Several months ago I posted with pics of my sunglow boa that looked like it had swollen hemi penes, and antibiotics didn't help so the vet went in and removed an abscess just south of the hemipenes and put back on antibiotics, this seemed to make it better for a little while, then it starting to look like he had a marble on the side of his tail so I had to go back and he had to lance it and flush it and put back on antibiotics, at this point it get even better, well it started to get bad again about 3 weeks ago and I saw some discoloration in the area and scratched it and a little pin hole opened up and squirted out a milky fluid, that smelt like musk, so off to the vet once again, he looked at it squeezed out a bunch of puss and put him back on antibiotics, he's still on antibiotics but I'm back to the vet because it is still extremely swollen looks like there's bruising from the swelling, the little hole is bigger and kinda black and smells like musk/dead flesh, so I'm thinking necrosis is starting to set in. during this process I have been rinsing/flushing it with a betadine solution.
I had a Suri RTB pass on me completely unexpected a month before this started and it's really getting me to think about getting out of boas, here's a pic of the guy when it first became noticable
Zack
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Zack Greens Reptiles
