From:
"Ulrike"
Date: 2010-04-10 13:02:24 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Ferret reacting badly to Diazoxide & stevia and insulinoma Q
To: "FHL" <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Thanks to all who've answered so far.
Andrea, I don't know how the diazoxide is supposed to be stored but I'm sure
my friend was told by the pharmacist how to store it and stores it right.
He is meticulous in this respect. :-)
Tressie and others, I don't think Willie the ferret objects to the taste.
He has also not reacted to it before, only recently, the last few weeks or
months. Willie is on pred, too, but the diazoxide seems to be helping, too,
just going by Willie's behaviour, at least in the past. My friend can't do
a BG after food because he hasn't got a BG meter. Money is a huge problem
so he can't even take Willie to the vets and only just scraped the money
together for the last lot of diazoxide. I offered to send a BG meter and
test strips but he didn't take me up on the offer, I don't know why.
Now it seems it's not the diazoxide that causes Willie discomfort, it is
anything. My friend wrote that he gave Willie some carafate, thinking
Willie might have a stomach ulcer from the pred. But then he noticed the
same shivering and bobbing after the carafate that in the past had no
noxious effect on Willie. Based on this my friend has come to suspect that
anything going down to Willie's tummy is causing pain (the eye dimming,
etc). Then my friend did a test. He picked Willie up to feed but did not
feed anything. When my friend holds Willie and Willie smells food, his eyes
open and brighten up. After a few minutes my friend realized that Willie
shivers regardless. The shivering is a bit syncopated (my friend's
description) so that Willie gets this little bursts that start with a spasm
then he keeps shivering as if cold (the room's not cold at all, my friend
keeps a heater near Willie). After feeding food with no med at all, Willie
eats with interest, afterwards he just dims and seems to be in discomfort.
The food and diazoxide feeding (diazoxide mixed in with food, a/d) does
cause a more adverse shivering and bobbing than this though. But apparently
anything is causing him discomfort. (I just rewrote what my friend wrote to
me.) Anybody got any idea? I've uploaded videos that my friend sent me if
anybody wants to have a look:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ferretlove.uk/WillieVideos05042010#
I have more pictures and videos of him here:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ferretlove.uk/Willie#
To me Willie looks so uncomfortable and I feel bad that he is not taken to
the vets. I said it before but Willie and and another (female) ferret are
my friend's deceased sister's ferrets so he inherited them from his sister
and thus they mean the world to him but on the other hand he has no money
for veterinary care.
Ulrike
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