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Post by Heather on Oct 1, 2014 21:13:24 GMT -5
I was looking at the xray and I'm obviously no professional at reading this but if you look closely at the spine right above the flash, and between the hip joints, note that there is a lot of blurring around the spine. This is often related to soft tissue injury or swelling in that area. Did your vet take a pic of your little one on his side? This was when we discovered that Lily had a compressed disk. The misalignment was not visible by any huge degree and initially because of the swelling the vet missed it. It was much more prominent in the second and third xray we took a couple of weeks later. It didn't look like it should have presented the disability that it did. Unfortunately, for Lily, the spinal damage was pinching nerves, slowly killing them. ciao
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Post by nancyl on Oct 1, 2014 21:29:30 GMT -5
After enlarging and looking very closely at the x-ray I agree with Heather. In spite of the film quality and the rotation of the ferret, it's pretty clear there's an abnormality in the spine.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 0:26:01 GMT -5
nancyl HeatherThank you a lot for taking the time to ask your friend! I really appreciate the help you all are giving me. After I read the messages I went all tears. I'm really worried about this little guy who seems to not care at all (he dooks like crazy, is always willing to play, moves even faster than my ferrets and tries to hop). He gets dirty so easy (pee) so I keep cleaning him with towels. He uses sometimes the litter box but most of the times goes werever he is (at first I though he was just a lazy dirty boy, but I'm really worried there is some incontinence issues or similar). He doesn't poop himself when sleeping or inside his beds though. I see very little improvements, he does moves his back legs and tail. Today we were giving him the calcium medicine (the one that the vet told us) and he started to close the back legs toes and moving both legs (he doesn't like the medicine too much). I've seen one of the legs is moving stronger, the other its still so so. The x-ray is a photo I took with the cellphone. I'm going to scan them tomorrow at my job so you all have a better view, my vets also took a side one. He is too little, I feel so bad that he is going by all this. I'm going to do anything I can. He doesn't seem in pain at all. Extremly playfull, good weight and eats a lot. Im really hoping and praying that is something that will heal
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Post by nancyl on Oct 2, 2014 1:22:00 GMT -5
You might try adding prednisone to reduce inflammation in the area. It might not help or you might see a real difference in a few days. It would be worth a try, I think.
I knew a woman years ago with a young kit who somehow hurt his spine and had a ruptured disc. He was completely paralyzed in the back end. His bowels were incontinent and she had to express his bladder every couple of hours. She had surgery done to remove the disc. When I met him he couldn't walk but if you put him down with his hind feet under him he could support himself. She was still expressing his bladder. He was a big happy, otherwise healthy chunk of a boy. He was from a private breeder and was one of three brothers she had bought. I have some pictures of him and I'll post a couple to give you an idea of how he looked.
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Post by nancyl on Oct 2, 2014 1:23:00 GMT -5
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Post by nancyl on Oct 2, 2014 1:30:05 GMT -5
I wish I could remember his name. She called the three boys "the Jun Horde".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 11:14:11 GMT -5
Hi all! The scanner upper light method didn't work so I tried to take better photos of the x-rays against a window instead. I'm also adding the side x-rays!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 19:33:12 GMT -5
After checking his spine (full x-rays), nothing there. After checking everything for a possible injury (full check ups of pain, xrays, etc). Nothing (vet speaking). His hip seems "lousy" in the connection of both legs and tail, and he feels uncomfortable when the vet does the check on those. Yet both of them are getting stronger with the calcium and he's starting to use them more (he is starting to use them to climb, something he didn't do before.. but he still use them as "Sticks".. instead of limbs.. little by little he is using his back legs toes more as "grabbers"). I shared with the vet the article in here, regarding swimmers, and he thinks it looks pretty much the case (though it's the first swimmer he is treating since ferrets came to our country around a decade!). He (the ferret) is literally a bear, full of energy, full of joy, and eats like a pig (its around 3 months and going to be around 1kg!). He is pretty normal on everything else and healthy, so the only case we can think of is swimmer. I just wanted to keep you all up-date. Maybe such a weird case has seen before or either, or maybe this is one or the rare case of Marshall Ferrets which really came with a swimmer syndrome.
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