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BBP said:
Oh wow really? Yes that’s the one. I’ve never had a reaction before and the other two horses were fine so I was really surprised.

I don’t know if many other horses shake like this with colic or if it’s because of his muscle condition but if it helps anyone else identify colic and not leave it too late then it’s worth sharing. I had thought his colic was very mild and ok to just monitor closely, until I saw this.
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There are videos on Youtube and Facebook showing reactions that horses have had to Pramox and muscle tremors are included. Some go badly ataxic and end up being PTS.

Does BBP have any (other) metabolic problems apart from the RER? Just for my own interest really - the horse in my case had undiagnosed EMS when she had her issues.
 
Now I’ve googled it I can see that a lot of horses (relatively speaking) seem to react to it. I think it’s unlikely he has a heavy redworm burden that is being killed off but you never know. He doesn’t have any other metabolic conditions that I’m aware of, but he does have a sensitive hind gut (not stupidly so but if his forage drops and I stop the equishure he starts to become reluctant to move forwards under saddle) so whether this sensitivity increases his susceptibility I don’t know.
 
I hope that it's a simple colic and that he recovers. However, this is one of the main presentations of grass sickness, along with reduced or absent gut sounds. Has this been ruled out? I really hope I'm wrong.
 
I was on my way to the Horse of the year show on the train a few years back and got in a chat with the rep for the company which sells Equest Pramox. That person told me that they would never use moxidectin and praziquantel at the same time because of the number of horses affected by it.
 
Wagtail said:
I hope that it's a simple colic and that he recovers. However, this is one of the main presentations of grass sickness, along with reduced or absent gut sounds. Has this been ruled out? I really hope I'm wrong.
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Thankfully he is back to his bouncing best and has been hooliganing around the field with his best mate today. But several people mentioned grass sickness to me and I hadn’t been aware of how it presented so it’s good I learned something new.
 
ycbm said:
I was on my way to the Horse of the year show on the train a few years back and got in a chat with the rep for the company which sells Equest Pramox. That person told me that they would never use moxidectin and praziquantel at the same time because of the number of horses affected by it.
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Interesting. I do plan to write to the company, just in case they keep a record of this sort of reaction.
 
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