My ball Lucy went to the vet today, she had a red belly that went away but has yellow leathery spots on 2 parts of her belly, each that are about two inches long. Her scales on the bottom of her are falling off but the ones on top look perfectly normal. Visually noticeable that she's uncomfortable on her belly. The last 3-4 days she's been drinking the most absurd amount of water. Like, almost any amount of water I put in front of her.

The vet said that she thinks it's a burn from the bottom. I use a reptile heater and it's two inches from the bottom of the tank, and it's temperature is at 90. I told her that it didn't sound like it made any sense that Lucy had been using that heater for 2 years, and that it only now randomly started burning her? She also suggested that I put a heat rock in for my ball to sit on. I was surprised to hear that because I always heard heat rocks burned pythons... But she told me that almost every time she sees a burn, the owner had a reptile bottom heater and not a heat rock.

Anyway I am very nervous, I don't want anything bad to happen to my python, she's been given antibiotic shots and a lotion that I'm supposed to put on sparingly twice a day. I was told to give her a bath, but when I did my lucys belly got SUPER red and irritated despite the water being only luke warm. I'm just nervous that maybe she's been misdiagnosed since the vet was suggesting things that I had always heard of as being big no-nos (heat rock) (putting lotion on twice a day) and was adamant about it being a burn when her heater is only 90 and had never been a problem before. The vet didn't give much attention to me explaining how much water Lucy had been drinking, just brushed it off as part of the burn.

If anyone has info they could give me to help with Lucy's well being PLEASE help! It would be much appreciated.


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