>... AND if you see the hind leg weakness and drooling, but the vet >says she does not have insulinoma, but your baby is obviously near >death...think of trying the pred. It is working here. It worked for >Daisy for an extra 3 weeks of life after being told she was not >insulinomic with drooling and hind leg weakness. Her blood glucose >was 60. This can actually be low for a number of ferts, I understand. This is always low for any ferret!! 60 and hind end weakness and drooling!! The pred worked because it WAS insulinoma. See link below (Bruce Williams site) http://www.afip.org/ferrets/PDF/insulinoma.pdf Extract... Definitive diagnosis of insulinoma is made in the vast majority of cases by a blood glucose test -- rapid, cost-effective, and gloriously simple. In cases in which the glucose level is less than 60 g/dl (normal in the ferret is 80-120 g/dl), the presence of an insulinoma is assured (even without corroborative evidence of clinical signs. If the blood glucose reading is between 60 and 80 g/dl, concomitant clinical signs of hypoglycemia are required to make the diagnosis. In cases in which the glucose level exceeds 80 mg, other forms of neurologic diseases should be investigated as well. Remember that insulin secretion in some tumors is sporadic, and normoglycemia one day may become hypoglycemia the next. End extract Tony (not a vet), Sugar and Suki. In memory of Sally and Sue [Posted in FML 5804]