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I want to thank you all for being so helpful and listening to my problems with my birdy. I actually got my parrot from someone in the parott society magazine. Never think your buying a healthy bird just because there advertized in a parott society. :-(

Hi Unfortunalty after 4 long months i got her an endiscopic which diagnosed her with macaw disaase. The vet set there was no cure and she had had this for a long time. I think my baby had this from were we got her from as she was never right from when we got her. We put her to sleep to birdy heaven today. :-( I did a lot of crying weeks ago so it helped me cope more today. It was so sad as she was slowly going mad. I have an amazon now who i dont know will ever get it. Just a question what would you do if you bought of a breeder who sold you a bird with this disease.? :-9

Hi the vet i was with was an avian vet. The one he has transferred me to is the one that did all the blood tests. We went to see her this week and still not really much help. We are going to have to give her an endoscopy now £300 and this still could come back with nothing. Because there are so many tests we could go on forever. I suppose when you buy a bird you do not realize what it intales when they are ill. Parrots are very hard to diagnose and she thinks it may have parrot waste disease. We did thing positive all along that we have kept her going. It has got to the stage in 6 weeks were she is no better and her weight is going down even more. we are having to force feed her to keep alive. In the long run i have now accepted that my fluffy is going to die. I cannot bare to see her in any more pain. her eyes are now sunken and blue where they should be white. After £1000 in vet fees still no help. All vets we have seen are top vets and i have had advice from 3 different top avain vets now. they all cant be wrong Does anyone know if parrot waste is there from when they were born

Hi everyone. latest my vet is transferring me to to someone else now another vet as he is lost on what to do as he cannot find anything. What i am doing is i am trying to upload a movie i done tonight to see if anyone knows about the swallowing issue. i told my vet about this but he find nothing but i still think its weird and this is def wrong. she cannot eat roughage. The video is a little bit funny but not meant to be you will see what i mean. I only give a crisp to show an example of her swalling and never ever give her crisps as a rule. Let me know any of your thoughts

Hi everyone also i wandered about her weight as it had gone down and the vet was worried. i manage to get her too 380 by night. then keep her to 350 - 360. fluff is a small bird anyway.

only the fact that nothing is happening when i give her madication he rules it out. its like a guessing game. he was talking postmortams the 1st time we took her there, she is still alive and now gaining wait but with force feedbing. she just does not get involved with anything, no singing no playing just food and bleeting. its very very hard as i really dont know what to do next

Hi there everyone. her tests come back negative for phyticosis. she was on the medication for 2 weeks and was really ill on it. he took it off. we have had blood tests, xrays, stool tests and there all coming back negaitve. xray confirmed enlarged liver. blood tests confirmed low white cells but these are only tests he sends away for so my vet is only diagnosing by results. my vet is http://www.village-vets.com/about.htm i was sent there by the rspca. but i have now checked with parrot scoiet and they have never heard of him. he is only one of 4 in the uk that work wiht birds. am not that impressed at the moment

Hi have no idea of what do do anymore. My baby is still sick and i HAVE been to the vets and they do not know what is wrong with her. This is so frustrating. The next move i do not want to do. I cannot do and refruse to do. I have had every single test xray blood test and yet nothig has been diagnosed. Were do i go from here. I am weening her to keep her alive. i feel she is just going through the motions. i dont know right from wrong with my baby. I feel its only force feeding her thats keeping her alive. My last resort next. biobsy which is only a 50 50 chance she will even survive and still not be able to mend her. I am managing to keep her weight gained were it was losing by feeding her Harrison food. She has had every type of medication which has done nothing. how can this be that a specialist cannot find whats wrong with her. I dont get it!

Update can anyone help me here. I have now run my bill upto £500 and guess what my vet still does not know what is wrong with my bird. She has xray done,liver enlarged. he said at 1st lead poison, came back negative, then calcium, then the big horrible one i mentioned which he put me on anti biotics and guess what its not that so treating her for something she has not got. she is no different. we give her food weening which she is eating. she is dropping weight. i mean 4 vets that only handle birds and all i have had is guessing games and still yet no diagnosis on this bird. I am very frustrated i have bill for £500 for guessing games and still don't know whats wrong. all i know is she has trouble swallowing hard things and can eat weening food. but only ever wants to eat what we have which is not good. i dont know what to do anymore. my baby is still ill at 1 year and 2 months and is losing weight and not her normal self.

Update, yesterday i thought fluffy had taken a turn for the worst :-( She fell off her perch when she was asleep but lUCKILY i had placed her against a wall next to me. She also had stuff coming from her nose which is a sign of the disease and very weak. We have come to expect the worst as our vet told us she was very ill. Today well that has been another story. I cannot believe the difference from yesterday. Fluffy has ran around the house all day and even whistling. She has not shivered half as much. I have not been able to keep up with her she is so hypo. Its really strange as i think the medication might be doing some strange things to her. She walks backwards.LOL Really today is like she is 75% back to normal and she has been on medication for 3 days. The medication will go on for 45 days. This really is good news for us and we have been feeding her baby feed too and she has gone back into baby mode and bleeting. The hardest part of this is she is contastly begging for my amazon who we obviously cannot let her go near for 45 days. I put them in same room extra but she just begs and begs for him. Does anyone have any ideas what i Can do. By the way everyone Fluffy is not even bonded to us. She chose my bird who is bonded to me. Aghhhhh. Also does anyone have a bird that just wants to eat all day. Fluffy will try and eat anything she even goes to the dog bowl. Here is hoping for another good mad day :-)

Hi Everyone, went back to vets today and he said he has seen an improvement in her. He does not know whether it is the calcium injection or the antibiotic. The problem with this. He is not 100% definite as it takes 10 days for the tests to come back and has to treat her for this with the symptoms she has and with the liver enlargement. He told me today he did not expect her to even last a few days from the way he saw her yesterday. She is also underweight too. He expected her to pick up within 2 hours after the calcium but she never she only picked up this morning which is why he is going to carry on treating her for this horrible disease. Fluffy really is like a little baby again. She has tweeted 20 times today and whistled 4 times which is a amazing improvement but no guarantees. its a 50/50 chance now and we are now getting tests done on our amazon.I think it is really strange that since she has been ill my amazon will not entertain her at all. They def since things. its been really hard trying to keep them separated as fluffy keeps trying to get to amazons cage. i have to do this for 45 days. I want to thank you all for being so concerned and helpful. If everyone could just say a little prayer to the parrot gods i would be grateful. My next appointment is not till next Thursday as we are carrying on with the course. I will update you all.

Sorry have not been in touch. My baby has been xrayd now and its bad news. He has psittacosis which is a disased liver. He also has a calcium definciaty. At 1st they give him antibiotic's and calcium which has done nothing really, calcium picks him up and then he drops again. When i went to day they have had to treat him for this disease as he is to weak and the blood tests would take to long to come back as its the weekend. bad thing is that i know have to get my amazon tested. I have to find out were the disease came from to start with. I got my fluffy from the parrot scocity book. I am with one of the best vets in the uk. The thing is i find he just has no feelings with it. i cant even afford the vet bills anymore and cant find any help what soever. the pdsa does not deal with birds. I dont know what to do. He has also been near my amazon. God i dont know what to do now. I have to go back again tomorrow and i cant even afford it. Then i have been told it can be passed on to humans great

Hi Every one back from the vets. The vet does not know exactly whats wrong with her only that there is def something wrong. He said her symptoms are def either calcium deficiency or led poison. The baby has not been near any led at all. He gave her some calcium today which is a lot stronger than the one we have. He has said if its this she will pick up straight away. Tonight we have saw alot of progress, she has started eating again and has tried chewing her leather toy. I am hoping that this is the problem. The problem i have he his saying to come back 8 n the morning for an ex ray if she has not picked up. She has picked up what should i do. I was going to leave it tomorrow and if she deteriorates to take her back asap. What are your thoughts. Also my bird is very very greedy but she wont eat the good stuff for her. she will eat all day long. this cannot be good for her. do you think i should take the bowl away as she will empty it and fill it just with proper vegetables and fruit.

I am off to the vet tomorrow and will let you all know. She was trying to eat tonight but struggled. I defiantly think its too do with her crop. She has not brought anything up but she is defiantly head bobbing. I will let you all know the outcome. Thank you all for helping me with this. I am glad there is a place i can go for help. :-) x

she is only around 1 year of age. i dont know what she weighs. i have always thougt she eats too much as she can eat all day constantly. she is also bonded to my amazon but my amazon is bonded to me. he does tolerate her but my grey obsesses with him and never leaves him alone. at the minute she is not interested in him either. if you go near her she growls and furs up. also her crop seems a little puffy if that makes any sence.