I read with interest Dawns' post yesterday about Dr. Weiss' work with medication instead of surgery for some adrenal cases. My Indy was diagnosed last week and Dr. Dahlhausen here in Cincinnati started him on medication Friday. I'm not sure it's the same thing as Dr. Weiss was refering to.....it's called Nizoral. I had to pick up the tablets at a local human- pharmacy (no, my insurance prescription card wouldn't cover it) and bring it back to the Doctor to be formulated into a paltable liquid. Dr. Dahlhausen said he has seen some good results with this medication....but it's all or nothing. In other words, the ferret either responds or doesn't. If Indy doesn't show improvement within three months, our next step is definitely surgery. His symptoms are a bald butt, bony hips, a lack of overall tone and a very thin coarse coat.....but NO decrease in activity (or poop). This poor guy has survived a vaccine reaction and a terrible bout of green diahrea (I hesitate to call it ECE because he had no decrease in activity or appetite....but it took weeks to get back to normal!) in the past year. By the way, Indy is a little less than two years old, NOT from Marshall Farms. I've had him since he was a little kit, and he's always been fed Totally Ferret. I've got 16 other ferrets here who are not showing any of the same symptoms. I'd sure like to hear from other FMLers who have tried medication for adrenal problems. I feel like I'm in uncharted waters here! PamV [Posted in FML issue 2605]