ovarian cysts

[LiseHoneyman]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice, I have a 15.3hh, 10 year old, IDxTB mare. A couple of years ago we found out my mare had about 12 cysts on her ovaries, which made her hormones unbalanced and made her extremely grumpy and so she stopped jumping which was really unlike her. She was put on regumate and has been on it ever since, which has worked well.
However, lately she has started stopping jumping again and has felt really uncomfortable when ridden, so we've had the vet out again, to find out the cysts have grown, there is more and it means her ovaries are about double to size they should be. My vet has told me to take her off the regumate for 3 weeks, give her the time off and then put her back on it, but apart from that there is nothing else we can do as they are too big to do microsurgery, and even if she was put into foal, she would be the same after. Meanwhile I am missing events and she is losing fitness but most of all if this doesn't work I've potentially got an unrideable horse which is absolutely devastating!!
Any advice or info would be most appreciated!

 

[katylee]

can you not remove the ovaries?

 

[dingle12]

Sorry cant help at all but i had an ovarian cyst it knocked me for six i losy nearly all my ovairy because it was so big

 

[Charlie77]

MY friends mare used to have very sore ovaries, She was a very short backed tb, so when she was in season you just could not ride her, She was an x racer who went on to dressage PSG level, she was on regimate for years, the vet then suggested that she try letting the mare have a foal to see if that made a difference to her & may be if that made no difference to consider having her ovaries removed, Cutting a long story short, she did have a foal, she never really came back in to work as the same ladies other horse had moved up to advanced, Now the sad part she died 18months - 2 years after having the foal as apparently she had had a cyst on her ovaries that had burst & caused Septersemia.Sorry cant spell! I know that's an extreme story but if she were mine I would look in to the possibility of having her ovaries removed? This was a good few years ago, I have the mares son who's 14 this year! sadly the same age him mum was when she died.