Cushings/Lami

[Britestar]

For those of you out there with Cushing Horses. Is it inevitable that a Cushings horse will get Lami, even if they've never had it?

26yr old horse, diagnosed with mild Cushings, never had Lami and is doing really well on Pergolide.

Just wondering if it will happen regardless of treatment.

Cheers

 

[brighteyes]

That's a very good question!

If it has been avoided so far, there's a good chance that it won't. Since most horses (according to my vet and some studies) have some form of pituitary enlargement after the age of twenty and many well before that

I'd bet that the majority if not all of those around 30 have the potential to be non-typical Cushing's sufferers. Since not all the symptoms of Cushing's are evident in many horses and ponies, who is to say the hairy oldies without laminitis are the lucky ones who have avoided this particularly dreadful element?

They do reckon that laminitis will ultimately get those Cushing's ponies who do have laminitis

unless something else does first

Keep on with the Pergolide and other management strategies just in case!