Sam21

He's had all the blood tests and work up done. Everything came back negative so far. He hasn't acted weird since it happened, has acted very happy actually. Can't find anything wrong with him. So right now, just observing him. The only way to get rid of the runny nose is drilling a hole in his head to clear out his sinus cavities, because the way their sinuses are set up is complex, but he has no infection and he'll be given meds to bring the discharge to hopefully a minimum. If it starts to affect his quality of life than we will def. do the surgery, but right now he's happy. I just want to watch for anymore odd behavior. Thanks all for such a large amount of response! I'll let you know if anything further happens.

He falls a lot

Yea, I've gotten in contact with another vet that does birds. I am waiting on them to call me back. He falls off his perch a lot, I think partially because of his chronic cold that he has, probably upsets his equilibrium a bit. But usually he just picks himself up and carries about his business, maybe he hit himself harder than normal?

The doctor is a nut-case. She's not a certified Avian vet, but she handles them anyway. The last time we took him to her we had a bit of a falling out because she was charging me outrageous amounts for things that I didn't even have done or ask to have done for him. So even after I told her what I told all of you, she asked me to go somewhere else. :sick:

The vets only just opened, only one bird vet in the area. It was 3AM when all of this happened. He's alive today no worries, back to talking and whistling and eating just fine. When he was on the floor and started flopping around he was using his wings a little bit, so I dont know if it was a seizure. I am a veterinary technician, so Ive seen seizures before, but I dont know what they would look like in a parrot to be honest. He looked so scared. I am on the phone with the doctor right now, so hopefully we can get this figured out. <br><br>Post edited by: Sam21, at: 2009/05/11 15:54

Background info ----I have a Congo East African Grey, male, about 15 years old. This is the first one I've ever had. He was born with a chronic cold that never goes away so he always has a runny nose, but its not contagious and we got rid of any actual infection at least a year ago. Sometimes it makes him have trouble breathing, I try and wipe the snot off his beak and get it out of his nostril if I can, but he's sensitive about being touched there. The problem ---- last night I hear a small ruckus in his cage, but it sounded like when he attempts to take a bath in his water so I ignored it. I also ignored him because I have been sick and could barely get out of bed. Tonight, however (its 3 AM right now - this happened only minutes ago), I heard it again but multiple times and the noise seemed very frantic. He's fallen off his perch before, but I came out of my room to see what happened. He was in the corner of the cage opposite the post he likes to go to sleep on and he was laying down in the bottom of the cage. So much so that his beak was through the slots of the bottom of the cage. When I lifted up the bottom of the cage cover to see what was wrong and saw him like that, he started flapping his wings around and kind of bounced around until he stopped in the other corner, knocking into the walls of the cage the entire way. I have NEVER seen him do this before! He didn't respond to my voice and when I reached in and picked him up out of the cage he barely put up a fight! (usually he starts screaming because he hates when I towel him). I put him in my lap and just sat there with his head lying on my leg and didn't really respond to my petting him (usually he closes his eyes and coos). I checked him over to make sure I could see anything broken. When taking him back to the cage, he attempted to fly back ahead of me, but when he got to the cage he seemed to be weak. He attempted to step back onto the guard that surrounds the cage to stop poop, food, water, etc from flying everywhere and he didn't reach back far enough so he just hung his foot out into that space for a while before bringing it back and just sitting in the door of the cage - half in and half out. He is starting to return to normal behavior...tried to bite me when I tried to put him again, chewing toilet rolls, but he just doesn't seem like he's quite right. I am going to call his vet in the morning, but I am very worried about him!! Please, any insight you might have!!!!! I need help