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My deremensis has been on baytril for about 2 weeks for a mouth infection/abcess that was lanced. For the past 4 days, he hasn't moved, and falls to the ground at night. But in the moring, when I put him on the branchg, he strong as hell, and hangs on with nop prolem. AFTERI move him, he is VERRY dizzy, drunk-like, and is very uncoordinated. He don't move, eat or drink. he's still fat, and his eyes are good, but he's really dark. I spoke to Liddy Kammer, and she has seen similar behavior in a male parsonii after 2 weekas of baytril, and he recovered. Anyone else see this?
ooking at him in the morning, you'd be sure he would be dead in a few hours--but this has been happening for 4 days! he is surely not wasting away...weird.
Eric A

You know...that's very interesting!
When Zoe was sick (he had two URI's), his first course of antibiotics was baytril.
Every morning I'd come downstairs, and find Zoe sound asleep...and he wouldn't wake up until we put our hand in with him and WOKE him! It would take SO long for him to come around.
Then there was the one night that he went into respiratory arrest...or perhaps he fainted, which my new vet says CAN happen when a reptile is suffering from a severe resp. infection.
is colours were VERY dark while on his meds as well. He still shows much darker colours than he used to though.

I never made the connection that perhaps the medication might of been a contributing factor in those things...I just thought it was from whatever was making him sick.

People on here though told me that the meds can knock the hell outta the cham as well as the illness....so it's hard to say. I just didn't think that they meant in THAT way.

Good luck to you and your cham though....I'm glad to hear he's been looked at, and hopefully on his way to recovery!

Kim