Experiences of Liverpool Uni treatment for sarcoids please?

I had my gelding treated about 5 years ago for around 4/5 sarcoids on the sheath and belly/shoulder. The vet had to repeat the course on a stubborn sarcoid. They took a while to fall off but have never regrown. A friend also had her gelding treated with Liverpool cream and her horse remained clear too.
 
Had my boy treated for one HUGE one and another tiny one. The huge one took 3 courses of treatment and eventually was shifted, it took about 9 months in the end to completely get rid of it but no sign of it at all now (it was the size of a golf ball).

The tiny one flared up under the first treatment, was treated again and now no sign of that one either.

You need patience but would definitely recommend the treatment, it's expensive but mine was covered by insurance.
 
I've heard good things as well however, depending on the size of the sarcoid, have your tried Camrosa cream? I had a livery who had a sarcoid above his eye which was growing and we treated it with Camrosa as a last ditch attempt before the liverpool treatment which is £££ and just as we were about to give up, after about 3 months treatment, it came away and never came back.

I'm not a tree hugger but it did work so something to think about.
 
measles, I read that it is better not to 'mess' with sarcoids by putting unproven ointments on them as it can make things worse if you are unlucky. It is safer to go down the vet route. Even though the vet came out many times to my boy the cost didn't seem too bad at all as it was spread out over quite a few months.
 
I have heard horrendous stories about sarcoids treated with Camrosa. As I understand it camrosa works by encouraging cells to grow, as sarcoids are a form of tumour the last thing you want is for them to grow. Apologies if this is not a correct description, but please do not try alternative remedies without checking with your vet. Should add that I am actually a fan of such things in the right place, but sarcoids are not the right place
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LP cream usually has around a 50% success rate, as in 50% of them usually grow back, not straight away or other sarcoids may develop in other areas, they only treat what is there, like other topical treatments and its quite expensive.

Also it depends on what type of sarcoid and where they are on the body, you have be very careful putting certain applications (which are meant for sarcoids) on sarcoids that are situated near or joined onto the eye.

You can also go down the BCG route, which is worth talking to your vet about, its a course of injections given within a certain time period, also have a very good success rate and is sometimes more favourable than the LP cream, although it does tend to knock it out of your horse a bit as it works with the horses immune system to shrink and stop producing more (in not so technical terms), again useful on horses that suffer from various types of sarocids.
 
i had fabulous results on my youngsters sarcoid with the Liverpool cream.

please, please, please do not put any ointment on the sarcoid without checking it thoroughly yourself and with your vet.
people suggest things like Camrosa, aloe vera etc without thinking about the cause and effect.

i tried aloe vera on my boy's sarcoid after reading about it on a forum... it made the sarcoid 200% worse.

i am very thankful the Liverpool cream still worked despite me aggrevating the sarcoid with other potions first.

Vinnie's sarcoid was about the size of a golfball by the time we used the Liverpool cream and it took 3 treatments before it fell off. now you would never know it was there.

he has developed a pinhead sized one between his front legs recently and we have gone straight for the Liverpool cream this time.
 
I had my sporty horse treated for a few tumours around his sheath, a couple o internal ones (I say internal, they were high up in the groin and had to be injected with LP cream) and a scaly, lumpy patch in his armpit.
It didn't do much to be honest other then make him horribly uncomfortable and some horses have nasty reactions to the cream which thankfully he didn't have, only the sarcoids that were banded actually did anything (i.e. they fell off!).
Given the choice I wouldn't put him through that treatment again
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Thankfully the sarcoids are all going away on their own a year after he was treated!

A friend has had massive success with an american product called sarc-off. Looking at the horse now you'd never guess he'd had tumours over his neck and belly
 
One of my horse's had iridium wire treatment at Liverpool in June 2007 after a sarcoid developed on his lower eyelid (originally diagnosed as a bee sting!). We tried a course of 3 BCG injections first, which made no difference and we couldn't use the cream because of the location of the sarcoid.

I was told it would take a year for the eye to completely heal.. Nearly 3 years on and it still hasn't fully healed. It 'weeped' for at least 18months, although never really seemed to bother him - and now it still sometimes gets slightly 'scabby'. It seems to be very easily disrupted, if he rolls and catches it or pokes his head in a hedge, he tends to take the top off it, the skin is extremely thin over that area.

Like I say, it doesn't bother him, and although it is a very apparent 'blemish' (made more noticable by the fact that he's very dark bay and the hair around the area has grown back white) my feeling is that it's better to have this than the large sarcoid that was there before.
 
I had one of my lads treated with Liverpool cream 8 years ago. He had I think in the region of 16 sarcoids. The cream cleared them all off and touch wood they haven't come back. It took about 3 weeks after the treatment for it to have effect though. The sarcoids sorted of lifted from the skin and then shrivelled up and fell off. It did leave a scar on the sarcoid on his thigh.
 
Worked on my horse - he had 3 treated. 2 worked great, but the other one left a horrendous crater when it fell off and looked really disgusting for a good couple of weeks - major fly issue and difficult to keep clean as horse has mental block about you peering at sarcoid for too long and tried to kick you! All look fine now though.
 
It worked on our horse - All 4 of them came off and touch wood they have not come back! The one on his face has left a slight scar but nothing to bad! It is costly but i would highly recommend it!
 
Worked on my friends horse; 2 different types of sarcoid so different cream for each, fell off after 1st course of treatment and that must have been 3ish years ago, no regrowth anywhere.
 
Hi, I'm new here, my gelding had sarcoids - 5 in total. I tried Camrosa, Thuja - cream and tablets neither of which worked, but made them worse. I then used Sarc-Ex which you feed. We only have one small one left now so will continue with that. I think there is a stronger product from the same manufacturers called Sarc-Off which you can only get from the vets. Good luck whatever you try - I must say I think they bothered me more than they did Tobes.
 
Tom was treated this summer on two. One was halfway up his neck, under his mane, and the other was right in the middle of his chest like a nipple
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They've both gone completely, and the hair has grown back normally.

He still has a few little warty things on his willy
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but the vet says they're not sarcoids.
 
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