Message Number: SG13761 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 02:29:37 +0100 (BST)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: RE: Weakness and dizziness
Message-ID: <7912912.1115342977677.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> For the last few months she seems to have been getting dizzy spells which last for a day or so and then she gets back to "normal". Last night she walked around the room a couple times and then flopped on the floor as if she had no more energy.
I would not write this off to old age. Sounds like low blood glucose. It would not be unusual for her to have insulinoma at that age. In fact, I think it is fair to say that it would be unusual for her NOT to have insulinoma at her age.
mike
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