Scoping. What to expect?

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The vet is coming to see Poppy and is going to scope her. She is quite a baby with anything like that. Will he sedate her and what can I expect after? Will she be sore? Any tips?
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Is this scoping for ulcers? In which case she'll be sedated but still standing, then they put the endoscope up the nose and down the throat into the stomach - the horse's are a bit fidgety when it passes the swallow reflex but on the whole tolerate it well.

They are back to normal within 10 mins of the procedure being over - in fact mine was kicking the lorry for his haynet before the vet had gathered the drugs together for me!

Mine has shown no signs of being even remotely bothered by it afterwards, no soreness etc, and I could have ridden later that day had I wanted to.
 
No, shouldn't think so...though it will be going a different way
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If it is anything like the gastroscopy then it will be very similar to the above, so shouldn't leave her sore etc.
 
Vet wouldn't scope mine when his airways were looked at, he said it could make them appear lazy (due to muscles relaxing) when they weren't.

I'm trying to think back to when mine was scoped... It was done in the stable and the vet put the camera (??) up his nose and down into airway. Pony hated it, really had to pin him down to do it but the vet wouldn't sedate. He wanted to see how the airways looked without sedation. Pony settled down after a few minutes and just glared at us both.

No tips at all I'm afraid. I don't know if mine was sore after or not - there was nothing to suggest he was, no blood or anything nasty either. He just sort of sneezed a couple of times after the scope was taken out and carried on eating his hay.
 
Thanks for that SC and CC. Hope she will keep still if not sedated, she gets so het up if you try to do anything like that. Oh well!! Guess I'll just have to wait and see.
 
My last horse kept having small recurrent nosebleeds and in the end he was scoped and they checked his nose, throat, airways, and his gutteral pouch but gutteral pouches are apparently a total nightmare to scope and they could only get inside one to check. He was fine and once the sedation had worn off he was able to eat and be turned out.
 
hi, the vet scoped my tb,s airways. he was sedated,he remained standing, then they put tube up his nose, he coughed when it went past his throat and he fidgeted when it was all the way in. the vet let me have a look at the camera and asked me to hold tube whilst he tried to get a sample of fluid. just as we got some fluid out my horse flinched and we lost it all! so had to repeat that :-o after vet took out the tube i just walked smokey back to his field and he was fine. i was a bit nervous at the start but the experience was fine really.
 
My mare was scoped on Friday for Gastreic Ulcers. It took quite a while to get her dry and cool enough to eat afterwards, she also had a major nosebleed as the tube came out, but apparently thats only a 1 in 10 chance.

I can honestly say once she was cool and dry she was totally back to normal. You wouldn't have know apart form the bloody nose.

I had my other mare scoped for airways and she wasn't even sedated for that.

Try not to worry!

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It's really fascinating to see - if your vet doesn't offer you the opportunity to look ASK!

Unless obviously naughty many vets don't sedate - it's not unduly uncomfortable - the tube is slimi and well lubricated so it passes cleanly up the nose and through the back into the lungs.

You know pretty early on if they are going to be naughty and if so then vet will sedate.

Just make sure that he is wide awake again before turning out.
 
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