That is why all my discussions with folks about supplements comes with “your mileage may vary” in regards to how well a supplement may work for a given horse in a given situation. Some supplements may have a positive result within 30 days, some may take the better part of a year to notice (and likely stopped before then). There are so many variables from genetics and metabolism, management, forage and feed, exercise or lack thereof.
I bet I wouldn’t be able to use GoodRX on it. The pharmacies around here wouldn’t honor it for the Steglatro. I’m paying about $380ish a month for the Steglatro and it adds up.
That extra peeing is a thing isn’t it? We’ve changed Peanut’s name to Peenut. His stall is a swamp. I know it’s the drug working as its supposed to but the amount is just mind boggling coming from a 255 lb mini.
Did you do bloodwork for kidneys and liver when your horse was on Canagliflozin?
That’s too bad. I didn’t have any issues using it with Walgreens. It was cheaper than Costco and other pharmacies when I called around to price check.
We did monitor at the beginning along with triglycerides (as he was losing a lot of weight, we expected triglycerides to spike temporarily). After a while we just monitored glucose and insulin. It’s weird how it doesn’t seem to affect glucose levels in horses even though it’s a T2D drug for people, and of course is working as expected with the peeing.
I’ve been told this anecdotally. I’ll look for the research. Thank you.
@MorganMaresVT, thank you!! I was actually looking for the research that show seasonal rise for insulin. I’ll read the entire article. Maybe it addresses it in the text. Thank you again!
Wow! Fascinating!!! Thank you!!!
Ah, reading too fast and thought we were talking about ACTH values in a PPID horse, which is what my brain associates with seasonal rise! Sorry about that, glad you got a link to the correct answer.
PSA
Try Walmart. I saw a sign in my local Walmart that they will fill Pet Med prescriptions.
I work at a large barn with 33 horses. Three are on Pergolide. The farm switched them to the Chewy liquid. One will eat the liquid in his food. M gets a decent amount of Senior Active food. The two ponies only get a ration balancer and will not eat their food if it has the compounded Pergolide. It is really easy to give it orally with the syringes they provide.
The one pony will eat it in her grain when she is on field board since she does not want anyone to eat her meal. In the stall, nope it is poison. Sometimes she will eat it in the stall if we add a handful of sweet feed or Senior.
When we give the one pony her .5 orally she does the flip the lip thing. I think we are using apple flavor. I am guessing she doesn’t love it. But it does the job.
In general I find the liquid from Chewy much easier than the name brand pills
Have you checked their ACTH numbers recently? Mine will certainly take the liquid (currently we’re dissolving the pills and adding molasses in a dosing syringe), but I want to be sure it works as well as prascend.
The Chewy’s powdered molasses is my picky ponies top choice. He will lick it out of my hand. He didn’t mind the apple flavored liquid, but he hated the marshmallow.
I’ve run blood tests and his numbers are very similar on 1 mg of Chewy’s meds vs 1 pill of the name brand. His numbers were lower on compounded meds. Mainly cause he eats it.
Regretfully my boss does not test. She bases things on body condition. Truthfully only 1 of the 3 is probably actually Cushing’s. The other 2 are probably IR. But who knows since if they were tested it was before I got there 4 years ago