libbyandblue
Well-Known Member
So for those of you how know me, my eventer got diagnosed with metabolic syndrome last year after he came down with unexpected laminitis after doing our first novice at Oatridge where he hit a big table and got eliminated at the water after, very unlike him, so we thought he lost his confidence but looking back he could have sore feet. He was off from June to September and now back in full work, and finally sold 
(fingers crossed!! he was meant to be sold at the end of summer before I went to uni but obviously couldn't). My sister went down to Liverpool to the vet school as she might be doing a Phd in equine obesity, and there were some top vets there who were asking about my horse. They asked what tests our vets did, they just did a simple blood glucose test (can't remember what its called) which showed high levels of glucose and they then diagnosed him from that. Apparently they shouldn't have diagnosed him at all. There are loads more tests to do to actually prove the reason why his glucose levels were so high - que very annoyed sisters!! It seems to be a fairly new disease and vets just want to diagnose everything with it, I'd never heard of it, but now another one of our ponies (who had been sold on a couple of times) got put down of it, and I know a couple of others with it too.
It was so annoying, because we advertised him saying he had EMS, and he was on metformin tablets for 3/4 months which are very expensive, and there may not have been any need for it at all. He was fasted before the test was taken, he was also run on hard ground at Oatridge, and there were many other factors to show that he could've actually had laminitis caused by stress/concussion. I know it could be EMS, but we will never know now!!
So has anyone else had vets jumping to conclusions? Or anything similar to the EMS problem?
(fingers crossed!! he was meant to be sold at the end of summer before I went to uni but obviously couldn't). My sister went down to Liverpool to the vet school as she might be doing a Phd in equine obesity, and there were some top vets there who were asking about my horse. They asked what tests our vets did, they just did a simple blood glucose test (can't remember what its called) which showed high levels of glucose and they then diagnosed him from that. Apparently they shouldn't have diagnosed him at all. There are loads more tests to do to actually prove the reason why his glucose levels were so high - que very annoyed sisters!! It seems to be a fairly new disease and vets just want to diagnose everything with it, I'd never heard of it, but now another one of our ponies (who had been sold on a couple of times) got put down of it, and I know a couple of others with it too. It was so annoying, because we advertised him saying he had EMS, and he was on metformin tablets for 3/4 months which are very expensive, and there may not have been any need for it at all. He was fasted before the test was taken, he was also run on hard ground at Oatridge, and there were many other factors to show that he could've actually had laminitis caused by stress/concussion. I know it could be EMS, but we will never know now!!
So has anyone else had vets jumping to conclusions? Or anything similar to the EMS problem?
