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my rat is suddenly ill and possibly dying

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Question
hello
i have a fancy rat who is one year and 5 months old. id say 2-3 days ago i had her out and she was bouncing about and licking me and happy. today i went to feed her and i noticed her food and water from the day before was still there. i remembered that i had cleaned out her water and food from two days ago because it went untouched also. then i realized i dont remember her moving from the exact same spot for a while. i got scarred and started calling "maggie" and she came to me. but very slow and labored. i picked her up and was suprised to feel her spine, chest, and collar bones through her fur. i put her on my shoulder and she didnt move. i put her down in her glass part of her cage. i tried giving her food. her food didnt work so i gave her a grape which she half ate and a cheerio which she ate but she refused to eat any more. i tried holding her water bottle up to her mouth. she took a couple sips but kept moving her mouth away. i put in a water dish and held her to it but she wouldnt do anything. so i let her be and watched her walk but dragging her paws and her whole body. then she got "hyper" because she starting walking in circles and then running into her cage. i picked her up and her heart was going FAST like even smaller of an animals heart would. i put her on the ground to see if she would play and she flopped over on her back and wouldnt move. shes having trouble keeping her eyes open. then i put her straight and she tried walking but with a lot of struggle. she couldnt walk straight and kept falling over. when i picked her up she was very limp. i put her down, she went to the dark corner of the closet and curled up. then she started having seisures i suppose. i picked her up and held her, trying to talk her outta it or something. i put her back down and she did the same thing with the closet. ive left her there now for about an hour. im scarred to move her. last time she was still alive when i thought she was "gone". she has bled from her vagina a couple times before, but not in months and it was very, very diluted. shes never had ANY problems before. her fur, tail, skin, teeth, eyes, feet, nor anything look or feel different. except for the rapid weight loss. im aware she might just die today, im not going to try helping her any more because i dont want to make her suffer. but i want to know what you think went wrong.

Answer
When she bled from her vagina, what did the vet say caused it??

REVISED:


Here is what you were looking for. Your rat was seriously ill, and in need of a vet.  There were too many things to be wrong with her for someone that cannot examine her in person can possibly say is wrong, which is why I hoped she had seen a vet. Not once did you mention vet care and now your saying to me she had antibiotics for 8 days. Why didnt you say this in your message?  This was dated the day you said she died.

I am not sure how you expect help when you went from her having seizures to her heart pounding and blood coming from her vagina all at once. Your rat was dying, like you said, and should have seen a vet long before writing to me.

You yourself said you are not going to try to help her any more. What kind of statement is that?  She should have been RACED to the vet the same day she got sick, not two days later!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please do not condemn me for the passing of your rat.  Getting early treatment is key to possibly saving a very sick rats life.
Nothing I can do from the computer BUT SUGGEST A VET!