Following on from 'how to spot ulcers in a horse'....

Yep. I phoned my vet and I said could we scope for ulcers because of xyz. Vet said yes, book her in. Didnt want to see her beforehand.
 
That's encouraging, I thought I might need to argue with vets a little!

Were all your insurance companies happy to pay for the scope or did u need to inform them first before?

Really hoping I don't need to use any if this info & that the physio or saddler find something :)

Thanks all x
 
I didn't call the insurers first but had a nervous moment when I thought I should have. I'd read your policy as you may well need to, or you may be best explaining that you're taking the horse in to have some pain reactions investigated and that you expect the vet may want to scope and do they want you to call them from the vets beforehand if the vet does plan to scope? My vets told me always to make sure when talking to insurance about the symptoms that you point out the pain or slowed eating or whatever, as they can get sticky if you appear to be judging purely based on behaviour rather than physical signs and symptoms. Usually we're obviously looking at the whole picture, but when people talk about ulcers the behavioural signs seem to dominate...

Don't overly worry about it. You're insured. Ulcers sound scary but I'd actually rather be dealing with them than chronic back problems to be honest. One thing to be aware of, ulcers can cause back pain because of how the horse may be holding itself against the discomfort and overusing certain muscles... and equally back pain can cause ulcers because of the discomfort triggering stress release of stomach acid. So be prepared to be open minded about this being a bit of both, rather than definitely one or the other... that way you'll be much less likely to cause yourself delays or repeats of symptoms by solving one and not the other :)
 
We spoke to vet, they said try different feed as the only symptoms we had was loosing weight and no energy....that didn't work so bloods done, came back normal then scoped....he has, well in dec it was grade two, now grade one so is on a longer dose of gastro gaurd.
 
I was looking in to ulcers a while a go I am not sure how to post a link I will have to get some one to show me If you type in ulcers in horses and on that page there is a video EQUINE ULCER DIAGNOSIS by Mark Depaolo I thought it was very interesting Hope you can find it
 
Thanks shergar, I have done the diagnosis from the video & she reacted, however when my physio did the same she didn't (she had never seen physio before so no expectations or link with riding/girthing)

Having bloods done today so hope something easy to fix shows up :)
 
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