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Originally Posted by Ellie May

Ellie had her wellness check the other night and the vet just called.
Her ALT, BUN, etc. are normal. Her urinalysis and T4 are perfect.

Her lipase is up to 907 (high normal is 750). She did have pancreatitis and apparently it may have gone chronic. We will do more blood testing now and probably lower the fat in her diet.

Now to what really concerns me.
Her hemoglobin is up slightly which the vet isn't really concerned with.
Her platelets are 94,000 when they should be between 164,000 and 510,000. There could've been an issue with the blood sitting around and going to the lab and the people at the lab said the platelets looked okay, but this may not be good. Something else that is crossing the vet's mind is that Ellie took a long time to stop bleeding after her blood draw the other night. She wants her rechecked in less than a week.

Her titers aren't back yet but I told the vet that I am refusing all vaccines until the CBC is normal. With low platelets we have to start talking about tick-bourne illness (she went down South this year but I saw ZERO ticks on her) and immune mediated diseases. It may not be this because I think the vet said hemoglobin usually drops first if that were the case but we just don't know.

Now Ellie is sick. She threw up last Friday and then seemed fine. A couple days ago she started getting diarrhea and still has it. She has had a bit of a cough but nothing major. The vet is going to be out of town for a couple days and said if she gets worse, go to our back-up vet. It sounds like she is concerned.

I can't believe we might have more problems.

We are just hoping that the CBC will go back to normal and that a diet change will bring the lipase down.

I would recommend having dr. jean dodds at Animal Blood Bank and Restore Health Cente review blood work as well as she has been studying blood for 42 years. If your baby was not real sick going in to vet and just a wellness check then treat the dog not the blood work -- lipase is not accurate for pancreatitis at all - i had a yorkie that had it and only if amylase and lipase are both elevated would it be cause for concern but even then not very accurate at all only cpli and tli are accurate for pancreatitis so that does not worry me at all-- has a pre and post bile acid ever been done to rule out mvd since a yorkie as my dd has elevated lipase like yours about the same number and jean dodds was not concerned at all about it. She does have mvd which is not a big deal as dd is just on a low protein diet. The platelets being high is from stress of blood draw i learned but low could be like she said sitting around. I know the globulins being high is due to gum disease or periodontal disease -- not sure on hemoglobulins-- have jean review it as she is the person i trust most with blood work as she is a pathologist and endicronolist who studies blood and she will not charge you much i am sure -- she is very nice -- if just slightly elevated i would not stress too much if she was fine before vet visit.