Curious to hear updates from the omeprazole pop rocks users.
Anyone care to share?
Everyone seems to love them… so I’m giving them a try.
I am using them on my new TB and haven’t seen any change. That being said… he may just not have ulcers. There were a few indications he could have them, but nothing too convincing, but I thought I’d give them a try.
He’s out 24/7 right now, except an hour at each meal. I think I’m going to save the rest of the pop rocks and give them to him during the winter because he’s only out about 8 hours a day in the winter, and in for the rest. So he may start showing more signs of ulcers then, or need some prevention.
Mare completed the month treatment a few weeks ago. I still have a few packets left for any potential stressful situations over the winter (she more or less has the winter off) and will order more before spring.
Spookiness abated somewhat (hoped for a lot more) BUT she is now tearing into her grain and licking her feed bucket clean. A little sweeter and willing. A couple of months previous to the pop rocks she had been walking away from her grain which along with the spookiness/grumpiness led me to believe ulcers.
She wasn’t scoped.
I’m still waiting for mine to get here! My horse has a hard time keeping weight on and sometimes won’t finish his grain. He’s also a bit spooky. We’ll see soon enough if the pop rocks help.
I quite sure I’m seeing a calmer, more relaxed horse. I did the 20 days of free and then there was about a 4 day lapse until the other packets arrived. During that time he was a bit nutty, but during that time we had the hurricane so it’s hard to say if his nuttines came from the lapse or the storm.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you talking about actual pop rocks? You feed them to the horses?
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Forgive my ignorance, but are you talking about actual pop rocks? You feed them to the horses?[/QUOTE]
My recent order was refused entry into Canada. Omaprazoledirect tells me that are sending me another shipment and that this has never happened before. Need my pop rocks!
Oliver is on his maintenance dose of one packet every other day or so - when I go to ride him, I will give him some soaked alfalfa and sprinkle the pop rocks on that and let him munch while I tack up. He is just a hair on the chubby side, happy as can be, and on the lowest amount of grain he’s ever been in his life. So, I’d say that the pop rocks are working quite well!
I had been using the pop rocks at home only (1 packet a day) and then going back to Gastroguard for shows. I hauled out to a clinic last weekend and stuck to the Omeprezole pop rocks instead and had a laid back, mellow horse (too much so, in fact, according to the clinician). And, more importantly, he cleaned up every bit of his hay and grain each day. So I think I can say that I proved to myself that they worked the same as Gastroguard in a show-type environment…that’s a relief for my checkbook! 
I’m hoping that now that we’re in the off season I can wean my guy off of them until we get back to the spring again.
Fat and eager to eat EVERYTHING after pop rocks!
I’ll be starting my greenie on them shortly and will report back!
Keebler (stall rest) is not needing them right now because he’s actually acting pretty content and happy with tons of hay and no grain. When I haul him to MSU for his final vet-check and (hopefully) he gets the OK for turnout, I’ll put him on a few days ahead of that and for the week that follows. He gets just 1 pack per day. We’ll see how that goes, and when he goes back to ridden work in December I may put him on them again . . . for my own sake! :lol:
They did seem to make a GIGANTIC difference for him when he was rehabbing after surgery last fall and winter.
Boscoe is on them now for a course of 3-4 weeks (also one pack per day) because he was acting super, super anxious about everything after he came home with me. He is settling in, better every day, and I realize it will be hard to tell how much of the settling is just a young horse getting used to a new place and how much might be a stressed-out tummy feeling better, but I don’t care!
Bonnie doesn’t need pop rocks. The world belongs to Bonnie; there is nothing for her to get stressed out about except the random invisible monsters that seem to appear on XC courses. :lol:
I’m trying to reduce my mare’s dosage from a single packet per day. The first experiment didn’t work: I simply skipped a packet every third day. She was more anxious the day after the skipped dose, which lead me to experiment #2.
Experiment #2: Each packet contains approximately 3/8th teaspoon. First day I fed a full packet, next day 2/3 packet, and alternated that for 2 weeks. Now I’m on the second phase: 2/3 packet and 1/3 packet, alternating. So far, so good. If this continues to work for another week, I’ll go to 1/3 packet per day for a week or 10 days, then probably quit.
But when the grass is gone or she seems to think the scarey monsters are lurking behind the gates, back to full dose until next spring.
I’m into my second order of 100 packets. Next time I’m going for the 200 packets. I don’t intend to ever run out, and at $1.50 per day, I can afford to keep it up, even at the full dose.
My gelding began experiencing gas colic off and on this spring and was acting spooky. Absolutely lost his mind at a show in May, which is just not like him. Vet did a full blood panel, including a fibrinogen test, and said ulcers weren’t likely. So what’s causing it, doc? … no idea.
I got the pop rocks in July and started him on one packet a day. He got better, but then had a mild colic during a big weather change about a month later. So I upped it to two packets a day. voila No more colic. No more nuttiness.
We just got back from a 3-day breed show and he was perfect. No spookiness, no belly aches, he was forward and happy the whole time.
I’m going to make sure I never run out of this stuff either. It’s been a godsend.
I’ve used them on two horses and waiting for another supply for “when needed” times. I like it and found it to help my horses completely.
I do get annoyed with the shipping time though. The first time I ordered, I paid for priority and it took over a month to get. This time I did regular and it’s been 3 months and I still have not received my order.
My free trial order took about 3 weeks, then my completion order took a little over two weeks.
I’m doing two per day for two weeks, then will scale back to one per day and wean off to one every couple of days. My guy used to colic occasionally, but I started seeing tension over his abdomen as a precursor to the colics, so I try to keep that away. He seems just more comfortable in general. He’s such a mellow fellow, it was difficult to dx the ulcers in the first place, but it does seem to have been an issue for him. He’s the kind that internalizes everything, and then another physical limitation was the final straw and he had a pretty significant spasmodic colic.
Hope this takes care of it. Hope delivery doesn’t get to be an issue!
Wow. My orders have usually taken about 10 days. I’m getting down to the last third of the box. Maybe I better re-order now.
monstrpony, you’d never suspect my horse to be ulcer-prone, either. But unlike yours, he doesn’t internalize ANYTHING. You never have to guess what he’s thinking. He’ll tell you loud and clear if he likes or doesn’t like something. And his coat has always been glossy and he tends to be a very easy keeper.
So much for ulcery horses looking poor …
Still waiting for my “replacement” order. Getting worried.
My orders seem to take 10-14 days, regular delivery. I set aside 40 days worth and re-order when I start using them. Maybe I’m lucky but so far it’s worked.
