Diagnosed with ulcers - when to crack on?

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Hi,

My horse was scoped last week and diagnosed with ulcers grade 2-3.....I took her to the clinic to be scoped after she suddenly dropped so much weight and condition, had very loose poo all of the time and basically looked awful.

Under saddle she was refusing to move. As soon as I put my leg on, she sort of hunched up, swished her tail, put her ears flat back, put her head down and bucked on the spot continuely till I gave up and got off....

Im glad I listened to her and looked into it.....She is now on gastrogard, 1 syringe a day for a month before she is rescoped. she has been on gastrogard for nearly a week and has already put lots of condition back on and her poos are normal.

She was only refusing to move under saddle in the school, she was OK hacking with another horse, so I have carried on doing so as the vet said I should crack on with her excersize as normal....I havent taken her back into the school as I dont want to chance a reoccurance of this behaviour incase she begins to learn from it...

I am wondering how long the gastrogard is likely to take to heal the ulcers and therefore how long to leave it before I take her back into the school..

has anyone had any similar experience that could help?

Many thanks

george
 
(You may get more replies if you move this to Vet or NL)

I believe you can tell whether Gastroguard has worked or not within 72 hours, so it seems to have a pretty quick effect. I would try her in the school and see what happened.
 
Hi,

Thanks - I had just noticed I posted in the wrong forum, DUH! Have reposted...

I think that is how quick the Gastrogard will start working, but not how quickly the ulcers heal......Grade 1 ulcers would heal before a grade 3 ulcer, I just wondered how long that took.....I dont want to risk taking her in too soon, just in case!! I dont think my nerves will handle another of those bucking episodes!! LOL

George
 
bahumbug said:
Yeah, and do give a little thought to your horse and her pain also?
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That is quite unnecessary, especially as the OP is asking advice on exactly this point!!!


OP: I don't have any personal experience but friends in similar situations have felt that they could tell a real difference in the horse's attitude when the pain was gone and that all this happened within a few days, but I suppose each horse is different.
 
I would also look into treatment with probiotics. If you do use some for your horse, be sure the package contains billions of "live" cells, as there are many products marketed that are not live.
 
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