From:
sukiec@optonline.com
Date: 2003-03-06 19:12:42 UTC
Subject: RE: Distraught!
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <22325973.1046977962156.JavaMail.root@scandium>
What you need to be reading about is insulinoma. If you go the FHL home page at
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
you can click on "Complete Archives" and go to the sonic-weasel site with all of its easily searched past posts. You'll also find useful links at http://www.ferretcongress.org
in the Critical References section.
Yes, surgery, usually is the way to go.
Compounded Prednisone and even Pediapred come in varied concentrations so the way to get across the amount is to give it in either mgs or to give the ml amount and then tell how many mg/ml your preparation has. Please, be sure to put a zero before a decimal place, as in "0.35" because otherwise it is too easy for folks who are in a rush, or who have reduced vision to not be able to see the decimal point or to miss it. The best ways to know if a dose is effective at a given stage for a given individual are to closely watch behavior for symptoms and to do follow-up blood tests.
BTW, in your searching you will also find that co-moderator of the FHL, Pam Sessoms has instructions available for blood testing at home. I don't have the address handy but those URLs mentioned above will lead you to it, and it may well be in the FHL Files or Links sections, too, though I can't recall off-hand if it is.
Best wishes to you. Early surgery can actually be curative in about 60% of the cases according to past posts of Dr. Bruce Williams, and it certainly gives a lot more time than meds do according to multiple sources.
One note: I have found that estimated ages really aren't reliable more often than not, so consider the possibility that this adopted ferret may be older than 2.