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>Your results may differ of course. I treated one ferret with prednisone
>alone and he survived for 3.5 years with insulinoma and lived to be
>almost 7 years.
In regard to Mike Janke, I'm sure each individual ferret (wi/insulinoma),
will vary with his/her life span. Age may or may not be a factor. I do
know of ferrets who were 7 and 8 yrs. old, and living quality lives for
another one to two years with pancreatic procedures. Years prior, I had
one ferret that didn't make it past 48 hrs. of a partial pancreatectomy
procedure, but more recently, another male, sable ferret lived to 10 yrs.
old, and was diagnosed with insulinoma at age 6 yrs. I treated him with
a potent antioxidant supplement (listed in the physician's PDR, and
approved by the FDA), and Pred, instead of any surgical procedure. With
this therapy, Bear's symptoms (low blood glucose episodes/seizures)
decreased with time, until there were none. I kept him on the
antioxidant, and occasional Pred, but that was it.
Phyllis
[Posted in FML issue 4328]
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