From:
"Susan Liszewski DVM"
Date: 2007-07-23 13:11:10 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Mojave- unusual
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I would consider surgical exploratory. I rarely do ultrasound
because it is still not better then seeing with the naked eye. I do
them for non surgical candidates. No matter what others say I have
found things surgically that can't been found on ultrasound and it
ends up costing less if nothing is found. But you are running out of
options. Also if labs haven't been done do them again, NSAID's like
Metacam can cause kidney discease and if this has been going on a
while then there may have been some prexisting issures too. Hope
that helps. Best of luck.
Dr. Sue
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Sheryl" <miwok34@...> wrote:
>
> It has been debated for some time on this list as to wheter or not
> my ferret, Mojave has adrenal disease and an enlarged prostate.
>
> I found a friend who took me to see an exotics specialist on
> Thursday who, upon hearing the signs, thought as everyone else does
> on this list that it is adrenal disease. However, when I told him
> the Lupron Depot, Melatonin, and Propecia had no effect he thought
> that was really strange and told me he'd like to do another
> ultrasound. He said that this ultrasound is state of the art and is
> a lot more sensitive than the one that Mojave had.
>
> He asked me how long ago it was that Mojave had the Lupron because
> he said it might have made the prostate shrink a little. When I
told
> him it was about 2 1/2 weeks ago he didn't think it should effect
> the results that much.
>
> The results of the ultrasound shocked this vet. Everything looked
> perfect. Adrenals were normal size, bladder walls were thin, and
his
> prostate was normal and had no fluid buildup and the walls were
thin.
>
> He was stumped. He said he sees several ferrets a day and has never
> come across this before.
>
> He was guessing that maybe it's an inflammation somewhere and put
> Mojave on .07 ml Metacam for 7 days and told me to call him in 5
> days and let me know how he's doing. He said that if the Metacam
> didn't work we'd have to try flushing out his bladder. If that
> didn't work he said he'd like to do another ultrasound in a couple
> of months and if that still didn't reveal anything that he'd have
to
> perform exploratory surgery. He reminded me that it is an invasive
> procedure and would rather not do it unless it's necessary. I've
> always agreed with that.
>
> Now as time goes on Mojave is starting to act listless especially
> for the past couple of days. When he's out he mostly lies there and
> really doesn't want to play and this morning when I took him out of
> his cage to see how he's doing he just laid on my shoulder not
> moving like he was sleeping. When I put him back in the cage he
went
> right to bed.
>
> He is still urinating the same amount and frequency as is normal.
No
> changes whatsoever.
>
> Now I'm beginning to get nervous.
>
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