Colic and treatment

So relieved for you. Just read post from start to finish and was thrilled to hear she's on the mend. I'm another who lost a mare to this awful indiscriminate condition and you are just left wondering why. Keeping everything crossed for you she continues to improve x
 
I'm another who has only just seen this thread and am so pleased that you have good news now. We had a 25 yr old cob mare who had an unexplained colic over 3+ days. We called the vet when we found her lying down in the field looking sorry for herself just into emergency call-out time (of course), he treated her, she seemed to improve and went back out until just into emergency call out time the next day ........ and the next day, when the vet said "if this doesn't work I don't think there is anything else I can do". She must have understood what he meant because she didn't have another episode for the rest of her life - and she lived another 6 yrs! She lost a lot of condition in that week and it took us months to get her weight back up. We retired her from that point.
My Draft mare has had 3 impaction colic episodes after eating straw (she is now only allowed shavings beds). When the vet came out on the last and worst occasion (different vet from above) she immediately said "She is too old and too big for surgery to be viable" Fortunately, she made a full recovery after a very worrying 24 hrs but I wouldn't have considered surgery for her, even if the vet had suggested it.

Fingers crossed for a good swift recovery for your mare, OP
 
Thank you all so much for your kindness :)

debsflo said:
Thats great news,i have to say after my colic experiences i did get a bit ocd about pooh....
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Yup- another poo fanatic has been born over here ! *waves*

Hopefully she will stay clear, but at least it is nearly the weekend again if I do have to deal with anything else. Fingers crossed I don't!

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how soon colic/impactions are likely to return if something more serious is going on? I guess as soon as there is enough for a build up of food in the gut, so perhaps once she is back to eating normally again?
 
My ID that I lost to colic a few years ago had an impaction 2 years before his fatal colic. We managed to clear it with tubing of liquid paraffin. He was colic free for over two years before he showed the same symptoms again. This time though he was not passing anything and tubing him made no difference. We drove him to Rossdales where they tried to shift it but failed. So he went onto the operating table. He was found to have 7 feet of intestine that had become entrapped. Luckily it was al fine and so no resection was necessary and the surgeon anticipated an uncomplicated recovery. Sadly for him, he could not get up after the surgery. Being on his back for so long had cut off the blood supply and he was paralysed. He was a massive horse at 17.2 and I am ashamed to say, was overweight, and very big boned. If he had been a smaller horse, then I am sure we would probably still have him now. It seems likely that he had a small entrapment when he had the colic a couple of years earlier, and that more of his intestine had fallen through. This type of surgery normally has a good success rate so long as the intestine has not died.
 
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