sarcoids any experiance of them shrinking and going as they appeared ?

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Looking at doncellas post my boys sarcoids like her pix then, over last week and a half it is changing shrinking slightly and growing hairs ive waited months for diagnosis and liverpool treatment and is due for treatment next week over four or five days i think there is a definate reduction ,has anyone else had this happen ?Im not sure about putting him through the treatment just yet ive paid my £100 for liverpool cream anyway intresting to here your experiances thank-you
 
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My horse had one which was just small and over time it seemed to shrink and disappear, it is just a tiny flat area now that hasn't changed or caused problems for years with no treatment. You have to look really hard to find where it was. She also has one that has been treated with homeopathic thuja and that also shrank. They do say that the horse's own immune system will clear them up sometimes.
I think I'd monitor it and see what it does, providing the cream will last for use later if you need it.
 
The cream will only be useful for 6 months as it is made up specifically for each case!

If it is ordered, I would treat the regressing sarcoid anyway, to get rid of it once and for all, but as I said on the other thread, spontaneous regression is not unheard of.
 
Thank-you didnt want to hijack ops thread totally, i just think its strange all this time its going now when treatment due next week.Do you think they are stress related ?They did appear on a yard were he took six weeks to settle we moved and he was fine within three days just someone said they can be stress related <im suprised i dont have them !>
 
My boy has had several regress. I've always wondered about the stress element too - he got them when he was bought by a college and worked in a fairly stressful environment, then they went when I got him and he started living out 24/7 and being handled just by me.
 
We have just had a sarcoid drop off by itself! Clever boy! It grew to about 2 inches long, not particularly crusty, but still attracting flies and yesterday it had gone! Vet said it may do the same thing in a couple of years. No stress - horse is retired and living in the same place as he has for six years. He does have a low immune system though so it is quite remarkable that he has managed to get rid of it!
 
Over the years I've had this happen twice, both horses had sarcoids. One was on the inside of the mare's back leg, about 2cm diameter, was there as a 3yr old, used to check it regularly then over the years as it didn't alter I stopped, looked then when I sold her as a 10yr old and it had completely disappeared!! The other time it was on a gelding, when I bought him he had one on his shoulder just in front of the saddle, and one between his front legs. I rode him for hunting the first winter I had him, and in the summer he was turned away, over the summer they both disappeared, and were only just visible like a dry patch of skin once I had clipped him... very odd! I did nothing to either as I am a firm believer in not messing with sarcoids unless they are causing a problem.
 
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Thank-you didnt want to hijack ops thread totally, i just think its strange all this time its going now when treatment due next week.Do you think they are stress related ?They did appear on a yard were he took six weeks to settle we moved and he was fine within three days just someone said they can be stress related <im suprised i dont have them !>
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I was told by a vet that her friends horse got sarcoids when stressed - they came and went at random times.
 
a old cure, fry bacon and use greese mixed with few tablespoons of iodine and mixe well. put glooves on and rub all over them and in a month or 2 there will be none. i was told a few weeks but took my boy 6 weeks to all fall off. just apply once.
 
My coloured gelding had sarcoids on his sheath which I had treated with the cream from Liverpool. They dropped off a few weeks after the treatment but have reoccured twice on the sheath since the initial treatment. I left the last batch quite a long time as the vet suggested they may drop off (which they didnt) so had the cream again. I have now noticed though that his sheath is quite swollen and hope this isnt due to the fact I left the sarcoids for a few months before getting the cream applied.
 
My horse had one when I brought him, I started putting sudocream on it to keep the flies off, it got smaller and smaller over a few months - now it has gone completly.

He did come to me from a stressy show jumping yard, he was really skinny and nervous, now he has filled out, looks healthy and is much more chilled out - and sarcoid free! I really think it was stress related.
 
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