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hey guys, I have had my nile for 5 years and until a couple days ago she was doing great! but now she has stopped eating, and has been staying at the cool end of her cage, 14 years of herps, didn't think to much of that, but today i tried to get her to move around a little bit and she seems to have a very hard time and maybe even a little bit of a head tilt? could it be something like a stroke? I have a good friend who is a retired reptile vet, going to text him, no vet around here is going to touch a 5 foot nile with a 10 foot pole, at least not that I know of
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hanging out under heat lights burns up my brain cells!!

please do take your monitor to a vet. As thats the only way to know. About it being a stoke, thats doubtful.

You said your water was a she. That is important. A common death for females is complications from reproductive failure. Crapping out and acting like nerve damage is common. It varies from losing control of the rear end, to losing control of the entire body.

There are many ways for this to occur, so there are many different symtoms.

If you get to the vet in time. They could remove the egg mass or ovaries and you could save her. A sign of ovarian problems is when bask all the time, do not feed and are not gravid.

Like I already said, a vet will help with that. I hope I am wrong and good luck

I dont know for sure its a "she" just have always called her a her...
trying to find a vet, not much luck

lost a sav not to long ago, and on necropsy an ovarian mass was found. This looks neurological, unfortunately...
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hanging out under heat lights burns up my brain cells!!

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I am lucky to have good relationships with many local vets (have my aas in veterinary technology, but was laid off-as many of us have in these hard times) if I found myself in this situation, I would get a vet to run a fecal and be SURE what type of parasite I was dealing with, and get a dewormer from the vet, I know we did this with cats/dogs (w/o an office visit) all the time b/c so many dewormers can be bought over the counter, but I trust stuff from a vet more then a pet shop.
some vets may require an office visit to watch their own behinds, but thats what the phone is for, call around.
as for the snake itself, double, then triple check your husbandry, a parasite in an otherwise healthy animal can be bad, but if there is anything else wrong it can be DEVASTATING
on a personal note, I would contact the breeder, and I don't want to sound like a mom, but "if ya can't afford the vet, ya cant afford the pet" But as you seem that you are VERY dedicated to breeding, best of luck!"

Any of your Vets will have an X-ray machine and most likely ultrasound, you can isolate the monitor with a large towel. Maybe FRs advice is a good start
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Any chance you could contact a local zoo to find a large reptile vet?

Best wishes.