Can anyone please help?!?

[guidofatherof5]

I must disagree with you on one thing Richard, not trying to get it off. A high humidity shed box for 30-40 minutes can work wonders. If not, hit the faucet and give it a go.
Give the snake a fighting chance, any chance.

[ConcinusMan]

If we're talking 4-5 weeks past shedding time I doubt it will work but not doing anything at all and taking a "wait and see" approach with no sense of urgency will certainly fail.

[SnakeDoctor]

Well I see we are in a house of glass and most are throwing stones… It seems many of you have had experience in this area of retained sheds, in fact so much so that some you know procedure(s) to deal with this issue. Interesting...
On with the UPDATE if I may…
Last night I focused mainly on her upper 2/3rd of her body starting off with a warm water soak and then proceeded to rub in a shed direction with a new emery pad that I first worked with my hands to make pliable for use. This took off all retained shed on the dorsal or costal and vertebral scales. For the bottom ventral or gastrosteges scales I had to remove one by one. I did one other procedure then let her rest then came back with a light coating of Mac Oil. This morning I checked in on her and she gave me a good little love nip and her color is looking better.

[guidofatherof5]

Glad to hear the shed is coming off.

Not sure what's interesting about knowing how to deal with a retained shed. "Interesting..." almost seems like you want to throw some stones of your own with that comment.
Any stone throwing done here was out of concern for the animal.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

So glad to hear the shed is coming off! I hope she turns around because she is a beautiful girl! I also hope you can breed her if she gets back to health and try to produce some more of these awesome looking snakes. I would hate to see such an awesome looking morph go to waste. Good luck with her and i hope she continues to thrive for you.

[SnakeDoctor]

Glad to hear the shed is coming off.

Not sure what's interesting about knowing how to deal with a retained shed. "Interesting..." almost seems like you want to throw some stones of your own with that comment.
Any stone throwing done here was out of concern for the animal.

Don't get offended now... I only picked up your stones and throw them back

[guidofatherof5]

I'm done.

[chris-uk]

Well I see we are in a house of glass and most are throwing stones… It seems many of you have had experience in this area of retained sheds, in fact so much so that some you know procedure(s) to deal with this issue. Interesting...

If you keep enough snakes for long enough you'll see a retained shed, knowing how to recognise it and deal with it with the urgency it deserves is a bad thing? Your vague insinuation is that anyone who has dealt with a retained shed is somehow doing something wrong, or have I misread between the lines? I was unlucky that one of my first garters was a baby with several problems and wouldn't eat and retained a shed. More interesting is that someone with 30 years experience keeping snakes didn't recognise a retained shed or know how to treat it, and then didn't heed the advice he was given. Did you, with all your experience, really think that feeding her was more important than dealing with the retained shed?

On with the UPDATE if I may…
Last night I focused mainly on her upper 2/3rd of her body starting off with a warm water soak and then proceeded to rub in a shed direction with a new emery pad that I first worked with my hands to make pliable for use.

So you sanded the retained shed off? Are you sure you haven't damaged the skin underneath? An emery board is not a method I'd be keen to try, but if the shed had been retained for a month you may not have been successful with more gentle approaches. It seems to me that you asked for advice, but you already had your own method that you planned to use.

Anyway, in addition to throwing stones, the purpose of my reply is to highlight to anyone reading this thread looking for advice on a retained shed... this is not a textbook way to save your snake.

[Stefan-A]

Well I see we are in a house of glass and most are throwing stones… It seems many of you have had experience in this area of retained sheds, in fact so much so that some you know procedure(s) to deal with this issue. Interesting...

Sure thing, doc. That's the only reason why I have a procedure. Because my snakes get month-old retained sheds every other day.

[Invisible Snake]

It is ironic that someone who calls himself "SnakeDoctor" doesn't know that a retained shed can be deadly and would come on here asking for help lol