From:
Caitlyn Martin
Date: 2005-02-27 23:19:15 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Insulinoma
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <28724842.1109548212758.JavaMail.nobody@magnesium.smartgroups.com>
Hi, Gina, and everyone else,
First, I agree with everything Mike has posted.
We had a ferret, Ker Avon, who was diagnosed with
insulinoma when he was three years old. He didn't
respond well to pediapred (prednisolone) and had two
seizures when his blood glucose fell to incredibly low
levels (measured at 27 and 19!). He had surgery and
never had a problem again. It was lymphoma, not
insulinoma, which eventually killed him.
Podo and Kodo were diagnosed with insulinoma at ages
seven and a half and almost eight respectively. Each
had one surgery, each had symptoms later in life but
never a seizure. It was lymphoma that got them too,
but in extreme old age (9.5 and just around 10).
Lady Ayeka also had classic insulinoma symptoms when
she was diagnosed at age four. She had one surgery.
She never had a seizure at all. She was a few weeks
short of her seventh birthday when she died and once
again insulinoma had nothing to do with it.
Four ferrets, all living two to over three years with
the illness, only one ferret had seizures and that was
before surgery.
Might Bob have a seizure someday? Maybe yes and maybe
not. You just don't know. Like Mike says, be ready
for it just in case and hope you never had to see one.
All the best,
Caity and the fantastic five