UPDATE: Satin went to the vet early this morning (where they kept reading her name as "Satan", which got us worried looks until we got it corrected) and the vet couldn't find anything wrong that he could see. Mouth and throat were clear, breathing was a little heavy but he couldn't hear anything that made him think there was an RI just from listening. Stomach felt empty but normal, heart sounded good.
Her belly was pretty red though, and we explained that it DOES get red before she sheds. I don't know if it was the fluorescent lights or what, but it looked redder than normal. He couldn't say that it was in fact anything without bloodwork (which she's getting later this week), but it did worry him a bit so he sent us home with 4 injections of Amikacin (he administered one at the office too to show us how to do it; I can't remember the dosage but I believe it's 0.5) JUST IN CASE she does have an infection so we can start fighting it sooner than later. We are also bumping her temps up from ~78F ambient/88F hotspot to ~80F ambient/90F hotspot and giving her enclosure a thorough clean. We might also try getting her a different or smaller prey item to see if that changes her mind about it, but I'm torn between waiting until all her injections are done to try offering any food or trying between injection days. I'm just concerned that her being poked by needles/meds will make her unwilling to take anything and we end up wasting it.


Satin is a huge grumpy gus right now, she's only ever been to the vet once and this is the first time she's ever been "manhandled" and restrained. She was super unhappy and spend the remaining time in the room after the examination around my boyfriends' shoulders, s-curved and huffing at anyone that moved in her line of sight. It was funny though that when we brought her in the room, they had a little scale out (for small animals) on the table and when we pulled her out of her bag, the vet tech went "... Yeah wasn't expecting her to be THAT big. Let me go get the pounds scale."