From:
cyprus4211@aol.com
Date: 2003-07-10 20:58:57 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Fasting Blood Glucose Levels
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <8134210.1057870737105.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
We did a 4 hour fasting glucose, the vet said add 20. He has no symptoms of insulinoma though.
Author wrote:
> I am really confused here as to why you would have to add 20 if you used a glucometer at home? All the readings you are stating point towards insulinoma, he needs a 4-hour fasting glucose test.
> cyprus4211@aol.com wrote:
> > We did an at home blood sugar with a glucometer and it was 41 a few days ago and the vet said add 20 which would make it 61. Today we did another fasting BG and it was 46 which means its 66. Somewhere I read 65-165 was normal, somewhere I read 80, which is right? The vet insists he has insulinoma. We feel his spleen everyday and it has been slowly getting smaller.
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> Vicki L. Henderson-aka-Ferret Fanatic