Need help Urgently

[Cazador]

Oops. You're completely right. All of the vitamin B talk, recently had me in a particular mindset. How embarrasing .
Rick

[Thamnophis]

Oops. You're completely right. All of the vitamin B talk, recently had me in a particular mindset. How embarrasing .
Rick

Nobody is perfect

[abcat1993]

Except for me of course.

[Thamnophis]

Except for me of course.

Saw that one coming...

[suzoo]

Alternative,
How is your snake? Did you find out what was wrong?

[abcat1993]

Except for me of course.

I figured that it was one of those things where it's a rush to be the first person to say it

[Alternative]

Alternative,
How is your snake? Did you find out what was wrong?

Read back to some of the prior pages.

It was Cloacaliths.

[suzoo]

Read back to some of the prior pages.

It was Cloacaliths.

Alternative, I am SO terribly sorry for your loss!!! And apoligize, as you're right, I seemed to manage to skip a couple of important pages!

[adamanteus]

I know this is a very old thread, but it's probably worth reviving anyway, just to keep such dangers in mind. (It's worth reading back through the whole thread, if you don't already know it).

I just read through the whole thread, and it seems to me that a contributing factor to the animals sudden demise could have been stress, brought on by the vets rough handling of the snake.

I have come across cloacaliths many times in the past, in many species (often brought on by long term inappropriate diet, but don't get me started on that one again!). Even when it's quite advanced (as in the photos at the start of the thread) it can be cleared by soaking and softening the uric crystals (as suggested by Rick very early in the thread). It seems to me that the vet tried to condense several days of gentle treatment into one brief visit. It must be extemely painful to pass these things...pain = stress! Patience, time, gentle massage and copious soaking can sort this!

All that said, it seems that the animal in question was pretty old anyway, and maybe couldn't have recovered from even the gentlest of treatment. But for future reference...Slow, steady and copious lubrication! Works for me! Well, not me, but certainly for reptiles I've had!

[abcat1993]

That would suck. I'm sorry, but a vet, whether or not they knew what was going to happen, killing your snake? But, I wouldn't blame them, as they have to know treatments for tons of different animals, most of them being dogs and cats I would assume.