From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2012-02-09 18:26:23 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Apologies, this is on Vanadyl
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>, kittyspirit09 Fleming <aryiella@live.com>
I pulled up the wrong subject line
> From: Sukie Crandall <sukie@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Insulinoma - More Info About Coco
> Date: February 9, 2012 1:24:57 PM EST
> To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>, kittyspirit09 Fleming <aryiella@live.com>
>
> Better to treat the ulcer AND the insulinoma. On that score several people have given fine info.
>
> In your earlier posts it sounded like the ferret worsened in other ways too. Was it just the ulcer? If so, then part of what I wrote about diabetes might not apply.
>
> IMPORTANT:
>
> Are you aware that in some few cases of insulinoma the tumors just stop or reduce production if they short of "wear out" (spontaneous remission which is rare but can happen), but the suppressed healthy beta cells then are too atrophied to turn on so diabetes can result? This is more often seen in some of the ferrets who have had pronounced insulinoma and then have had surgery. Luckily, in such cases the diabetes is usually temporary but in some it is permanent.
>
> I just read this:
>
>> He was on pred (1mg/2xday) from April 2011 when he was diagnosed(age 4 1/2), to December last year...then he took a major turn for the worse, stopped eating/drinking, barely moving, always gagging
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
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