Please help urgent!!!

hello everyone

ok so i rescued this corn snake and the back end of it is fat. the person i got it off was told its a fat patch but im not so sure. there's some dried blood around her vent and now her sides have actually split and her scales are literally starting to peel off revealing a raw skin underneath.

no im not peeling the scales off, they are coming off on their own accord. and i know its not a burn, iv seen burns before. this is not.

im trying antibiotic cream and keeping her clean and that but shes not feeding and hasnt now for 6 weeks. shes a 6 ft 8 year old female.

i have booked the vets for monday but just wanna know til then what i can expect.

please help i am really worried.

DrillBit

i also realise this is not a ball python and im sorry.

Posting pictures would help. From your description, it doesn't sound like anything I've seen before.

that sounds like it is gut impacted get her to a vet ASAP!

its going ot die otherwise.

I'd call the vet and tell them she really needs to be seen today. Hope it works out!

hi thanks guys. i have phoned the vet and she is going to be seen as soon as poss.

i am trying to get pics on here but cant at the mo. i shall get pics later on.

thanks for the gut reaction suggestion but from what the guy who i got her from said shes been like it for some time. i got told by a reptile shop owner that its game over, but honestly, stuff him i dont wanna give up on her.

the person who owned it before needs a slap.

what a moron.

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Originally Posted by Drillbit

i got told by a reptile shop owner that its game over, but honestly, stuff him i dont wanna give up on her.

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That is likely the case, but I'm sending you all the good luck and hope I have. Keep us updated, I really hope this turns out to be one of those stories with a happy ending!!

I'd guess impaction too. Not a good verdict without possible surgery.
Good luck, please post pics when you can.

yes sounds liek a impact gut to me also. I say if not treated asap the snake may dye because it my rupture and become a blood infection and kill the snake fast and painfully.
I will bet that you will find shavings/ some other material caused the blockage if she makes it ot the vet.