I don’t have experience with the Aldara but just for info purposes since the product has been mentioned, thought I’d throw in the mix that the Xterra did wonders for my mare.
She had a good half-dozen sarcoids on her when I bought her, including one right in the girth area, and the Xterra got rid of all of them. I’ve had her for eight years and not one has returned, nor have there been any new ones. I am so thankful for how well that product worked!
Resurrecting this thread b/c my mare has a sarcoid in her ear. I found the Minn. study on Aldara and am talking w/ my vet about trying that.
I’m confused about a few things–first, I don’t see it offered in a tube–just in 1-dose packets. See here on Canadian Pharmacy:
http://www.canadapharmacy.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product/product_id/1326.htm
I called my local pharmacy and their quote for the generic was $900 for a 36-pack!!! 3X a week for 16 weeks = 48 treatments, so the 36-pack wouldn’t even be enough!
I don’t see a tube on Canadian Pharm either–still the 1-dose packets.
The last time I ordered something from them, it was opened at the border and sent back–I never got my item and it was a huge PITA. Have folks had better luck than that ordering drugs from Canada?
I guess I’ll order a 12 pack and see how it goes? Has anyone else been using it since this thread died?
Thanks!!
Just wiped out a sarcoid with Aldara cream.
Cost…250.00 for a months supply. Ended up only needing half, so my vet bought the other half from me. So total treatment was around 125.00 for this particular horse.
You rub it on with a glove (or at least I did)…very small amount…after about two days, it literally starts rotting off your horse…it’s gross…but it does not affect healthy tissue. My gelding had a hole where the tumor was…
Took about a week for the tissue to fill in.
Vet likes Aldara the best because he says that it will wipe the tumor out and he has never seen it reappear using this cream.
I actually have pictures…LOL. I’ll have to put them in a photobucket account so you can see them.
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Resurrecting this thread b/c my mare has a sarcoid in her ear. I found the Minn. study on Aldara and am talking w/ my vet about trying that.
I’m confused about a few things–first, I don’t see it offered in a tube–just in 1-dose packets. See here on Canadian Pharmacy:
http://www.canadapharmacy.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product/product_id/1326.htm
I called my local pharmacy and their quote for the generic was $900 for a 36-pack!!! 3X a week for 16 weeks = 48 treatments, so the 36-pack wouldn’t even be enough!
I don’t see a tube on Canadian Pharm either–still the 1-dose packets.
The last time I ordered something from them, it was opened at the border and sent back–I never got my item and it was a huge PITA. Have folks had better luck than that ordering drugs from Canada?
I guess I’ll order a 12 pack and see how it goes? Has anyone else been using it since this thread died?
Thanks!![/QUOTE]
Why so many treatments…I only used it twice a week. And in two weeks that sucker was gone. I don’t know if it comes in a tube…it came in one dose packets from my pharmacy.
My vet even told me that you can sometimes stretch the packet and use half at a time.
It certainly didn’t take much with my guy.
sarcoid treatments
This is a timely post for me. Thank you for the information on Aldara. I’m going to keep this in mind should I need it in the future.
As I understand it, what treatment used depends on where the sarcoid is located. Four very small sarcoids located on the body of my horse (rice grain to pencil eraser size) were all treated successfully with Exterra. It’s been 5 years since the earliest sarcoid was removed and no reappearance in that location has been observed.
Over the past 9 months one sarcoid was actively growing in the horse’s ear. This one grew to the size of a cherry tomato with 9 months. It oozed a sticky serous fluid and at times bled thus attracting a lot of flies. Surgery was the recommended treatment. So far things are looking very good for that ear but of course there is the possibility that the sarcoid will return. If it does it will be treated with a chemotherapeutic agent but I understand exterra is not what will be recommended.
Thanks for the tip on Aldara. I will ask my vet about that.
I’ve used Aldara on squamous cell carcinomas on his eyelid. Fabulous drug, HORRIBLE treatment, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat. It saved my horse’s good eye.
Cost was $90 for a 3 TINY tubes, one tube per treatment. I was able to use half a pouch for the last round because the area had shrunk enough. Think of the size of the little foil things you can get makeup samples in out of magazines. See here: http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/rm/3k/aldara-200X200.jpg - I paid $90 for three of those little packets. We purchased them directly from a human pharmacy because the amount my vet needed to purchase was crazy.
The Aldara made a huge difference in the cancer. It completely removed three of the tiny tumors, and ate a huge amount of the large tumor away. We had to do 3 treatments per week, and because of side effects I ended up not doing the full six weeks at a time treatment, but broke them up into smaller cycles. After the third or fourth cycle which was the only one that wasn’t effective, I chose to take him to an expert to discuss surgery. Prior to starting Aldara the tumor was so large he would have lost the eye because of the damage to the eyelid. After Aldara the tumor had shrunk enough that the surgery was pretty uneventful and we were able to remove the tumor completely without losing his eye. Since he’s blind in the other eye, this was very important.
NOW, the side effects. OMG this stuff irritated him. There was one other horse at our vet getting the same treatment and the owners actually ended up having him stay at the clinic because they couldn’t handle putting him through the treatment. It is a VERY painful treatment, the swelling and irritation is horrible. We would start out with no problem getting the first treatment on, because Pi is very good for the vet, the second would take two people and a struggle, and the third 2-3 people and a twitch, plus sedation. It was awful watching him go through it, and worse on him. He lost a ton of weight because of the pain (ended up on daily bute while on the treatment) and was unable to navigate his surroundings because the pain overwhelmed his normal senses (blindness, you know). Luckily he was in a stall and I have a fabulous BO who took extra time when leading him, though she did insist that he have a halter on at all times because he wouldn’t let you near his head.
Here are some pictures of his eye - though it’s hard to show swelling and just how painful it was in pictures. Most of these pictures are after one or two treatments … and they just kept getting worse.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127755&id=787364103&l=a6bee7e051
At one point we finally said we were done, and I couldn’t put him through another round. Even the vet commented that Pi was “done with us messing with his eye” when he went to remove his stitches. I wouldn’t change the treatment, because it saved his eye, but I did hit the breaking point of how much suffering I could cause, even in the name of good. I lost a lot of Pi’s trust and it took me months to get it back. But he is cancer free, still has his “good” eye (he only has 30% vision in that one anyway) and is very happy, active and healthy today.
i have several packs left. had one removed by surgery on a front leg that was over a rather large blood vessel. the aldara really works. i will sell it for what i bought it for from the vet i work for.
My mare with sarcoids
I just discovered my seven-year-old Dutch WB mare has three sarcoids near her udder. She has just started on Aldara cream. My veterinarian said to apply it to these three areas every day until it looks like it’s had a reaction and then call him to see how much we were going to apply and how often. A mare in the same barn had sarcoids in her ear and the vet (a different vet) recommended applying the Aldara cream every other day for, I think, 3 weeks. It did make the area very raw but then that whole crusted area fell off and the sarcoids disappeared. I’m hoping that I will have good luck with the treatment. One of her sarcoids near her udder is big like a tumor, almost the size of a cherry. The other two are flat and almost look like ringworm. I’m really encouraged by reading all the good results on this thread.
Question, does one sarcoid spread to create another on the same horse? I read that they are not contagious from horse to horse. It sounds to me like they are quite common.
Any additional information will be greatly appreaciated. BTW, my vet called the prescription in to Costco and the whole thing for like 3 weeks of treatment was only $38 with a Costco card he said it used to be a couple hundred dollar treatment. he was surprised how inexpensive it has become. 
Costco carries it very inexpensively!
FYI, I ended up with the vet using cisplarin beads. Worked beautifully.
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Search COTH forum for Sarcoid Trial. My young horse has a pea size lump near his withers. I use the turmeric/ DMSO paste as. Recommended. With in a week it fell off. Do search FaceBook for Sarcoid Trial page. Thin skinned TB never objected to the “Golden Paste”. The lump is gone but I still use paste on the area and feed turmeric (I have fed Turmeric for its anti inflammatory help anyway. Horses seem to eat it fine but is turns a tub yellow
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