About a month ago I posted what I thought was the very early sign of an RI - a very faint nose whistle. However, the symptom first arrived after a shed. The shed wasn't spectacular, but my husbandry seems to be okay. (Yes, the last shed wasn't great, but being out of town makes it harder to keep the humidty up.)

Anyway, after about a week or 10 days the whistle apprently stopped so it seemed the shed was the culprit.

She shed again last week, this time it came out in 1 piece. But the nose whistle has returned. I hear no popping, or wheezing, its a high pitched shrill. And I see no mucus or gummy cheesy stuff. No mucus on the glass, or draping over branches to drain fluids.

The whistle can seemingly come and go in the 15 minutes of handling. It varies in loudness too. A bigger exhale (or inhale I guess) makes for a louder sound.

So did some Florida gnomes implant a piccolo in my BP or what is going on?

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She's a summer of '011 hatchling, ~28" eating small rats weekly.
I have humidity anywhere between 40% and 60% unless during shed, then its bumped to 70% or 80%.
I have a rheostat to control temps (gradient from 77-86 with 90ish basking spot) I use a heat lamp during the day, and a UTH at night (will continue this until the light bulb burns out, then probalby only UTH or ceramic heat emitter...)
She's in a 40 gallong breeder with 2 large sticks, 2 fake plants, two half logs (end to end to make a 16" long half log (and these actually cover a smaller lengthwsie cut cardboard shipping tube)) and a similar setup on the cool side (these are about 12" long and no shipping tube underneath).