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Post by Corvidophile on Feb 13, 2022 19:42:58 GMT -5
More crazed wandering tonight culminating in a barf, reducing the melatonin back down to 0.5 as that’s the only thing that’s changed.
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Post by Corvidophile on Feb 14, 2022 18:24:16 GMT -5
d*mn I forgot to reduce the melatonin today and accidentally gave him 0.75 mg again. Hopefully he behaves ok tonight. Anyway $200 later and he’s implanted again.
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Post by Charlie on Feb 14, 2022 20:06:36 GMT -5
How long does Winnie do this crazed wandering for? And what does he do after he has finished the wandering?
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Post by Corvidophile on Feb 15, 2022 9:08:37 GMT -5
If I let him go until he’s exhausted, he takes about 15-20 minutes and then lays on the floor panting, sometimes retches and drools and paws at his mouth. I catch him after I’m done washing the syringes and put him on the couch with me and he usually stops. Sometimes he’ll hop down from the couch and continue running around, I let him go for another minute to make sure he wasn’t hopping down to pee or poop and then put him back on the couch and he settles.
He was mad last night from the implant (it was at six, half hour drive home, then I immediately medicated him) so I can’t tell what was setting him off, and he was bleeding at the injection site and I didn’t want blood on the couch, so I just gave him dinner early and shut him in the cage for the night. He raged a little bit after finishing eating and then went to sleep, and was normal this morning.
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Post by Corvidophile on Feb 15, 2022 19:56:34 GMT -5
Remembered to drop down to 0.5 mg melatonin today and he was good.
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Post by Charlie on Feb 15, 2022 20:48:25 GMT -5
Sounds like he is trying to throw up. My ferret sometimes does that too. He doesn't do that often. I'm not sure why but either he eats too fast or a fur ball or something then throws up. He will paw at his mouth sometimes too. So Winnie's tummy is upset.
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Post by abbeytheferret6 on Feb 17, 2022 9:14:58 GMT -5
I am so sorry about your little guys health.
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Post by Corvidophile on Feb 24, 2022 17:56:47 GMT -5
Hair growth update, more subtle but there’s increased length and more white undercoat hair. Progress is slowing down so I’m upping the melatonin to 0.75 and the pred to 0.3 to compensate, I’m ordering a larger quantity of diazoxide and when that gets here I’ll up that to 0.3 and the melatonin to 1 mg.
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Post by Charlie on Feb 26, 2022 20:04:19 GMT -5
Winnie is starting to look like a fuzzy again!! LOL Comparing this picture to the one on page 14 is a huge difference!!
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Post by Corvidophile on Mar 1, 2022 16:39:15 GMT -5
He’s sprouting fur on his belly now too, last picture of his belly is on page 12 for comparison.
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Post by Charlie on Mar 1, 2022 23:15:25 GMT -5
That's awesome!! His fuzz is coming back. That bulge on his one side looks like he has an enlarged spleen. Typical of ferrets unfortunately.
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Post by Corvidophile on Mar 2, 2022 18:57:46 GMT -5
Yeah, the vet noted that in a physical years ago. It hasn’t gotten much bigger since then and is soft, so he wasn’t that concerned, and his blood work came back fine, no extra white blood cell production, so it seems to be under control. I don’t know why their spleens grow.
More diazoxide came in the mail today, so I increased the dose to 0.3 mg tonight. Tomorrow I’ll increase the melatonin, so far no more crazed wandering after increasing both the pred and melatonin last time. In the morning he retches after meds about half the time and I have to give him more cream to swallow it back down, at night he’s fine lately. Which is the opposite of what I’d expect, as he eats a big meal before meds in the morning and at night the meds come before the meal does.
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Post by unclejoe on Mar 2, 2022 21:36:07 GMT -5
make sure he gets a daily hug from unclejoe
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Post by Charlie on Mar 3, 2022 18:57:14 GMT -5
Glad the odd wandering has stopped. Winnie is doing a great job hanging in there. Give him scritches from me too.
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Post by Corvidophile on Mar 14, 2022 16:01:13 GMT -5
Went to the monthly vet visit today. BG was taken twice because it was so high the first time: first he got 124, then 103, six and a half hours after food and meds. He gets nauseous some mornings and I have to chase him down with a saucer of heavy cream to lap up to stop it. Vet doesn’t believe it’s the medicine’s effects doing it, just the bitter taste. Says instead of giving him cream afterward I should mix it into the dose, or use baby food for the same purpose. I’ll try it, who knows! Here’s the fur update: A little more on his shoulders and belly.
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