IrishMilo
Well-Known Member
Sorry I know this has been asked a lot, but I genuinely can’t make my mind up and I keep going back and forth!
Rocky was scoped on the 22nd Jan for ulcers, following a vet stay and a yard move which triggered some very severe behaviour. He had multiple grade 2 and 3 ulcers, one was actively bleeding. This was the first time in a year that he had ever been ulcery.
Treatment was:
- 2 weeks of oral omeprazole and sucralfate while waiting to be scoped
- 4 omeprazole injections every 6 days plus twice daily sucralfate
- A subsequent 14 days of oral Gastroguard (one week at full dose and the second week at half dose) and another tub’s worth of twice daily sucralfate
He is 90% back to normal and due to be rescoped mid March but I’m worried that scoping him again is just going to set us back to square one. Any new thing or change is always very anxiety inducing for him.
Scoping at my own yard was a nightmare, they were 3 hours late and he was climbing the walls, so I decided it would be less stress potentially for the both of us to drop him off the night before where he’s not expecting to go out with the others etc. He’s a crap patient, weaves like crazy if stressed/at first light and it always takes 2 or 3 doses of IV to actually knock him out.
The only thing is I’m having his SI injected at the same time (which is pretty much the only thing left to rule out of a really extensive work up.)
I will absolutely kick myself if he flares up again after more vet care but also want to know where we’re at ulcer wise.
Thoughts? (Also accepting wine
)
Rocky was scoped on the 22nd Jan for ulcers, following a vet stay and a yard move which triggered some very severe behaviour. He had multiple grade 2 and 3 ulcers, one was actively bleeding. This was the first time in a year that he had ever been ulcery.
Treatment was:
- 2 weeks of oral omeprazole and sucralfate while waiting to be scoped
- 4 omeprazole injections every 6 days plus twice daily sucralfate
- A subsequent 14 days of oral Gastroguard (one week at full dose and the second week at half dose) and another tub’s worth of twice daily sucralfate
He is 90% back to normal and due to be rescoped mid March but I’m worried that scoping him again is just going to set us back to square one. Any new thing or change is always very anxiety inducing for him.
Scoping at my own yard was a nightmare, they were 3 hours late and he was climbing the walls, so I decided it would be less stress potentially for the both of us to drop him off the night before where he’s not expecting to go out with the others etc. He’s a crap patient, weaves like crazy if stressed/at first light and it always takes 2 or 3 doses of IV to actually knock him out.
The only thing is I’m having his SI injected at the same time (which is pretty much the only thing left to rule out of a really extensive work up.)
I will absolutely kick myself if he flares up again after more vet care but also want to know where we’re at ulcer wise.
Thoughts? (Also accepting wine
)
