Sarcoid is back :( please make me feel better :( ALSO IN VET

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My horse has had sarcoids successfully treated in the past with Liverpool cream.

He had 5, 3 on his chest and wither area, 2 shallow surface ones up high on the inside of one hind leg. Those were treated last year and all dropped off and the vet was confident that they wouldnt come back.

I have found another one a week ago - it had some up very fast but doesnt seem to have grown since i first saw it. Up high on the inside of the hind leg again. Photos dispatched to Liverpool and cream on its way

The vet helpfully said that some horses they just keep on coming!
Now i'm worrying that this could be the death of him one day! lots of sobbing in the office bathroom later ;(

Is there anything i can do to stop these little blighters! or do i just keep on treating them when they arrive??

I need a cup of tea and a hug ;(
 
I found a flat one on the inside of my mares hind leg, the vet checked it over and said he would treat it and send pictures off for Liverpool cream if I wanted, but since it wasn't/isn't causing her any harm or interfering with anything then to leave it? I'm just praying they don't appear anywhere else now so fingers crossed :) Is this the only one to reappear??
 
The 2 that were on his hind leg last year were flat but this new one is the same place but is a raised hard lump, you can see the roots on this one :(
Good luck with you mares - I heard of many horses that don't ever change and never need treatment
 
Treat again as quickly as possible if they reappear do it again my vet keeps the left over Liverpool cream so they can quickly retreat if they reappear it's a war of attrition sometimes but I have always won in the end.
 
Have you got any photo's of your's before/after treatment? Would be good to see if i should be doing anything about this one, i just feel that as it's not causing any bother i'm best to leave it alone. The vet explained how severe the Liverpool cream is so i'm reluctant to cause her pain if i don't need too, but also if i treat now then i'm covered by insurance but if i wait over a year i won't be. Hopefully this one you have had reappear is a one off, i wonder if there are any successful alternative methods to dealing with sarcoids, although with most it does just seem to depend on what works for each horse.
 
The research I have done and the advice from the vets is the Liverpool cream is the only proven treatment as it is chemotheropy based.
The treatment is not as bad as you may think. The area become a raw sore and it is horrible to look at. But I've found that my horse tollorated it fine and never needed pain relief or sedated.
The ones he's had treated in the past didn't grow back and there is a slight scar tissue.
I'm concerned one more has grown again but I will treat it promptly as advised by my vet as it looks like he will be prone to them.
I'm glad you've beaten them Goldenstar :) fingers crossed I will too! Did you horse have many of them? Did they all die the first round of treatment?
I've been battling them for a couple years now! Urgh!
 
If you don't have any liverpool cream left have you tried thuja? you can get drops or tiny little round pills that can be put in the feed. I used 200 strength and it worked on mine but it kills them from the inside and there is no aggravation from putting cream on.
 
You may or may not believe this but I bought a young horse and not long after he was home he started to get sacroids which were horrible looking I tried various things and the only thing that worked in the end was a CHARM lol someone was in our yard and recommended the old wives tales remedy and the things were gone shortly afterwards :)
 
First off,don't panic:) These sarcoids are very prone to re-occurance,in fact it is more common for them to grow back than not!

Once a sarcoid horse,always a sarcoid horse. Each time they appear,get them treated,don't give up as they don't spread internally,just invade the skin.There is no reason for a sarcoid horse not to live a full,long life & pass away from old age if you keep treating the sarcoids as they appear.

I'm currently dealing with 7 on one of my youngsters. Chin up,& fight the buggers:)
 
GingerTrotter said:
I need a cup of tea and a hug ;(
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cuppatea here!!
i bring hugstoo!

Dont worry, it really isnt the end of the road for your horse AT ALL! Unless they are where the tack sits or the bleeding weepy type sarcoids dont bother the horse itself, they just bother the owners.
I have one atm with MASSIVE sarcoids - golf ball and bigger and they are the bleeding ones.He must have around 10 between his back legs and loads of pimple type ones over the rest of his body. They dont affect his work atall. We tried lots of different treatments with absolutly no effect. We banded the big ones and they did drop off. Some of them have come back though not all. Once we stopped all treatments (gave up on them tbh as more were coming up) after a few months we noticed that a load of the little ones between his legs had gone. He only has a couple of big ones left and a few warty types on his body.
we're not worried.
 
Daughters youngster had a huge one in his ear that the vet banded and it dropped off within a few days. The other smaller ones he had the vet said to use Zovirax cream on which we are doing with some success as they are reducing in size now :)
 
Went to a talk on sarcoids near Harrogate with the Sarcoid Guru (his name escapes me). Said that weepy/bleeding ones can be infectious so be very carefull to have them covered or they may be passed from horse to horse. Was something new on me!
 
GingerTrotter said:
The research I have done and the advice from the vets is the Liverpool cream is the only proven treatment as it is chemotheropy based.
The treatment is not as bad as you may think. The area become a raw sore and it is horrible to look at. But I've found that my horse tollorated it fine and never needed pain relief or sedated.
The ones he's had treated in the past didn't grow back and there is a slight scar tissue.
I'm concerned one more has grown again but I will treat it promptly as advised by my vet as it looks like he will be prone to them.
I'm glad you've beaten them Goldenstar :) fingers crossed I will too! Did you horse have many of them? Did they all die the first round of treatment?
I've been battling them for a couple years now! Urgh!
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I have only once got rid of them first go with Liverpool cream the others needed two and three goes .
My last one who had nodular one had them removed at Edinburgh university with a mixture of surgery and lasering them off .
So far after six months ( touchs wood ) non have come back if they do I will retreat as soon as I notice them.
 
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