From:
RIErickson
Date: 2001-11-14 17:08:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Prednisone and Prednisolone --
same thing? & General insulinoma question
HI Karen:
I have a ferret that has insuloma. Brandy was diagnosed over a year ago. We don't know how old she is as she was abused and I took her in. We
noticed her walking like she were drunk and a quick blood test confirmed the insuloma. The vet also didn't recommend surgery but we have Brandy on
prendisone 3ccs two times a day. I also give her Gerber stage two turkey baby food with this as sometimes the prendisone tends to upset the
stomach. She is doing very well, but you have to faithfully remember her meds.
Good luck
Ivy
kmc627@e... wrote:
> My 7 year old girl Murphy was diagnosed today with insulinoma. She
> was prescribed diazoxide and, originally, prednisone. (Nope, no
> surgery.) Several pharmacies I called were unable to get prednisone
> (they didn't even know what it WAS). Finally the vet called a
> pharmacy and, upon hearing that they had prednisolone, said that that
> would be fine.
>
> I just wanted to see if anyone here could confirm that the switch is
> okay? (Not knocking Murphy's doctor; she's great, and I don't have
> the space here to go into how she went out of her way to confirm the
> diagnosis.)
>
> Also, and this may be too general a question -- would anyone have any
> advice regarding what I'm in for as far as caring for Murphy? It's
> sort of a general "what are your insulinoma experiences" question,
> and maybe every ferret is different, and that question isn't easily
> answered... It's just that this is new to me and I'm looking for as
> much info as possible. (Right now it's just meds twice a day and
> making sure she's eating, but from what little I've learned so far,
> it looks like it'll get harder as time goes on, and I guess I'm
> thinking that the more I educate myself now the less likely I'll be
> to screw up somewhere down the line.)
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> -- Karen
>
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