TwyfordM
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Odd question, but I’m struggling to find much info on google so wondering if anyone’s experienced similar with their horses?
Mysti got diagnosed quite young, she must have been 10/11. Levels weren’t horrendously high but high enough to warrant trying prascend.
She was struggling with laminitis to the point where I’d had to cut turnout right down and we had to keep her on the slightly too lean side to keep it at bay. Coat was awful, she wouldn’t shed, constantly getting skin infection/rashes so had to clip her out. At times of seasonal rises she wasn’t herself and quiet.
Then she fractured a vertebra in her neck and I decided to take her off the prascend as if anything it seemed to be making her worse. Spoke to vet and decided to give her 6 months to see if she would recover from fracture and then make a decision.
We are now a few years down the line, she’s holding weight nicely without showing any lami signs or warnings. Out more than she’s in, shedding her coat at the same rate as field mates and absolutely full of it and acting like a youngster again ... I’m baffled? ?
Don’t get me wrong I’m not knocking it ?
She’s 17 this year and still here loving life which is more than I could have ever hoped for, I love her to bits despite her being a huge expense.
She’s been on Cushcare conditioner over the winter and I’m going to swap that out for just chaste berry and a bit of linseed now the grass is coming through.
Don’t doubt at some point the Cushings will come back and start giving me a headache again!
Has anyone experienced something like this? I’m almost tempted to get levels checked just to see what’s going on ...
It’s made the hard slog this winter sooooo worth it to see her coming out of it looking so well ?
ETA - drinking gone back to normal too and no wet stable - result ?
Mysti got diagnosed quite young, she must have been 10/11. Levels weren’t horrendously high but high enough to warrant trying prascend.
She was struggling with laminitis to the point where I’d had to cut turnout right down and we had to keep her on the slightly too lean side to keep it at bay. Coat was awful, she wouldn’t shed, constantly getting skin infection/rashes so had to clip her out. At times of seasonal rises she wasn’t herself and quiet.
Then she fractured a vertebra in her neck and I decided to take her off the prascend as if anything it seemed to be making her worse. Spoke to vet and decided to give her 6 months to see if she would recover from fracture and then make a decision.
We are now a few years down the line, she’s holding weight nicely without showing any lami signs or warnings. Out more than she’s in, shedding her coat at the same rate as field mates and absolutely full of it and acting like a youngster again ... I’m baffled? ?
Don’t get me wrong I’m not knocking it ?
She’s 17 this year and still here loving life which is more than I could have ever hoped for, I love her to bits despite her being a huge expense.
She’s been on Cushcare conditioner over the winter and I’m going to swap that out for just chaste berry and a bit of linseed now the grass is coming through.
Don’t doubt at some point the Cushings will come back and start giving me a headache again!
Has anyone experienced something like this? I’m almost tempted to get levels checked just to see what’s going on ...
It’s made the hard slog this winter sooooo worth it to see her coming out of it looking so well ?
ETA - drinking gone back to normal too and no wet stable - result ?
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