Has anyone had a Sarcoid Treated?

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Hi,

My arab mare has a sarcoid that is right under her belly
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. She had it when I bought her and every year it appeared to just fall off and then grow back again. However, last 6 months or so it has been a pain with getting inflamed and dripping blood
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and we have been advised to try to have it taken off by the vet using the evil lotion that he comes out and puts on over a course of 5/6 days. She is not covered for this on the insurance as this sarcoid is quite big and lumpy and was noted on my vetting.
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Has anyone had this veterinary treatment and if so was it successful ?
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My vet is saying it may work, it may not, she may need one treatment, she may need a second. I understand they can give no guarantees but it would be nice to hear from people that maybe have had experience with this.

Many thanks !!!
 
Yes, one of our Arab mares at work had this done for a few sarcoids. She needed two treatments, but it seemed to work as far as I know (I dont work there anymore). It is expensive though
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Can you discuss other options with your vet?
 
He said that our other option was to take her into the hospital and have it taken off !!! Even that gives no guarantee of it not coming back. It is right under her belly and looks like a fat piece of mud fever !!! We've tried camarosa ointment on it, it jdidn't touch it and course she does not like it being touched either !! I can't understand how sometimes it just "falls off"... it always grows back though, which is my worry.
 
My first horse had a large sarcoid under his neck which the vet referred to as an angleberry which is an old fashioned term for the same thing. Biggles kept catching it on the top strand of the horrible barbed wire we had in the field. It was the summer and the vet didn't want to take it off as he was concerned the flies would lay eggs on it but poor old Biggs kept catching it and it would bleed like mad and was attracting the flies anyway. So I begged the vet to get rid of, and he kindly excised it using a scalpel under local anathetic and it only took two ticks to remove it. I was really interested by all this so the vet cut it in half with his scalpel and showed me how fibrous it was my running his scalpel over the surface of the inside of it. Biggs dripped a bit of blood on the stable but it soon stopped and he had some purple spray on it and that was that. I made him a contraption to go around his neck out of net curtains and knicker elastic (he was very laid back and quiet bless him)and he looked very silly but it kept the flies off until it had chance to heal again! Very sadly we lost him a few months later as a result of an accident on a pleasure ride so we never got to find out if it would grow back again as quite a high number that are cut off do return. As for the stuff to paint on sarcoids that wasn't around in 1997 although I have heard repeated rubbing of vitamin E cream can help shrink it or even help it fall off but I am unsure if this is true and I think it is the little ones, wheras Biggles angleberry/sarcoid was massive.
 
Yes my horse had a sarcoid on his face. Vet took photos and sent them to Liverpool and the professor sent some cream back and that was that. It was horrible treating it at the time but now all the hair has grown back and you cant even tell there was anything there and this was 4 years ago but sometimes they are better left alone but in this case get your vet to send some photos off to Liverpool.
 
I think it was Liverpool this concoction is coming from too .. my friend has my horse on loan and we are worried about paying out all that money for something that is going to come straight on back .. Were you able to administer your own cream Cyberchick or did the vet have to come and do it for you?

Loved the website Gigglepig thanks for that ... answers alot of questions on the nasty lumpy bits
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Sorry to hear about your boy applecart. I love pleasure rides ... that must have been a pretty bad accident you had there, hope you are ok.

Thanks all
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The vet HAS to come out to put it on [ it is dangerous stuff and only given to vets on this understanding], it worked for my horse but we had to have 4 visits and then another 4 later on. It was worth every penny, it will probably get worse before it gets better but it is the best solution
 
thanks for your reply Wizbang. Yes it was 12 years ago but he was the best horse I ever had, a 12 year old
Grade B Showjumper who had jumped big speed tracks abroad. We got him for a song due to his age and the fact that he'd jumped just about as high as he could go. Was a shame, he fell down a ditch that was invisible and covered in foilage and severed two tendons and lacerated his fetlock joint from one side to the other. He had 3 ops under GA but the wound refused to knit and the joint remained open so he was PTS. He never ran out or refused a fence the 2 1/2 years I had him, and I gained an awful lot of experience on him and confidence to boot! Truly was a horse of a lifetime. RIP Giggles as my farrier used to call him! x
 
Thanks for that. It sounds exactly like the lotion we are having ... great to know it worked .. our vet said it may take 2 goes but we are keeping our fingers crossed for one as it is not on the insurance
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My first horse had a large sarcoid under his neck which the vet referred to as an angleberry which is an old fashioned term for the same thing. Biggles kept catching it on the top strand of the horrible barbed wire we had in the field. It was the summer and the vet didn't want to take it off as he was concerned the flies would lay eggs on it but poor old Biggs kept catching it and it would bleed like mad and was attracting the flies anyway. So I begged the vet to get rid of, and he kindly excised it using a scalpel under local anathetic and it only took two ticks to remove it. I was really interested by all this so the vet cut it in half with his scalpel and showed me how fibrous it was my running his scalpel over the surface of the inside of it. Biggs dripped a bit of blood on the stable but it soon stopped and he had some purple spray on it and that was that. I made him a contraption to go around his neck out of net curtains and knicker elastic (he was very laid back and quiet bless him)and he looked very silly but it kept the flies off until it had chance to heal again! Very sadly we lost him a few months later as a result of an accident on a pleasure ride so we never got to find out if it would grow back again as quite a high number that are cut off do return. As for the stuff to paint on sarcoids that wasn't around in 1997 although I have heard repeated rubbing of vitamin E cream can help shrink it or even help it fall off but I am unsure if this is true and I think it is the little ones, wheras Biggles angleberry/sarcoid was massive.

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An old horse of mine had a couple on his sheath vet also referred to them as angleberrys though said angleberrys are sarcroids that bleed. He had to have them surgically removed due the vet not wanting to use the cream near the sheath.
 
my boy has (nearly had) one under his belly in his groin kind of area ish lol. the vet came and simply put big tight rubber bands around it, to cut off the circulation and hopefully kill the root, the whole thing has like deflated (looks like a shrivelled balloon) and now im just waiting for it to fall off
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i treated my boy's little one on the inside of his hindleg with Liverpool cream last year. it fell off after 3months - i haven't seen the scar for months now as it's covered in winter coat so will be interested to see what it looks like when summer coat comes through.
 
My vet gave me very strict instructions and I was allowed to do this myself.
I think the vet assessed me to see how competent I was as it is horrible stuff and you do have to be very very careful.
 
Hello, yes I had a pony with sarcoids on the chest and next to his sheath. I paid huge vet bills for two operations to remove/treat them, but they came back worse than before. Then someone told me about Camrosa ointment. I used it for approx six months and the sarcoids improved dramatically. You can buy it online, it might work for you too.
 
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My vet gave me very strict instructions and I was allowed to do this myself.
I think the vet assessed me to see how competent I was as it is horrible stuff and you do have to be very very careful.

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Derek Knottenbelt gives strict instructions when he sends it out to vets that they MUST NOT give it to owners to apply theirselves so your vet is very naughty. It's lethal stuff! Derek will stop supplying it if he finds out this is happening.
 
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