Message Number: SG3928 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-04-08 23:54:18 UTC
Subject: RE: insulinoma questions
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <31694470.1049846058925.JavaMail.root@scandium>

It sure sounds like low blood glucose episodes. A reading of 82 is not terribly low, but it is slightly low. More importantly, it may not always be 82 and could drop much lower at times. Did you give her anything to eat prior to going to the vet?

mike

Author wrote:
> after her third episode I rushed her to the vet. This is the part that I'm unsure about. He did a blood test and some ex-rays. her blood count came back 82 and he couldn't find anything(yet, his words)in the ex-rays.