head nodding & colic type symptoms

[traci6871]

Hi

Can anyone give some advise on my 16hh chestnut thoroughbred.
he is only 5 years old & normally a well managed well behaved polite young horse & this is the 1st summer he has been with me.
Over the past month he has been diagnosed with ulcers from his life racing, which are being treated, but has also had 2 cases of spasmodic colic in the space of 3 weeks?
he is a real stress head when anything in his world changes but since the heat over the past 2 weeks he is coming in ever day& with in 2 hours all his veins are up,he looks subdued in his eyes, violently head nodding & throwing himself round his stable as if he has colic type symptoms.
so every night i shower him down, walk him for 30 minutes which seems to relieve the stress, cools him down & relaxes him.
I'm not sure if he is suffering in the heat? has hay fever type symptoms? is allergic to something? its driving me crazy. The yard is calling me every night as he so in so much dis-stress. any advice would be greatly received as I am so worried about him.

 

[vicky_sut]

Have you spoken to your vet?

 

[traci6871]

he just wants to concentrate on sorting ulcers & change of diet due to the colic before approaching anything else?

 

[racebuddy]

have pmd you

 

[flirtygerty]

Try a calmer like Stroppy Mare or Klop, both have had good results, my gelding is on one scoop of Stroppy Mare and it stops him being riggy with the mare. My daughters stressy mare is an angel on Klop
You have nothing to lose both are herbal

 

[traci6871]

He is already on a calmer called magnitude. Now last night when I went down he was calm & relax. This has been the 1st coolest day we have had since all these problems started. Now I'm convinced more than ever that his problems are heat related, I think he is panicking at being so hot, which in turn is causing him colic?