Two tough lumps near belly over 1 week after regurge.

[rejohnson53]

I've had my corn Europa since early June, and she has always been a very healthy snake. She is currently about 3 ft. long and a healthy weight.

She regurged for the first time on January 1. First she threw up a half-digested hopper, then threw up bile twice more that night. I believe that a mild cold snap might have caused the regurge, but I'm not 100% sure. She has pooped twice since then, once 4 days ago and once yesterday, but her stools were mostly clear liquid. I followed protocol and rested her for 9 days, but she is blue right now so she won't take any mice.

Now to the important bit. Yesterday while checking on her I noticed 2 tough lumps in the vicinity of her tummy (not sure exactly where that is). She drank some water and they disappeared. I took her to my local herp store and the guy there said it didn't look like impaction, but he's no vet. The lumps are back when I checked on her a few minutes ago.

Does anyone have any idea what these lumps could be?? Does her pooping mean that she isn't impacted? If so, might they be tumors? I'll get pictures asap.

I'm starting to get really worried. Thank you for any advice you can give!!!

 

[airenlow]

A 3 y/o female is ready for breeding, so it could be eggs forming. Good pictures will help. Don't freak out just yet.

 

[Nanci]

How close to the cloaca were they? I think, sometimes, you can feel a particularly hard ball of urates before it is expelled.

Remember, feed a mouse half the size of what she regurged. Also, you say she is blue now. I would never feed her while blue in the future. I have found a definite relationship between feeding while blue and regurges. That may have been what caused your snake to regurge, too. She may have been going blue, but you couldn't tell, at the time.