From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-10-21 19:20:04 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Swollen Prostate
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
We've had the opposite results and had the surgery be curative.
It depends on many factors:
1. How completely the infected gland can be removed
(not always possible if grown into other structures)
2. How much adrenal tissue remains if not all can be removed
3. How much that tissue regrows if now all can be removed
4. If the other gland is diseased but it wasn't spotted
5. If the other gland becomes diseased
6. How good the surgeon is
I know of no reason to NOT give monthly Lupron afterward, and
other meds may also be useful. I think there is at least one past
post from Dr. Murray on using Propecia in this way.
Final paragraph in
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG6795
says
BEGIN QUOTE
As for giving finasteride to prevent prostate problems, it is a
very safe medicine even at high doses, so it might be a good
idea to give it to your males.
END QUOTE
and see:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG922
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL5607
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL1994
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG1178
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG8354
With cysts a ferret may require surgery for omentalization or
marsupialization. Luckily, Katherine's ferret sounds more
fortunate than that, but yours may not have been.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Karen McCabe" <cinnamon_sprite@...> wrote:
>
> Duey only lasted about 1 month after being started on lupron. Back
> then I believed surgery was the answer, I thought it would cure and
> there would be no need for lupron. It didn't work that way. Even
> though Duey had had both glands removed the disease progressed. By the
> time I'd decided to try the lupron it was too late. Duey's prostate
> did remain normal size for that month though and he did not block
> again. Personally, I would recommend maintaining the lupron, for life.
>
> Karen McCabe
> http://www.cinnamonsprite.net
>
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