SpottedTApps
Nov. 10, 2009, 02:16 PM
I hope and pray that this is the case and I hope and pray it isn't.
I caught a glimps of the original thread on Friday. Super busy weekend, but thought about it, came back here to read yesterday. Stopped at the feedstore last night to buy Equimax and DD last night.
My mare is 21. I've owned her for 16 years. 3 years ago moved from CA to FL. 1 year ago she started scratching. Her neck. Her tail. It was bad and got worse. She was pregnant. Talk to vet. Used every topical out there. Can't treat with anything till she foals. By the time she foaled she had no mane and rubbed out her whole dock. Vets wanted her on Dex, but not while nursing. In the middle of the winter, her eye started clouding up. Within 2 days the vet was out and we started treatment. Within 6 days it was completely clouded over. Hauled her to UCF where they diagnosed glaucoma. Treated for 6 weeks then returned. No better. Made the decision to "kill the eye" and relieve the pressure.
Itching got worse, now bloody raw spots on neck, back, tail, belly. Was allowed to put her on small amount of Dex when foal was 3 months old. Weaned him at 4 months and ramped up the dex which was a HUGE relief to her. Now, 2 months later the sores are gone, but she still scratches and if, lord forbid, she goes more than 1 day without the Dex, she's rubbing furiously.
This mare has been super healthy her whole life. NEVER any issues. Yet all of this has happened in the last year.
It would be nice if this solved the problems and relieved her stress, but if this was the cause of all of this? I don't know how I'll live with it? Why wouldn't this be a suggestion of the vets down here? I've never heard of it, I'm not from the area. I'm sick with anticipation to see results.
I caught a glimps of the original thread on Friday. Super busy weekend, but thought about it, came back here to read yesterday. Stopped at the feedstore last night to buy Equimax and DD last night.
My mare is 21. I've owned her for 16 years. 3 years ago moved from CA to FL. 1 year ago she started scratching. Her neck. Her tail. It was bad and got worse. She was pregnant. Talk to vet. Used every topical out there. Can't treat with anything till she foals. By the time she foaled she had no mane and rubbed out her whole dock. Vets wanted her on Dex, but not while nursing. In the middle of the winter, her eye started clouding up. Within 2 days the vet was out and we started treatment. Within 6 days it was completely clouded over. Hauled her to UCF where they diagnosed glaucoma. Treated for 6 weeks then returned. No better. Made the decision to "kill the eye" and relieve the pressure.
Itching got worse, now bloody raw spots on neck, back, tail, belly. Was allowed to put her on small amount of Dex when foal was 3 months old. Weaned him at 4 months and ramped up the dex which was a HUGE relief to her. Now, 2 months later the sores are gone, but she still scratches and if, lord forbid, she goes more than 1 day without the Dex, she's rubbing furiously.
This mare has been super healthy her whole life. NEVER any issues. Yet all of this has happened in the last year.
It would be nice if this solved the problems and relieved her stress, but if this was the cause of all of this? I don't know how I'll live with it? Why wouldn't this be a suggestion of the vets down here? I've never heard of it, I'm not from the area. I'm sick with anticipation to see results.