Ulcers

[Romanylouise654]

Has anyone used the succeed fecal blood test to diagnose ulcers Is it accurate, is it worth the money or is scoping the only way to diagnose them?

 

[Bellaboo18]

Scoping is used to diagnose stomach ulcers, the succeed test is used to diagnose hind gut ulcers but the test is well known to be very inaccurate, even the succeed website states it.

 

[olop]

I would only ever scope for ulcers, the scope itself is not very expensive (I paid £140 for the last one I did in January) it’s just the starvation that puts me off doing anymore. I didn’t think there was a reliable method of checking for hind gut ulcers as they can’t get far enough down the gut? Another way would be doing a sulfracate trial if displaying symptoms and seeing if it makes a difference?

 

[Romanylouise654]

Scoping is used to diagnose stomach ulcers, the succeed test is used to diagnose hind gut ulcers but the test is well known to be very inaccurate, even the succeed website states it.

Ahh right so is scoping the only way to diagnose them or is there any other way?

 

[Romanylouise654]

I would only ever scope for ulcers, the scope itself is not very expensive (I paid £140 for the last one I did in January) it’s just the starvation that puts me off doing anymore. I didn’t think there was a reliable method of checking for hind gut ulcers as they can’t get far enough down the gut? Another way would be doing a sulfracate trial if displaying symptoms and seeing if it makes a difference?

I think I will have to get her scoped. The starvation is what's putting me off aswell as she's a very greedy cob that loves her food

 

[Bellaboo18]

Ahh right so is scoping the only way to diagnose them or is there any other way?

Yes it's the only way to diagnose stomach ulcers. The scope doesn't reach as far as the hind gut so if you scope and the stomach is clear but the symptoms are still there, you can treat the hind gut.
It's worth scoping as different types of ulcers need different treatment. I've had my mare scoped twice, once to diagnose and once to check they'd gone (which they had). She coped absolutely fine, came in for the night, tucked in to her hay and then at 10pm I took her haynet away. I think we worry about leaving them with nothing more than they worry about it as a one off.

 

[MereChristmas]

We found scoping wasn’t too bad if you book for 9-10 a.m. If I remember correctly the ‘starving ‘ time with absolutely nothing was mostly the travel to the vets in the early morning.

 

[pocket_dressage]

I haven’t used this myself but was speaking with my physio recently about testing and she mentioned she had a client who had success with this test. Can’t find many reviews for it online so think I’m going to commit to the scope but just thought I’d still share https://www.thetestclinic.com/gut-e...Aw1tBeIiTqzQwi1qxx7x3TwH3CsFshteGKRR_H9cA7HIQ