Pony with ulcers... your thoughts?

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Pony has been diagnosed with ulcers, and has been treated with Gastroguard and antibiotics. She has been scoped 3 or 4 times. The ulcers seemed to be getting better, but now have re-appeared.
Vet recommends turning her away, and not riding her anymore, ever again. She is quite a stressy character and it seems to be a cycle of stress..causing ulcers...causing stress etc etc.
She is only 8 or 9 and owner is considering having her PTS instead of retiring her.
Any thoughts ....?
I have no personal experience of ulcers in my horses and don't know what to advise. Thanks.
 
I feed my stressy TB global herbs acid-x and the difference is amazing! It really seems to help with stomach discomfort, he's turned into a different horse. Might be worth a go?
 
Routine has an enormous amount to do with ulcers.

Do you know what this pony's routine is in terms of turn out, feed etc.??
 
No I don't, really. I think they do everything to help her be unstressed, ie turnout & company etc. Also she is on high fibre diet.....
I was really wanting to know if ulcers can get so bad...and be so likely to be a recurrent problem...that there is no alternative to PTS...?
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Please get in touch with H's Mum (on here). She wont be around for a while as she has literally just moved house but this is her website......it gives her contact numbers.

http://www.hbradshaws.co.uk/

I have seen wonderful results on horses with ulcers that have used Coligone liquid and know of one who has actually been saved from PTS after only two days on it.

Its certainly worth a chat and a try and its a lot cheaper than gastroguard.
 
Thank you for that. I just want to find out about severe ulcers.... as much as possible. I will definitely follow that up.
 
Spring grass exacerbated the ulcers in a horse I had - too much sugar I think. People swear by coligone, also low sugar and cereal but high oil diet eg Saracen Re-leve. Also "Slippery Elm" from Hilton Herbs. Alfalfa is a natural buffer so lots of the low sugar hi-fi - . Different things seem to work for different horses. Don't give up yet - the stuff I'm suggesting is not expensive compared to Neigh-lox and Gastro-gard. Our horse came off grass completely and lived on alfalfa haylage (pricey) and hay (not haylage) and thrived; but he colicked as soon as he ate something he shouldn't have.
 
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