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Originally Posted by Ellie May  I agree. It can give a better idea. But it can be interpreted according and the lab will tell the vet if it was lipemic, etc. Certainly not a bad thing to do, but not necessary either in most routine cases.
That is probably what I'd do if we went to the vet in the morning, but we usually go at night. Not going to fast her all day when her vet doesn't have a problem with me feeding her.
BTW, I don't fast for bloodwork either. |
you don't? I go to an internal medicine specialist myself now lol thanks to Dexter as I pay for best insurance so might as well take advantage of it. Plus this woman is great. I really like her. She always has me do 12 fasted blood work when i get blood work. My mom is type 2 diabetes and has to get blood work all the time and her doc always says fasting too. My dh doc also always has him do fasting too.
I always schedule first thing in morning blood draw for mine. Dee Dee I have to give soloxine then blood draw has to be 4 hrs after for her hypothyroid as they have to test with soloxine in her system so that is a tricky day
The fasting helped to know dex had high triglycerides with no food which could be tied to why he had pancreatitis yet my other two did not. You might want to do that next time as would be interesting to see if her triglycerides were high at fast as well since she has pancreas issues