(mouth breathing at times, nose rubbing, head tilted up in the air a lot) and some of you brought up that it's probably a RI.
Well, I took him to the Vet today to have him checked out. Well, he did all the standard stuff I guess. Opened up his mouth and took a good look at the windpipe, and the inside of the mouth in general. Then he felt the body and checked a bunch of different places with his stethoscope, Listened to his breathing, etc. Well, according to him, their is nothing wrong at all with him. He said that he didn't hear any wheezing or see any bubbling. He said he didn't see any evidence of a RI and told me that he looked very healthy and that I must be taking very good care of him. I asked him what might be causing him to do all that stuff and he said it's a possibilty that just the overall conditions in my tank maybe need some changing and my BP is reacting in those ways because of it. He said The tank could be too warm and that's why he's doing those things and to make sure my gauages are reading accurately. Plus, he told me that I need to start giving him supplements since I told him that I just feed him the rats/mice and that's all I do.
Does all of that sound strange to you guys? I've always heard a lot of you on here say that a BP should be able to get all the vitamins he needs from the rat or mouse. Did he mean to try and give him supplements if he's not eating? The doctor was foreign so I did the best I could to understand what he was saying.
And I noticed that after I got home my BP started doing those things again. He doesn't do it continously but he'll crack his mouth open for several or more seconds and then stop. Plus, I tried to listen to him breathe right after I got home and I thought I heard a couple of little noises. Plus, he tends move his mouth around like their is something in there. Now, I looked with the doctor and it looked clear to me too! At the time we looked I didn't see any problems either! Any ideas and what this could possibly be? I am so puzzled over this right now. Could they get things like this that come and go where at one point in the day they are clear and another point they clog up a little?Sorry for the extreme length in this post and thanks for reading.
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 Took my BP to the Vet today.............sorry, kinda long. - MightyPython, Tue Mar 16 17:40:58 2004
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