Getting over the counter meds for horse!

LIZ66 said:
Just please be careful treating eye conditions with anything if horse has not been checked by a vet. A friend did this and when she eventually got the vet out to have a look the horse had a nasty scratch on his eyeball. Luckily the drops she had used hadn't caused complications, but if left untreated for any longer the vet said the horse may have gone blind in the eye.
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Yes eyes are delicate things. I have been speaking to my vet and she is happy with what I am doing and confirmed that the eye drops that I am using is just what she would prescribe anyway. Thankfully his eye looks much better but if it isn't 100% by Monday or starts looking worse the vet will be straight out.
 
My vet tells e to buy from the pharmacy.. Saves a trip to them plus on occasions I have been able to get it within the hour rather than next day. I did used to get my Danilon from a animal pharmacy who was basically a massive branch on a rough council estate in Wolverhampton.. They were slightly confused as it was for Mars the horse. My vets are really good but they are ultra expensive for boxes of danilon. It pays me to get a prescription and get three boxes at a time saving £30 a box.
 
As long as they are happy that no one who works in their shop has recommended it to you, they should sell it to you.

I went into the pharmacy where I worked when I was in 6th form a couple of years ago to get eye drops for one of our lambs. I told the shop girl that they were for a lamb. She got the pharmacist, who asked me whether she'd recommended them for a lamb. I said no, my dad, who is a vet, told me to get them. He was perfectly happy then.

The one thing they cannot do is recommend meds for an animal ie you can't go in and say "my horse has x condition, what do you recommend?".

Once had someone come in for Epsom salts for her horse, would happily have sold them to her but we had none in stock.
 
Its really annoying. I currently have to pay a FORTUNE for pergolide for my cushings pony which I get from my local chemist, its a crazy amount. I understand why I shouldnt get it for free like a patient does but the cost is ridiculous, its a necessity as it would have been for a person.

Its quite embarassing, coz he always calls out the horses name when the prescription is ready, just for a laugh...! Everyone waiting round me think I have a very strange name...
 
MagicMelon said:
Its really annoying. I currently have to pay a FORTUNE for pergolide for my cushings pony which I get from my local chemist, its a crazy amount. I understand why I shouldnt get it for free like a patient does but the cost is ridiculous, its a necessity as it would have been for a person.

Its quite embarassing, coz he always calls out the horses name when the prescription is ready, just for a laugh...! Everyone waiting round me think I have a very strange name...
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and the name is Winnie? How amusing...now I want to know the name...can just picture some faces in that pharmacy.
 
MagicMelon said:
Its really annoying. I currently have to pay a FORTUNE for pergolide for my cushings pony which I get from my local chemist, its a crazy amount. I understand why I shouldnt get it for free like a patient does but the cost is ridiculous, its a necessity as it would have been for a person.

Its quite embarassing, coz he always calls out the horses name when the prescription is ready, just for a laugh...! Everyone waiting round me think I have a very strange name...
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I know - you get such weird looks. My collie is on tramadol for arthritis which I get through the cascade system - vet does a script, take it to Tesco who give me the drugs, and I always feel strange asking for the prescription for the dog :D

I regularly buy peroxide for my sister's horse's thrush (he's very prone to it) and we have to say it's for first aid because they won't sell it if it's for the horse, same as for cough medicine for dogs when they get kennel cough/similar, even if the vet has said to get that the pharmacy can't sell it if they believe it's for an animal.
 
I have got several things over the counter but it depends where you go. I did try to get some Hydrogen Peroxide but they would no sell it to me so I just bought it off eBay.

I get an inhaler that my dog has to have by getting a prescription from my vets and take it to Boots. It costs £80 from vets ,£60 from the pet online pharmacy and £35 from a human pharmacy. Vets do make money so it is worth shopping around.

Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulphate ) are easily bought from any feed shop so you do not need to go to Boots etc.

Most things you can get on the net or from a super market just don't say it is for a horse.
 
MagicMelon said:
Its really annoying. I currently have to pay a FORTUNE for pergolide for my cushings pony which I get from my local chemist, its a crazy amount. I understand why I shouldnt get it for free like a patient does but the cost is ridiculous, its a necessity as it would have been for a person.

Its quite embarassing, coz he always calls out the horses name when the prescription is ready, just for a laugh...! Everyone waiting round me think I have a very strange name...
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You are lucky that you are still being prescribed pergolide as we now have to use Prascend under the cascade which is even more expensive
 
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