Protexin acid ease - adverse reaction?

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I've had my mare two years and have struggled with her sharp spooky behaviour. No calmer has worked. The spookiness has got worse and she has started chewing on her rug rail and as brewers yeast has previously seemed to have a slight calming effect on her I was advised to give a gut balancer a try.

I spoke to protexin and they advised acid ease. Within a week of using it she's become noticeably sharper/excitable and has bucked twice (she bucked once when I first had her but hasn't done since that was two years ago). Saddle recently checked and teeth up to date. Her weight is (too) good and poos firm (but occasionally smelly).

Feed is thunderbrook herbal chaff and daily essentials and a joint supplement plus brewers yeast and magnitude.

Has anyone had any adverse effect with protexin acid ease? She's had the quick fix before and been fine. Could it be magnesium overload (as in daily essentials, obviously magnitude and protexin)? Any other ideas/suggestions?
 
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I've had my mare two years and have struggled with her sharp spooky behaviour. No calmer has worked. The spookiness has got worse and she has started chewing on her rug rail and as brewers yeast has previously seemed to have a slight calming effect on her I was advised to give a gut balancer a try.

I spoke to protexin and they advised acid ease. Within a week of using it she's become noticeably sharper/excitable and has bucked twice (she bucked once when I first had her but hasn't done since that was two years ago). Saddle recently checked and teeth up to date. Her weight is (too) good and poos firm (but occasionally smelly).

Feed is thunderbrook herbal chaff and daily essentials and a joint supplement plus brewers yeast and magnitude.

Has anyone had any adverse effect with protexin acid ease? She's had the quick fix before and been fine. Could it be magnesium overload (as in daily essentials, obviously magnitude and protexin)? Any other ideas/suggestions?
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Sorry no experience of protexin but;

Having had horses which have been very sensitive to all sorts of feed stuff, I would take your mare off all feed/supplements except hay for a couple of weeks and see if that changes her behaviour. We feed Agrobs haycobs very successfully but considered feeding their muesli until i saw that it contains carrots, amongst other things. We have one mare whose behaviour becomes extreme if she eats carrots, so that ruled that out. i don't know what's in Thunderbrooks chaff but it could be that your mare is sensitive to something normally considered harmless.
 
Has this horse been scoped for ulcers and checked for pain? Chewing a rug rail is not just 'spooky' behaviour, it smacks of pain somewhere to me.
 
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