From:
"Bruce Williams, DVM"
Date: 2007-08-25 20:15:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: update and need help for friends ferret PLEASE, could really use vet input too
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Dear Julie:
While this won't explain the knot on the face, it seems that you aleady
have an apparent diagnosis for the neurologic problems - the leg
weakness, wobbliness, and limping - the insulinoma. If the glucose was
60 after the first round of pred, then some action shold be taken, and
upupping the pred is not a very aggressive way to do it. When you have
a very hypoglycemic ferret with neurologic disease - surgery is the
best way to know. We already know pred is not going to work.
Drawing blood and only getting a blood glucose with this number of
problems, I think, is somewhat odd as well.
But ignoring obvious neurologic defects in a hypoglycemic animal in
order to look for something more exotic is extremely questionable.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, dVM
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "julie johnson"
<crazyferretmom@...> wrote:
>
>They put him on prednisolne and the leg started doing
> better, then he had a set back and started limping on it. Then with
in a day
> he started showing weakness in his hind legs, he would walk wobbly
and then
> fall over.
> Back to the vet, the did a BS work up and it was 60, so the increased
the
> Pred. and left it at that. No other blood work was done, the vet felt
this
> was the issue and the pred would fix the problem.
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