From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-08-14 19:01:31 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Insulinoma treatment & medication amounts HELP!
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F243IvhXJ4dEr00003728@hotmail.com>
How much does he weigh? In order to know max dosages you need a weight to
calculate. He may be having bouts or spiking up and down and so it does not
support well. Is he on prednisone or prednisolone? Perhaps a different
form or cortisone would make a difference like dexamethasone. Often needs
relatively high doses to work and cost sometimes makes it prohibitive. Also
it does not always work in ferrets. Hope this helps a bit and let us know
the weight so we can check dosages.
Dr. Sue
>From: cyprus4211@aol.com
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] Insulinoma treatment & medication amounts HELP!
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:40:46 +0100 (BST)
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>I have a 6 year old male ferret. He has had insulinoma for a little over a
>year. He had one surgery last September to remove his spleen, left adrenal
>gland and two inslet tumors. Last week he was on .45ml diazoxide and .37ml
>prednisolone 2X a day. We monitor his sugar at home. His sugar spikes 4
>hours after his medicine then plumets down. Like 90 at its peak down to
>50's. So to level it off we split it up to 4X a day. He also gets duck soup
>every three hours. The vet said we would probably have increase his meds a
>little. He is now on .24ml pred. 4x a day and .25ml diaz. 4X a day. Now his
>blood sugars have been constant but constantly low, like 40's and 50's. I
>know the glucometer is only about 80% accurate but I can tell by the way he
>is feeling that it's way way too low. Now my questions, does anyone ever
>split medicine up like this? I am thinking of changing it to 3X a day
>instead. Also I am not sure of the max dosages he can get. The prednisolone
>15mg/5ml and the diazoxide is 5mg/0.1ml. The vet said she believed he could
>have 1ml a day max of each. If that's the case he's getting close to that
>now on the 4X a day plan. Also why is he so low on the 4x a day schedule?
>His lowest on the 2X a day schedule was mid, usually high 50's. He also is
>very overweight and needs to shed a pound at least. We have to keep
>stuffing him with food though to get his BG up. It's not that the meds
>aren't working they just aren't working for long enough. The poor little
>guy wants to play so bad but he can't please someone offer some ideas!! The
>vet said he needs to loose the weight ASAP, she's worried about his heart.
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