I can answer this an proudly. And anyone can argue with me about it if they want, why? This is why. I adopted a ferret and she was andrenal [at first I was hopeing she just had rats tail] her name was Spirit. Spirit ended up going bald all the way and she had the surgery done, left side, everything else the vet said looked good and spirit rebounded, but it took her a yr and 4 months to get all her fur back, then 2 weeks after she got her fur back her right andrenal went bad and she got sick real fast, and tho she had been back to the vets she passed away. [she was almost 7 yrs old] and now theres my little Stormy, she is 5 now and the dreaded andrenal got her when she turned 3. I started her on the oral melatoin right away, every morning she got her melatonin, I watched her lose her fur, then she got it back on her tail, the swelling went down to. She is still presently on oral melatoin and nothing else, her swelling is still gone and all her fur is in and she acts like a kit, she is very active, eats and drinks good, jumps and climbs, plays alot. The implants have been known not to work and leave some kind of shell in the little bodies that can make them sick or sometimes kill them. There time released to. And then theres that lupron ontop of the implants. Stormys fur came in with out the lupron, I know oral melaton isn't a cure, and I'm sorry surgery isn't either. Stormy will be six this year and she isn't showing any signs of slowing down, she also gets a little tuna in water, she loves it, plus her regular food. People shouldn't critize other people on care and welfare of there animals. Oral melatoin comes in differnt doses too and doesn't leave any foreign objects in there system, plus you don't know what all goes into makeing these implants, oral melatoin is also time released, only difference seems to be the price. Everytime you run to a vet your lineing there pockets to pay for there life styles and then they push products on you and your paying the high cost of meds for ferrets that in turn pay the drug companys lifestyles and you go bankrupt. The ferrets in turn become lab animals. What I mean by this is they will diagnose give you meds and tell you if this don't work then we'll try this or that. And keep in mind all animals are different, what works for one may not work for another.. [Posted in FML 6983]