Nommers 4 years female 1.5 pounds (normal weight) Recent history Sep 2013 - Diagnosed with adrenal disease. Hair lose on tail and rear. University of Tennessee blood test confirmed. Left part of adrenal gland observed larger than normal so was removed. Right part looked normal and left. Pancreas and other organs examined but looked normal. Oct 2013 - Low blood glucose suspected because of lack of eating and low level of activity. Blood glucose measured every 30 minutes after morning meal. Blood glucose reached 25 within two hours. Diagnosed with Insulinoma. Prednisone 0.5mg twice/day prescribed. She refuses take the Prednisone straight. I mix it with 1/2 cube of frozen Duck soup. I recently reduced the amount of total sugar in the duck soup by 1/2 and added 2.5 oz of chicken baby food. Nommers has never been a large eater. Recently, when eating, she only nibbles on the food I have available: Wysong Archetype1 ferret (dehydrated chicken) Wysong Archetype Burger (dehydrated beef and chicken) Wysong Ferret Epigen 90 (kibble) Wysong Archetype2 ferret (kibble) For the most part, she shows interest with our two other ferrets and she runs around and plays with them. The only time I notice less activity is when her weight has decreased. I usually weigh her about every other day and notice that she may loose about one ounce of weight in ten days. Then, to keep her from loosing more weight, I increase the duck soup to one full cube. Within two or three days she regains her weight back to 1.5 pounds, so I reduce the duck soup back to 1/2 cube. She has _never_ refused to eat the duck soup. I have been doing this since her surgery and Insulinoma diagnoses thinking it would be temporary. Now, two months later, I am still expecting the problem to fix itself. I do not understand why she does not eat enough over 10 days. It seems like she does not want any food after eating for about a week. Then she goes on a fast. During this time, I have seen her go to the various food dishes but walks away without any food. Many times she makes panicked rounds of all of her food dishes several times. It looks like she knows she should be eating this food but hopes the next dish will have something she will accept. But after giving her a larger quantity of duck soup, she becomes interested in food again. Three doctors have examined her and find no obvious cause of reduced/non eating. They offer, but do not recommend, x-rays, blood tests, and other expensive procedures but are not hopeful that the tests will reveal the cause of her condition. I do realize that Duck Soup is _not_ a balanced food and is not intended for long term usage. That is why I am looking for comments from others who have seen similar situations. -- William Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. -Robert Fulghum, author (b. 1937) [Posted in FML 8009]