A few weeks ago, I took my 10 year old, Prince, into the vets to get blood work done as I feared he was diabetic. He appeared to be loosing weight.
His bloodwork came out fine...with the exception that his blood sugar was low, which was odd...so I took Prince back in and they did the finger poke blood sugar and it was normal....SO, the vet concluded that it was an error on the test from the blood sitting too long.
Yesterday, I took Prince in to get his teeth cleaned. On the way out, the vet said to watch him because his blood sugar was high. I cant remember which it was...but it was either 179 or 197. When I reminded him that Prince had just been tested for diabetes said that it could be high due to the stress of being in the vets office.
I was talking to a GF of mine this weekend and she said her yellow lab was healthy until she got into a car accident and her dog immediately had diabetes right after that
So...my question is...should I now be concerned that he has diabetes even though he didn't test for it a few weeks ago on his 20 panel blood test?? Should I take him back in for a glucose test in a few weeks??
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