Ovary scan- pain symptoms

[scats]

After chatting with the vet today Polly is going for an ovary scan next week. The last few days she has suffered from colic-type symptoms that don’t appear to be colic. She is pawing the ground, kicking out and pacing the stable. Then she goes and eats her hay for a bit, comes over for a chat, then starts again. Pooing normally. She also did this a few weeks back and it coincided with her season starting. She is due back in season now.

Anyone had similar? I’m really worried about her tonight, she’s just not herself at all. She also exhibits very strong seasons and can be quite difficult to handle at the time. Never really dangerous or rude, just completely mind not on anything else. Certain geldings seem to be able to trigger her off in a matter of minutes aswell and she will pace the fence line for hours if she knows there is a boy nearby.

 

[rmasterson]

I have a somewhat similar situation but different!My mare exhibits similar behaviour pacing the fence line, being extremely aggressive and narky towards a gelding companion, then grooming him 10 mins later. This year she showed much stronger seasons (she's 10). Always a bit grumpy, she became extremely so in the last few months. Worse, she started to show a reluctance to go forward under saddle and kicked out when I applied my leg, especially on the right. We started her on Regumate.
She was scanned 2 weeks ago. Her right ovary was "severely enlarged" with a suspect mass attached, most likely a granulosa theca cell tumour. Blood test for same returned negative. Vet hospital advised removing both ovaries. I was a bit reluctant to do that although she was booked in for the surgery next week. Then today, she seemed much happier in herself and when I rode her, she showed no nappy behaviour at all. Back to normal!! My own vet scanned her this evening and says her ovaries are perfectly normal! Needless to say the surgery is now cancelled. The vet credits the Regumate with sorting her out.
It sounds like getting your mare scanned is a good idea. It's not terribly expensive and my vet scanned my mare today with no sedation. Job done in 5 minutes. You'll know a lot more after the scan. Best of luck!

 

[scats]

I have a somewhat similar situation but different!My mare exhibits similar behaviour pacing the fence line, being extremely aggressive and narky towards a gelding companion, then grooming him 10 mins later. This year she showed much stronger seasons (she's 10). Always a bit grumpy, she became extremely so in the last few months. Worse, she started to show a reluctance to go forward under saddle and kicked out when I applied my leg, especially on the right. We started her on Regumate.
She was scanned 2 weeks ago. Her right ovary was "severely enlarged" with a suspect mass attached, most likely a granulosa theca cell tumour. Blood test for same returned negative. Vet hospital advised removing both ovaries. I was a bit reluctant to do that although she was booked in for the surgery next week. Then today, she seemed much happier in herself and when I rode her, she showed no nappy behaviour at all. Back to normal!! My own vet scanned her this evening and says her ovaries are perfectly normal! Needless to say the surgery is now cancelled. The vet credits the Regumate with sorting her out.
It sounds like getting your mare scanned is a good idea. It's not terribly expensive and my vet scanned my mare today with no sedation. Job done in 5 minutes. You'll know a lot more after the scan. Best of luck!

Thank you for your reply. She came into season this week as predicted. She is only in light work due to arthritis but last week she wouldn’t even tolerate any trot and got herself in a right state earlier last week. When I took her back to her stable, she started to show these colic-type symptoms.

She also paces the fence when she’s in season and, oddly, started licking my other mares udder yesterday. She’s being scanned on Friday anyway. I’ll keep you updated.