Scoping, what go expect?

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My 12yr ex racer needs to be scoped as he's been "off" for a few months, dropped loads of weight and now has changes in his mood. When touching tummy tried to bite,

Reason it not done sooner because vets wanted to try a change of feed first.

But bloods taken and came back clear apart from one thing that shows up when underweight ( can't remember name)

Anyway. What are we in for? I'm nervous and he's such a good horse, tells me when something is wrong or he's unhappy

Is it unpleasant?
 
circuit dancer said:
My 12yr ex racer needs to be scoped as he's been "off" for a few months, dropped loads of weight and now has changes in his mood. When touching tummy tried to bite,

Reason it not done sooner because vets wanted to try a change of feed first.

But bloods taken and came back clear apart from one thing that shows up when underweight ( can't remember name)

Anyway. What are we in for? I'm nervous and he's such a good horse, tells me when something is wrong or he's unhappy

Is it unpleasant?
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See if you can view Prof Celia Marr's lecture on weight loss on the WBFSH website under Delegate Conference 2012 and Lewis's on scoping
 
Its a very interesting day.
The worst bit would be starving your horse for 12hrs but it wasn't as bad as I expected. Once at the vets the procedure was straight forward and it was very clear and obvious what you could see. Makes a nice change from x-rays when I can't make head or tail of them !

Good luck. Hope he's insured.
 
The vets said I can take him and pick him up in the same day. But I'm unsure on how stressful that Wud be. But then how he might be better sleeping in his own stable.
 
I did that. The appointment was quite early. So he was stabled at home, I just got to yard, loaded him up and left. Didn't have to worry about being around him whilst he demanded something to eat. They worked on him as soon as I got there and shortly afterwards I could take him home again. Had to wait a little while whilst he recovered from the sedation. He didn't seem to get stressed about it at all.

He was shivering in the morning though, so I would put an extra rug on as they lose heat from not eating.
 
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Hi mine was sent to Leahurst for
Scoping starved the night before
And was on the lorry at 7am
, I dodnt have Any
Problems with being him being starved , he must of known something was going on as just stood in back of stable and didnt kick his door for his breakfast , scoping itself insnt that invasive mine got scanned also while he was there , mine stayed the night to allow time for recovery and
Is colic prone x when is he going to get scoped x
 
Same as others have said.. worst oart is the starvation.. i dropped my boy off the night before and they checked on him during the night.

The scoping its self take around 45 mins or so and very interesting to watch. Horse is sedated beforehand and the endoscooe fed up through the nose. If was all very calm and my lad didnt take much notice.
 
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