Hi.  Am sending this to both FML and FAIML (the adrenal/insulinoma list
I moderate), since I just got a FAIML list out yesterday and would like
feedback sooner.
 
Please, if anyone has a ferret-experienced vet (not an exotics vet that
occasionally sees ferrets) they can recommend ASAP around the Kenner LA,
70065 area, send info soon.  I've been corresponding with a man who has had
many tests run on a ferret and it has been sent home still stumbling and
weak with the comment that it should get slowly better.  It was treated
with prednisone (probably injectible from the cost - really high) for a
spinal injury, though nothing turned up in x-rays.  Apparently the vet said
it was doing better at the vets, which may indicate insulinoma since it got
pred, but only a vet can say.  I've asked if a fasting blood glucose was
done, but as far as I can tell it wasn't, nor an antibiotic tried (amoxi
has spontaneously "cured" a few of these mystery illnesses where weakness
was involved - nothing showing in x-rays or through blood tests - for our
guys, who apparently had bacterial infections which really waylaid them.
While antibiotics should never be prescribed lightly, we've tried them as a
last resort at times and, to vast relief, got stunning results.)
 
I have a hunch what may help here is a ferret-experienced vet, but at least
a second opinion couldn't hurt.  I'll forward all info to the gentleman.
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Lynn McIntosh and the Five Fur Crits
[Posted in FML issue 3078]