In may I posted Safi had "mild mechanical laminitis" he got over it quickly, with diet, trim and rest and my vet said "I dodged the bullet" should be grateful it wasn't anything else.
message #97260 subject: laminitis If you want to read the backround. I insisted on blood work, she never got back to me with the results and since he was symptom free I didn't persue it. In late August right after a trim he came up sore again, at first I attributed it to the trim when it lasted more than a couple days I found a new vet. We did xrays, luckily no rotation just "mild deviation" finally got the results from the original blood work his insulin level was off the charts! IR POSITIVE. We also did another run of blood work CBC to check liver, etc... I've been getting a lot of help from the IR Cushings yahoo group and the Founder group but wanted to give you all an update and run one more thing by you. When we did the CBC blood test we saw that Safi's BASOPHILE (white cells) are very high. The vet suspects some kind of allergy and wants to put Safi on antibiotics more as an antihistamine than to kill infection. I'm putting it off till we get his diet under control. But... I wonder if Icelandics naturally have a higher Basophile count. Anyone have any experience with it? Thanks, Janine -n- Safi Berthoud, CO
