Non-behavioural hormonal problems

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dollyanna

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Has anyone had any experience with hormonal issues that don't cause behavioural changes but cause something else? I am about to start my little mare on Regumate for a trial to see if it solves her intense itching - it only happens for 24hrs every 23-24 days, and all scabs have healed within another 24hrs. The vet mentioned that they had used regumate for a pony who came down with laminitis with every season, which got me wondering what other weird symptoms people had experienced with their mare's cycles that weren't behaviour changes?
 
dollyanna said:
Has anyone had any experience with hormonal issues that don't cause behavioural changes but cause something else? I am about to start my little mare on Regumate for a trial to see if it solves her intense itching - it only happens for 24hrs every 23-24 days, and all scabs have healed within another 24hrs. The vet mentioned that they had used regumate for a pony who came down with laminitis with every season, which got me wondering what other weird symptoms people had experienced with their mare's cycles that weren't behaviour changes?
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Well they caused my mare's epilepsy so I suppose you could call that a weird symptom!
 
Really? That's interesting. Did you treat with regumate to stop it, or was there another course of action? How did you diagnose it?
 
dollyanna said:
Really? That's interesting. Did you treat with regumate to stop it, or was there another course of action? How did you diagnose it?
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No, we didn't realise at the time that it was her hormones at the bottom of it all - she had a seizure every tenth day and it wasn't until she moved her season due to the arrival of a new mare on the yard, and the seizure dates moved the exact same amount, that the penny dropped and even then all the vets said I was wrong and it was totally impossible. Needless to say there are now papers about equine seizures and oestrus!! She was treated with firstly phenobarbitone, and later a combination of phenobarbitone and potassium bromide which had the happy double effect of quelling the seizures and also damping down her hormones so that she didn't come into season at all. If she showed signs of being in season (she would get used to the doseage level after about 6 months, the same as any addict) I upped her medication straight away as I knew a seizure could be only 10 days away. No vet ever saw her have a seizure but they diagnosed from my description and acting it out (RADA here I come).
 
Why every 10 days? That seems a very short cycle? It is fascinating though. My vets have never seen anything quite like my girl's symptoms, she looks like something is breaking out of her skin from the inside, she is covered in lumps along her neck, but within 36hrs from start to finish it is all healed over as if nothing had happened, with the exception of the scabs hanging around in her mane until I can brush them all out, and the lack of hair where she has scratched. Then nothing at all until 23-24 days later.
Any more experiences from anyone?
 
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