From:
"Jeff"
Date: 2006-12-12 04:39:53 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Insulinoma and adrenal surgery for Neo - perplexing problems
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Thank you for the help, Julie, as well as thanks to several others who offered some good insights. Neo had his best day in a long time today. It's been a week since his surgery for removal of a pancreatic tumor and his left adrenal. He had been slow to come around, as his ulcers were flaring up and his BG levels remained very low (in the 30's). Two things seemed to combine to make him feel great today: He is back on pepcid (he had previously been on liquid famotidine), and the other thing is that he switched from Azium to Prednisolone (15 mg/5 ml). After just one dose of 0.3 ml of the prednisolone he looked like a new boy. About 3 hours after the dose he was more full of energy than he has been for about 2 months. While the vet and I are concerned that he may still have many small tumors in his pancreas that are causing the low BG, it is encouraging to see that with the Prednisolone and the carafate and pepcid for his ulcers, he can enjoy life again. I am cautiously optimistic that this combination can work for the forseeable future.
I just got the Freestyle Flash BG meter and will test his BG every few days. He goes back to the vet later next week to be checked, and probably scoped for a possible foreign body in his stomach. The vet felt something soft and movable in the stomach as he did some exploration while in there for the other surgeries, but he felt it best not to cut the stomach open at that time. It is possible that the foreign body, which he said was about the size of his thumbnail, could be the cause of the ulcers, or at least the ulcer-like symptoms. He feels that going in with a scope is the least invasive way to try to figure out what it is, and if it's causing Neo's nausea and acid reflux.
Jeff
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