u/ferretsandfrogs

11 years old
Female
82lbs, approximately 57” tall
ADHD, GAD, OCD
20mg Prozac 1x daily, 2mg guanfacine 1x daily, newest medication: Qelbree, started 3 weeks ago. 2 weeks of 100mg 1x daily, moved to 200mg 1x daily 7 days ago.

History of an eating disorder & constipation with 5th percentile weight and doing whatever we could to get weight on her. Labs came back normal at that time. Often complained of “I’m full” or “my stomach hurts”. Eats and snacks well now.

My daughter approached me this evening with symptoms of a UTI. Stabbing pain around bladder area “mostly” when trying to urinTe, burning sensation when urinating, feeling of urgency, feeling unable to empty bladder, trickles of urine when attempting to go, blood drops in urine causing pink tinge.

At the advice of the on-call nurse, we went to urgent care. Here are her urinalysis results; we’re waiting for cultures to come back likely in 2-3 days. One dose of 500mg Keflex- though looks like Cephalexin- script will be picked up tomorrow while we wait on cultures.

I am absolutely spiraling regarding the Bilirubin detected in her urine. Am I looking at something serious here? Or perhaps it’s a result of her newest medication? I would rather have the most dysregulated ADHD kid in existence over making my girl sick with medication. Please help calm my mind or give me something more direct to think about until we can call her pediatrician when results come in on the culture.

Thank you so much in advance for your time.

Vader has been with me since May 4th and the tumor that he had when I picked him out at the store (for $1 because of said tumor) has grown substantially. If you’ve dealt with tumors on your dragon scales before, what is your experience with quality of life time frame when the tumor sort of becomes… stringy? It hasn’t quite ruptured, but there is a fleshy bit that you can see flowing when he swims. There is also another one starting on his other side; it’s still under the scales.

Otherwise-

Vader is loving life. He has lots of little friends to chase around, and enjoys being tong fed since I can stick the pellet right into the teeth of the tongs and put it in his line of sight that remains. Diamond eye has progressed and he can only see out from the very bottom of his eyes, anything directly in front of him he can’t see and I’ve watched him bounce off of the pothos roots a couple of times. He glass surfs constantly, I assume using his lateral lines to navigate his world.

Pics for reference. Sorry for the quality. He’s constantly moving, and fast!

Good morning!

Could someone please help me determine if this symptom is more nausea or pain related? Volume up to hear the strange crunching noise. Side note, this is a bowl of water, not food. There should be no crunching.

https://streamable.com/qtrnob

I’ve looked in his mouth and can’t see anything other than typical old-man-cat teeth, nothing loose, rotten, or missing, no excessive tartar (surprisingly), but his breath is rank and smells so bad that the smell sticks to your hands.

Seems to eat well but does drop the occasional piece of food when this happens. In fact he just ate some food as I was typing this, but then went to the water bowl and started with the weird chewing noise again.

He has a cat fountain as well, this is the dog’s water bowl he’s been favoring lately.

He takes Methimazole 2.5mg 2x daily for hyperthyroidism and is due for bloodwork soon but I’d appreciate some input beforehand. Thank you!

My beloved betta passed away unexpectedly despite perfect behavior and parameters. Genuinely have no idea what happened to him. The tank was too empty so I had to bring someone home to fill the void yesterday.

This guy had been in a cup since 3/19. As I was looking at him I noticed the tumor on his side. “What do you guys do with sick bettas?” I asked an associate. She whipped out a sharpie and wrote “$1 Donation” on his cup. So home with me he came.

No clue what color to call him. He’s obviously dragon scale, but he presents as grey until the light hits him and reflects iridescence. In natural sunlight he had a gorgeous green shimmer. Perhaps a touch of copper.

I was going to name is Arnold (“it’s not a toomah”) or Silver Dollar but my husband vetoed those since yesterday was May 4th. So, welcome Vader the Petco King Halfmoon Betta. I know you’ll likely go blind and might have a short life but I hope to give you lots of love until then.

Just hoping that isn’t ich on his side that I just noticed. Crap.

“Look how cute my little water cockroaches are!”
“Shh, she’s about to molt, I wanna see if I can catch it on video.”
“Do you think I should set up a small brackish tank and try to raise her babies?”

Seriously who am I?

Hi!

My mom passed and I’ve inherited her cockatiel. She’s six years old and has been on a seed diet her whole life. Three years ago, an attempt to switch her to pellet was made but it started to become dangerous as she was refusing all new food.

She was taken to the vet about 2 years ago; bloodwork was normal, and the vet didn’t think her beak needed trimmed.

Looking for opinions on her condition as well as advice on switching her food over the coming weeks/months. She’s currently fed Zupreem Smart Selects Core Nutrition.

I’m not an amateur bird owner but it’s been about 15 years since I’ve had the pleasure of having one as a companion so I’ve got the basic foundation, just need a little help. Thank you!