Please Help!
My little Casta has this nasty disease and I'm so worried about her! I noticed it really early, luckily she's normally so greedy and demanding that I noticed when she didn't come down for supper and had her down the vets before I could give any firmer discription of her symptoms that "she's not right".
She's started on Lapizole (as has her cage mate) and we're syringe feeding her as much as we can. Since being at the vets her head tilt has become noticabley worse and she's clearly dizzy as she perfers to be lying down but she is able to hop around very well, appears to be able to see but seems much more nervous so I don't know if this has deteriated any also.
We've seen her nibbling on a few bits of hay and spinich leaves and she will drink from the bottle if we offer it to her. We have no idea how much she's eating as she's having to share with her cage mate due to space and water bottle availabilty.
It's been less than 72 hours since her first dose of medicine so I'm not expecting her to be cured but should her head tilt have got worse? Is it normal to have to syringe feed them for quite some time? The vet only gave me one packet of feed so I assumed it would only be a day or two.
I will do what ever Casta needs but I just want to know there is hope and what sort of time frame I can expect to see results.
Any advice of words of comfort will be gratefully received! x
My little Casta has this nasty disease and I'm so worried about her! I noticed it really early, luckily she's normally so greedy and demanding that I noticed when she didn't come down for supper and had her down the vets before I could give any firmer discription of her symptoms that "she's not right".
She's started on Lapizole (as has her cage mate) and we're syringe feeding her as much as we can. Since being at the vets her head tilt has become noticabley worse and she's clearly dizzy as she perfers to be lying down but she is able to hop around very well, appears to be able to see but seems much more nervous so I don't know if this has deteriated any also.
We've seen her nibbling on a few bits of hay and spinich leaves and she will drink from the bottle if we offer it to her. We have no idea how much she's eating as she's having to share with her cage mate due to space and water bottle availabilty.
It's been less than 72 hours since her first dose of medicine so I'm not expecting her to be cured but should her head tilt have got worse? Is it normal to have to syringe feed them for quite some time? The vet only gave me one packet of feed so I assumed it would only be a day or two.
I will do what ever Casta needs but I just want to know there is hope and what sort of time frame I can expect to see results.
Any advice of words of comfort will be gratefully received! x