JGKJ
Well-Known Member
Hi All.
I have been posting the last few months regarding my ponys problems with balance etc and his subsequesnt diagnosis of Cushing's disease.
Right, ok this could be quite lenghty but please bear with me as the whole thing is really starting to make sense now.
In early December my pony had a blob of blood in one pile of Droppings and in his urine so promptly got the vet out who took bloods, and the results were fairly in-conclusive but he suggested we put him on the 5 day Panacur Equi-Guard worming course and also anit-biotics. He went on this and seemed ok, no more blood at all, then literally just after he finished the wormer, he suddenly went very poorly over night. His symptoms were that he was very very unsteady on all legs, seemed spooked at his feed bucket etc, and also very unbalanced ie, he couldnt shake his head or move quicky without nearly falling over, and doing so on some occasions. Had the vet out again and he wanted to put him to sleep but we wanted to know what was going on with him before we made that decision, but the vet was pretty much useless and offered no explanation at all! We then suggested that he should test him for Cushing's disease which came back positive at the beginning of January. During this period Kelly made slow, but positive progress. The vet said he needed to be put on Pergolide, and was started on 500mcg a day. He was on this dosage for approx 1 month but we werent seeing any massive improvements, so the vet suggested we upped him to 750mcg, and within a fortnight he was really picking up, and amazingly his balance issues had completely gone. But the last week or so, Kelly has really gone off his hard feed, and when it was worming time at the weekend (double dose Strongid-P) we split into 2 doses, one on Friday and one on Saturday, and bizzarely by Sunday afternoon, he was back to exactly how he was in December, complete lack of co-ordination, wobbling all over the place, and he had fallen down. On Sunday night he was acting a bit Colicy so had the vet out at 11pm who gave him and Anti-Spasmodic. By next morning his his Colic had cleared up, it was a very mild dose really, but he was still in a very bad way ie was wobbling all over the shop and fell down, spooked at feed bucket, all the same as he was in December. Got the vet out again, she gave him a Multi-Vit injection. She also took his temp which was 39.6 so she left anti-biotics. She had no idea what was wrong with him at all.
Have been doing some research and it turns out that Kellys symptoms and the link between worming both times, it could well be that Kelly has liver damage and was struggling to cope with the levels of wormer.
It all starts to make sense now!
Does anyone know much about Liver Damage? I have very little knowledge and once again i am left to do the research as the vets dont seem to have any answers!
I have been posting the last few months regarding my ponys problems with balance etc and his subsequesnt diagnosis of Cushing's disease.
Right, ok this could be quite lenghty but please bear with me as the whole thing is really starting to make sense now.
In early December my pony had a blob of blood in one pile of Droppings and in his urine so promptly got the vet out who took bloods, and the results were fairly in-conclusive but he suggested we put him on the 5 day Panacur Equi-Guard worming course and also anit-biotics. He went on this and seemed ok, no more blood at all, then literally just after he finished the wormer, he suddenly went very poorly over night. His symptoms were that he was very very unsteady on all legs, seemed spooked at his feed bucket etc, and also very unbalanced ie, he couldnt shake his head or move quicky without nearly falling over, and doing so on some occasions. Had the vet out again and he wanted to put him to sleep but we wanted to know what was going on with him before we made that decision, but the vet was pretty much useless and offered no explanation at all! We then suggested that he should test him for Cushing's disease which came back positive at the beginning of January. During this period Kelly made slow, but positive progress. The vet said he needed to be put on Pergolide, and was started on 500mcg a day. He was on this dosage for approx 1 month but we werent seeing any massive improvements, so the vet suggested we upped him to 750mcg, and within a fortnight he was really picking up, and amazingly his balance issues had completely gone. But the last week or so, Kelly has really gone off his hard feed, and when it was worming time at the weekend (double dose Strongid-P) we split into 2 doses, one on Friday and one on Saturday, and bizzarely by Sunday afternoon, he was back to exactly how he was in December, complete lack of co-ordination, wobbling all over the place, and he had fallen down. On Sunday night he was acting a bit Colicy so had the vet out at 11pm who gave him and Anti-Spasmodic. By next morning his his Colic had cleared up, it was a very mild dose really, but he was still in a very bad way ie was wobbling all over the shop and fell down, spooked at feed bucket, all the same as he was in December. Got the vet out again, she gave him a Multi-Vit injection. She also took his temp which was 39.6 so she left anti-biotics. She had no idea what was wrong with him at all.
Have been doing some research and it turns out that Kellys symptoms and the link between worming both times, it could well be that Kelly has liver damage and was struggling to cope with the levels of wormer.
It all starts to make sense now!
Does anyone know much about Liver Damage? I have very little knowledge and once again i am left to do the research as the vets dont seem to have any answers!
