I wanted to let all of you who helped me know how I combined your advice and changed a couple things and already have fantastic results.
1. After giving up the morning water and watching the swelling disappear, I knew that was the cause. I concluded that it may have had something to do with the heat being off for the couple mid-day hours. So I cut back his morning drink and added a night drink. I rearranged his cage and have a 90degree basking spot available all day.
2. The idea of too much vitamins makes a lot of sense, so I cut back the Herptivite to once a week. I am using the Miner-All I one day a week also, and supplementing with RepCal Calcium w/ D3 the rest of the days.
The swelling under the neck has dissappeared completely and his lip is closed up as well. Most importantly, if i'm not mistaken, his front legs are getting stonger by the day. Hopefully he continues to improve and can be tip top soon.
Thanks again for all of your help. I post occasionally in a lot of the forums and this was the most helpful forum I have ever posted in!
