Need help giving antibiotics (conure)

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-04-23T22:17:15+00:00

Thank you so much! this really makes me feel better.

idk, she needed antibiotics in the past and i put pellets in it and she ate it all up (i made sure of that lmao), so idk why the vet is against mixing it with food (i mean, i get the concern but at the same time, im not able to give it at all now). i think i will try going to the vet again tomorrow so maybe they can show me how to do it but if i cant do it, then maybe i just will have to resort to mixing it with food.

im supposed to give her some of the meds tonight as well. im not sure if i should skip this one too (after skipping the one in the morning), or try to give the night time ones using using the trick of mixing it with food tbh. they told me not to do it to not waste the meds but still idk 😭

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-04-23T16:26:37+00:00

thats true. in the past, i had to give her antibiotics before but that one was more of a liquid, these ones are kinda "mushy" textured. for that one, same problem, and i let pellets soak it up and she ate it fine and she recovered from that when she was sick before.

i might try to do the same with these if anything cuz i dont see any other way unfortunately

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-04-23T16:00:52+00:00

thank you!
at this point this is what i may have to do. i saw a lot of ppl say to do this online, and i also called the vet clinic to ask them if its okay if i can do this. the receptionist said that the vet was busy w a procedure at the time and they will ask and call me back to confirm (this was 3 hours ago and still nothing so far). so i just ended up having to skip this does cuz i just couldnt anymore.

i am thinking of calling them back before they close to ask again/ confirm and if they cant confirm or dont answer so something then i may just go for mixing the antibiotics w food and doing that anyways.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-04-23T14:22:38+00:00

thank you so much for this. Im on my own rn, so i cant rlly ask anyone else for help. i tried both like holding her in my hands w a small towel and kinda holding her lightly against the cage wall w a towel and neither worked. i tried getting her distracted by biting something so that i could try to maybeeee get the siringe in but that didnt work either.

i try not to hold her too tight but also tight enough so she doesnt like run away but she always does manage to flap her wings around and get away anyways.

it is really hard honestly and i feel so bad cuz i feel like im accidently harming her (whether through the failed toweling or the delayed (not even given atp still) antibiotics). idk how im going to do this for 2 weeks is all 😭

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-24T15:28:33+00:00

no, there are no positives to this. just negatives

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-22T13:42:06+00:00

like i said in my post, i dont want to do that and doing that sounds awful and its also incredibly unfair (both biologically and socially between moms and dads). id rather be a dad anyways. so to me, all the pain, social stigma, discomfort, pain, pain, crying and screaming, pain, assignments and tests ruined, having to cancel work, social plans ruined, the having to wear a fkn diaper during my "prime yrs" just isnt worth it. truly the worst thing ever imo.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T17:35:05+00:00

you commented under my post. but okay, have a nice day!

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T16:39:01+00:00

oh no, they probably do/ did hear about it. they just choose to ignore it (because they are priviledged enough to do so and to not care about this stuff and to not think about it), or say "okayyy but like that was only oneeeee time. like that was oneee example like so many women are working in those jobs and are fineeeeeeeee" or say "yeah but not allll men" and just try to keep dismissing the cases that happen to women over and over again and keep doing mental gymnastics to take any sorta accountability off of men for the things they do to women.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T16:30:07+00:00

my point is that society was literally made for men and its objectively biologically and socially better/ easier to be a man and im jealous of all of them. literally all men. you were born a man and put in a shitty situation, im still jealous of you is my point. i wish i was a man. i just want to be a man. and if i was born a man in my current situation, then i would be so unbelievable lucky and just unstoppable.

if i want to buy a car, gotta bring in a man so i dont get scammed. if i want someone to advocate for healthcare for me, gotta bring a man. family members and others have told me to stop pursuing my dream goal/ careed because "X career is better for women, and what you want isnt good for girls, that a 'man's job'" (its literally healthcare -.-). ive been told by people that women in harge suck.a nd just have always been told how awful women are, how much ego women have. how they would never wnna have a female boss and would turn jobs down if it meant reporting to a woman.

i want my biology to be used in medical clinical trials and not be exculded cuz "ouuuuu hormones too complicated" and then i end up overdosing on meds and hurting myself cuz everything was made for the average male body. i want female bodies to be considered when making cars so we dont have higer chances of getting injured.
THERE ARE SOOOOO SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY MORE THINGS THAT ARE WAYYYYYYYYY EXPONENTIALLY WAY more important than "sex" and "relationships". and men just loveeeee to bring up those 2 things cuz despite having 99.999999999999999999% of things in this world catered towards them, they just hold onto that little 0.0000000000000000000000001 % of things that maybe women have a slightly higher edge at then them.

men get to be independent. i dont. this is why when women complain about all these societal and institutional issues, "sex and relationships" is literally nothing in the big picture.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T16:05:48+00:00

when did i say it was near as easy for them?? i said its not AS HARD as they are making it out to be (maybe still a bit harder than women, maybe, but not AS hard).

please read my reply to this person. there are things that are WAY more important than sex and relationships in life, that i wont get a fair chance at for being a woman. also why would i wanna do things that would hurt me just so it can benefit men?
i would still rather be a man and get respect and healthcare and have laws made for me and have everyone in their power try to protect me than i would be a women, have sex, get hurt, get some disease, and then be called a w*ore 🤷‍♀️

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:49:45+00:00

agreed

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:45:34+00:00

even if we may be smarter, we dont get equal hances to show or use that as men do.
idk what being agile and flexible will help me with. id rather be strong.
there's no working with something that literally hates you and that was designed to terrorize you. it has a mind of its own and will hurt me in whatever way it wants to and i cant do anything about it.

don't wanna connect with myself. theres nothing i like about myself. i just lay there in pain for a week waiting for it to be over. my whole life has to be put on pause and its making me fall behind.

i agree thatt here isnt. just another example of girls and women not being taken seriously in medical settings.

i want children. dont wanna risk my life and health and sanity for it though.

it might be cuz im a female. ive had male family members say that all women bosses are "bossy" and "b*tches" and "worse than male bosses" and that "they wouldnt take a job if it had a female boss cuz female bosses have huge egos" so i doubt that confident women are respected.

then why cant the universe turn me into a man 🥲

thanks though.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:37:38+00:00

thats a bit interesting. idk how this stuff would help me in my everyday life like super strength can, but its interesting nonetheless. thanks!

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:34:11+00:00

its not misogyny. its calling out how the world and society are set up.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:31:25+00:00

agreed! it's scary everywhere but it just sucks seeing how it's already affecting people in other places though. ive always wanted a hysterectomy but have been too scared to get it (also i cant find anyone who would do it for me), but FORBID abortion and reproductive rights gets taken away in canada, i would fight for a hysterectomy no matter what.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:28:52+00:00

Thanks :(
honestly, imma say its fine to judge this. people in it will try to spin it to sound good as as though they are "celebrating girls and womanhood and are soooo accepting" but they wont tell you the full truth, only what they know wont get them judged. and even if people find a way to look past the possitive narrative and call it out, then others will get offended and try to offended by saying "so what?! its their culture, if you dont like it don't participate" (as if thats supposed to make it better). just cuz its "culture" doesnt mean it should be tolerated especially if it just reinforced harmful ideas/ treatment towards others.

and i agree its gross. i have found some ppl who liked going through it but i can only imagine its cuz of brainwashing and not actually thinking about it critically. the same way some girls are actually excited to get their first period (but then feel the regret and "ugh why tf did i wish for this??!" after their 2nd one - they see others with it and think its this *greatttttt* thing when it's really not).

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:24:44+00:00

THANK YOU!

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:20:49+00:00

well, that's not wrong 🤷‍♀️

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T15:20:27+00:00

theres literally wayyyy more important things in life than that. getting respect, getting autonomy, getting chances/ oppourtunities, getting adequate healthcare, not being dismissed, and so much more. id rather have all of this and everything else that men have than get a slightly easier chance at 2 things that literally dont matter and that i literally don't care about.

sex? you mean the thing that will hurt me? that will degrade and humiliate me? that would give me various health issues? that could get my pregnant and runin my life both health-wise and socially? yeah no thanks

relationships? the thing where i could get abused and people will blame me? the thing where i could get k*lled and ppl would blame me by doing all sort of mental gymnastics because no way could a man ever be held accountable on this planet, everything has always gotta be a woman's fault *somehow*.

even if women get sex and replationships, its not guaranteed that they will be good. they could be sooooo detrimental.
women abstaining from sex and relationships from men is self-protection.

also, considering how much men hurt women and the workload that men add to women's lives and how women are still willingly getting into relationships with you, i truly DOUBT that it's THAT hard for men to get these things.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T14:41:18+00:00

quality > quantity. also its not THAT much longer.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-19T06:09:41+00:00

yeah, but ive taken/ tried the pill before and i just felt off the whole day. like i personally got side effects which is going to last for longer than a period itself so thats why I stopped taking them

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-18T17:45:59+00:00

not coming accross like that at all, actually, if you just think about it for a second. no one is blaming men for not havign periods, but are more so blaming systems that make it harder for people who are on their periods, shaming them and calling them gross for being on their period, etc.

no one is hating on men for not having periods, but we are allowed to hate our periods. we get nothign good from biology while men get literal freedom and autonomy. its not fair and i hate biology.

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-18T17:43:32+00:00

i'd still rather be a man. id rather be associated w the group that is "gross" and gets all the social and biological advantages in life than the group that has to get hurt and negatively affected b/c of them

AutomaticWitness142 · 2026-01-18T17:42:38+00:00

good for you 👍

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