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Hi, I literally just joined this forum to ask if anyone has ever experienced anything like this before because it is driving me crazy.
I have a (almost) 2 year old female cat that has epilepsy and has been sick twice in the time that I have had her. Almost 2 weeks ago I took her to the vet for a upper respiratory infection and he suggested we test for felv/ FIV because of her history and she hadn't been tested before.
They did a snap test and the vet was unsure of the result because of how the negative control dot developed. He said he's done thousands of these tests and never saw it develop before. According to the instructions if the felv/FIV dot was darker than the negative control dot then the test is positive. They were very close in color but it did look like test would indicate she is positive for both. They did a second snap to be certain and it was the same. So they drew more blood to send to the lab, which would take 7-10 days.
They just called today and said they were also uncertain of this result. He said it looked like she was positive for one and not the other but they couldn't be sure so we are going to draw more blood tomorrow and send this 2nd sample to the lab again.
Has anyone else ever had this much trouble getting results for felv/FIV before? They h
I have a (almost) 2 year old female cat that has epilepsy and has been sick twice in the time that I have had her. Almost 2 weeks ago I took her to the vet for a upper respiratory infection and he suggested we test for felv/ FIV because of her history and she hadn't been tested before.
They did a snap test and the vet was unsure of the result because of how the negative control dot developed. He said he's done thousands of these tests and never saw it develop before. According to the instructions if the felv/FIV dot was darker than the negative control dot then the test is positive. They were very close in color but it did look like test would indicate she is positive for both. They did a second snap to be certain and it was the same. So they drew more blood to send to the lab, which would take 7-10 days.
They just called today and said they were also uncertain of this result. He said it looked like she was positive for one and not the other but they couldn't be sure so we are going to draw more blood tomorrow and send this 2nd sample to the lab again.
Has anyone else ever had this much trouble getting results for felv/FIV before? They h