Joint Supplement - Has anyone got any feedback re this one

I used it for about 12 weeks on both of mine - didnt notice a difference at all and the vet prescribed a high dosage of 8 tablets each for the duration.

Found superflex to be much better and a lot cheaper.

Oh, and it didnt help with their sweet itch either although supposedly it is meant to. Really expansive as well - was about £80 for a bottle.
 
Yes I have used it and I found it the most immediate of all the various supplements I have used in terms of relief.

You will know within the first tub of tablets whether it is going to work for your horse as you will see a difference (or not). It's not like cortaflex and superflex that need a period of time to build up in the system.

The product smells rank and your horse may not like the taste so it's best to crush the tablets up to a powder and mix them in otherwise the horse may spit them out. I believe this often happens without owners realising and they conclude the product doesn't work.
 
Yes, I had forgotten about the smell - supposed to taste like mint but neither of my horse's liked them so I had to crush the tablets up.

I was on the high dose of 8 per day for a month and then 4 a day for 2 months and there was no difference whatsover - even the vet didnt notice any.

It was used on a horse with a sacro iliac strain and the other has kissing spine. For arthritis my vet said that it was based on the lower level of occurence of arthritis in Maori people whose diet consisted predominantly of green lipped mussels. However I think it is more of a preventative rather than a cure.

If your horse already has arthritis you need something that is going to help the joints now.

Oh, and I tried the human version for my mum - no difference whatsover and actually she had more pain when on the tablets so stopped taking them.
 
I feed the newmart joint supplement and thinks its been great.

I also feed green lipped muscle from hollland and barrett to my horse at a cost of 11.00 a months and when its run out within 3-4 days her dodgy fetlock comes up so i know it does work.

My horse surgeon dr david platt had told my vets its being used and so far has proven very sucsessful and will help ward off arthritus in years to come.
 
David Platt is also my vet and he does recommend them but I saw no difference at all in my two and neither did he.
 
Hes not my vet but was called in to operate on my horse becuase he was a specialist in her injury ( cartledge damage and joint trauma to the fetlock).

If i run out within a few days its up but within about 4 days of feeding it it goes back down to normal. She doesnt have arthritus as yet but it certainly has helped her but not sure how affective it will be in a horse with more advance joint issues.

Id try the holland and barrett GLM ones first as those one on that link work out very very expensive to feed.
 
Thats interesting, I was going to try my horse on lipped green muscle to try and get him off his danilon.
Nupafeed sent me a sample which he has refused to eat, He spat it out)
But Maxavita said they never thought it was a problem and he would eat the tablets,
That clearly wont happen!!
Not sure what to try,
he is on cortaflex ha ,1 danilon, for spavins and his old farrier buggered up the shoeing on the fronts, so was 6/10th lame for about a year , but is fine now thank goodness.
 
We have an arthritic horse who is currently on NAF Superflex and I was thinking of changing to Maxaflex. I spoke to my friend who is a vet and she said that the green lipped mussels contain high levels of chondroitin and glucosamine which can be found in other supplements. There was a little bit in H&H a few weeks ago that said some veterinary studies had shown green lipped mussel extract to be effective in horses with arthritis.
 
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