From:
autumn_whispers2me
Date: 2005-06-04 19:16:45 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Helicobacter treatment..how long before I notice a change?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20079748.1117913860905.JavaMail.nobody@vanadium.smartgroups.com>
Thanks, Dr. Sue. If they did x rays they didn't tell us. I actually had asked the vet
about diabetes because Boo-Boo pees as much as a cat! you wouldn't believe the
size of the puddles he makes. He is really fat right now, so i don't know if THAT has
anything to do with us, but I've 'very' rarely seen him drink water from the bottle.
Most of the water he gets is from the chicken gravy soup he eats. Tocho, a big guy
but not fat like Boo-Boo also pees a lot, but Boo-Boo has to be cleaned each time.
anyway, the vet said that diabetes in ferrets is so rare that she wasn't even
considering it. But on his first labs his blood sugar was in the 400's! There were a
few things totally weird in his labs, so they re-ran them. that's when the lab messed
them up and ran a bird panel, so they got another sample and ran them again... the
very last time they ran them his levels were all basically normal, and his blood sugar
was a little high, but not enough (they said) to worry about at all.
he seemed to do better, even up until about 1.5 weeks ago. He had even begun to
go to the kibble dish and eat. But then.. he started getting lethargic, etc. again.
It could be pure coincidence, but he became sick right after Hurrican Ivan hit. We
were without power for a little over two weeks. During that time we had to wet the
fuzzies down once in a while to keep them cool, and keep baggies filled with ice
cubes, placed inside socks, to put in the cage with them. It was cloudy and cooler
than normal following that storm, even almost two weeks later, so I don't "think"
they got overly hot. But maybe that caused enough stress to set off the ulcer
problem? It was also around that time that we got Peanut and Tocho---so that's
added stress too?
The last confusing thing: we just said to heck with it today and let them run amok
in the house. Boo-Boo seemed contented to tear apart the underside of our bed..
lol... but.. he was dancing, goofing off, way happier than he's been in a while. They
don't normally get this much time to play in the entire apartment (because of the
dogs, etc.), so I don't know if that has anything to do with this.
and.. his glands, the ones on the sides of his neck look swollen now. He's really,
really fat, so the fat pads on top I'm sure are thick.... but I don't know. I guess I
could take a photo and upload it. and... his fur has gotten really yellow.
I know that's a lot of info, and probably very confusing the way I wrote it.
Sue Liszewski <suedvm96@hotmail.com> wrote:
You talk a lot about blood tests and urine but no mention of x rays?