I wanted to give everyone an update.
I put 2 horses on Nexium. One is my 7yo pony. (Photo in the thread). The other my 23yo TB.
I wasn’t sure my pony had ulcers. I did not see any real changes with him with the Nexium - 3 pills 2x a day. AND he was never off his feed, etc. He was just very spooky. It turns out he has EPM. So he is being treated with that and is much better.
My TB mare had never been treated with anything for ulcers. I’ve had her since she was 4 and she is now 23. She has always been a picky eater and preferred hay to her grain. Often wouldn’t even finish her grain. Well now she is an eating machine! She won’t leave her stall because she hasn’t eaten every last drop of grain. She begs for treats and will eat any kind. (She wouldn’t do either in the past.) She just seems happier overall. I did 4 weeks 2x a day then 2 weeks once a day then took her off. I put her on 3 once a day when she had a bout with laminitis (She has PPID and insulin resistance) and I had her on 2g of bute 2x a day for a while. She never went back to not eating again.
And I just can’t believe the 180 degree turn around in her eating. So that would be a success story.
My pony isn’t but again, I really wasn’t convinced he had ulcers I the first place.
