Help: Advice On Very Sick Leopard Gecko?
Posted on 28. Jan, 2012 by admin in abs news
My 7 yr old leopard gecko started getting a bulge on his head 2 months ago. After researching and realizing it was a cyst, curable by a visit to the vet, we made the decision and $200 later we left the vet, cured. Or so we thought. He had only begun eating again when another cyst showed up. That was about a month ago and he hasn’t been eating since. We’re not able to afford another vet and we are all discouraged that the cyst came back. We’re doing our best, force feeding him mealworm mush with vitamins (he won’t eat live ones at all), giving him baths and waiting on him in any way we can think of.
The cyst has grown. He’s now blind with a foggy eye and one eye almost completely shut. He is looking thin and weak, and with time he’s looking worse. I love him and to see him slowly die is killing me. I don’t want to give up on him, but keeping him alive is also almost selfish if he’s in pain and dying slowly.
Should we keep up our efforts? Is there anything else we can do? Or should we look into putting him to sleep? Simply stopping everything and letting him starve isn’t an option, but I don’t even know if vets put geckos to sleep, or even how much money that would be. I’m extremely torn up.
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Daniel
28. Jan, 2012
well this is hard! working at a vet clinic i know how expensive it can get!!!!! and i feel for you! ok so there is not mush you can do at home to get him better! and as far as it coming back you can almost say if you took him back it would simply happen again and again! and as for trying everything i commend you! maybe use crickets instead of the meal worms only because they are a lot easier for them to digest. but other than that you are doing all you can! and ok we do not put them down and we don’t even have a price for it! but as a reptile owner for more than 20 years i have found that the best nicest, most humane, most pain free way to put any of my sick and dieing reptiles down is to put them in the freezer! in my mind they are cold blooded animals, so i figure their metabolism slows down and then they just pass on in a dormant state! proven… no! but when i have had to do this they animal i put in the freezer was in the same place when i got them out, the plastic bags i put them in were not torn, so to me there was no struggle! well good luck and im sorry your baby is sick!