packwood
Well-Known Member
I seem to have spent a fortune on lab tests lately for a pony who had slight but persistent laminitis (or did he??) . I am not happy to pay for test which I did not ask the vet to do - nor for tests for which the results seem so impossible that they cannot be right. The pony tested at 1330 pg/ml by one lab for ACTH and absolutely normal with another. The first vet wanted to shoot the pony because he said the result was irrefuteably Cushings and he ahd no furture with levels that high. The second vet is happy that there is no underlying problem. Who is right? How do I trust any lab test now? Should I be parting with thes often huge sums of money for unreliable tests?