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Has anyone had their horse scoped for ulcers even if they hadn’t shown any symptoms? And they came back positive?

I’m worried my boy is an inward worrier and so wondering if I should get him scoped for piece of mind.
He doesn’t ever eat on the lorry when we go out, or whilst tied up somewhere. He really stresses when his field mate is taken out of the field.

I’m not sure if I’m over thinking it or if it’s worth doing to be sure.
 
I had my boy scoped because a physio suggested it after I'd taken him to a pole clinic with her! what he was showing as signs were things that I'd not realised could be ulcers symptoms.

He would plant in certain places when I hacked him out alone. but would happily hack in company.
he would get a bit stressy when he was tied up alone but was fine if his friends were close by.
in the pole clinic he was fine for the first 20 mins, then just got slower and slower and didn't want to do any more but didn't do anything agressive!

forgot to add, he had grade 4 ulcers.
 
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My vet practice was offering discounted acope clinics, they came out to the yard. My oldie has always been stressy and I was convinced they'd find something, plus he has melanomas. The scope shown a tiny, healed ulcer and nothing else. Just a heads up, scoping can sometimes cause an absolute blood bath, when the tube goes up.
 
You can treat for them, without scoping, if you don't want to put them through the stress of the scope. I wouldn't put mine through it again as I was there when he had the last one and it was much more upsetting for him than I thought it would be.
 
I had my mare scoped as she was unusually lazy (even for her) and her poo smelt a bit odd for her poo.

She not only had ulcers but the exit to her stomach was partially blocked by a polyp. Scoping on a hunch saved her from what could have escalated to a serious colic.

She had no real symptoms, always a good doer with access to forage, low grain diet, not huge amounts of travelling and not huge amounts of fast work.
 
We had a whole yard of 40’ odd scoped once (racehorses) and it was really interesting the ones that had them and the ones that were clear.
Some really stereotype that did and didn’t of course but then others you’d have placed money on being one way or the other really shocked us.
 
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