Conpacted colic - what's the longest you have known?

My boy was 7 days start to finish, I refused to let them operate on him so he was pumped full of fluid 3 times a day. There was a point we thought we'd lost him but he looked better than he really ought to have done so we persevered with him and he pulled through, it took a long time to get him fully right afterwards though.
 
We had a referral sent to us that had an impaction for 7 days. It spent 3 days on high volumes of iv fluids ( owner didnt want surgery ) and still couldnt shift it. On the 11th day we took it to theatre and operated on it and took 3 black bin fulls out of it as it would have ruptered if it had been left any longer.

In another hospital we had a referral for a gastric impaction, this horse had a laparscopy, full laparotomy ( colic surgery ). We also tried stomach tubing him with fizzy drinks to try and break it up and we still couldnt shift it. He was allowed no food at all so was on TPN as well as iv fluids, had 3 lines going into him at 1 point. After a month he was put down. He was a hard horse to nurse and the whole team was upset when he didnt make it. He was really lovely to look after despite what we were doing to him.
 
We are on day 6, surgery not an option a. Cost and b. not a great success rate. She's now making progress and inpaction is half the size and getting softer and she is passing some! :-)
 
A mare at a yard I worked at was bunged up for about a week, she was stomach tubed with liquid parafin for a few days, finally passing some large rock hard nuggets, followed shortly after by cascades of oily liquid poo that was hitting the walls!
Her tail was lovely and soft tho afterwards.
 
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