Horses with ulcers

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How long after starting treatment did your horse return to normal with behaviour issues?
My horse is still acting nervous of everything and is not herself after being on treatment for a month now.
Did they have to re scoped to check ulcer had gone?
 
My friends horse suffers from ulcers, she has to be very carefull with his diet and routine.
he used to be very stressy, which obviously didnt help his condition but she has him a new calmer now and hes like a different horse, really chilled, touch wood he hasnt had an ulcer problem for well over 8 months.
He had to be rescoped after hed been on a course of gastrogaurd, think hes been through this process twice now. Im sure she would be happy to share her experiences with you if you need any advise :-)
sorry i cant be of more help, i personally havent experienced them myself.
 
My horses symptoms didn't change at all, even after being on GG for 2 months. It turns out that there was pain elsewhere causing her stress and the ulcers to re-occur. Hopefully now the other issue is treated, the ulcer symptoms will reduce. Have you changed routine, feed, management etc as well as using medication? This will also have an impact on how successful the treatment is.
 
It depends where the ulcers are. One of my clients horses took at least 10 weeks before responding to treatment in terms of allowing us to ride her. It has been a further two months before I would say she was back to normal, so four months all together. She is kept on an expensive supplement now and is fab.
 
You will need to get your horse scoped again after treatment to see if the ulcers have cleared. Did you vet not offer this as a follow up? Speak to your vet to sort it out.
 
Sorry to hijack thread but what do horses with ulcers look like?

Mine is being scoped on wednesday but my yard think I'm mad to even consider ulcers because he's plump, glossy and v.v.healthy looking...
 
Frumpoon, one here who had ulcers looked fantasic he arrived looking poor and lacking in muscle but had spent 2 years living in the field he built up at a normal speed eating a forage based diet and soon looked great so I discounted ulcers as a possible cause of his strange behaviour but sure enough he had them the type in the bottom of the stomach that they give antibiotics for as well as gastro guard the top part of his stomach was completely normal but round the exit he had awful sore looking bleeding areas so for me that was lesson learned don't discount them just because the horse is blooming.
 
That's good advice, it's useful to know I'm not lala. I've yapped about this extensively elsewhere so I won't go on, but for my horse it's his behaviour - he's vile to tack up or touch his tum and has been since the day he arrived. It's just not the behaviour of a happy animal.
 
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