From:
"Karen McCabe"
Date: 2009-05-01 22:05:43 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Behavioral Symptoms of Adrenal Disease
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "possum1213" <gator524@...> wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough, the size of the diseased gland isn't always proportionate to the external symptoms. We have seen very large diseased glands with very little outward symptoms, and very tiny diseased glands with very noticeable external symptoms.
>
Same here. I had one boy in particular (my Duey) who showed no outward signs other then being the favorite recipient of his brothers sexual aggression (his brother, of course, was adrenal). Surgery revealed a very large, cystic, right gland beginning to invade the vena cava. My vet said it looked so bad he thought for sure it would come back malignant. Thankfully, it did not.
Even ferrets without symptoms can be adrenal, and it can be quite advanced. You can not judge based on symptoms.
Karen McCabe
http://www.cinnamonsprite.net
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