Our Welsh Morgan pony has developed a mass of small sarcoids in his hind sheath area. They are not ulcerated but there is a clump of small lumps covering about a 2 inch hairless area, and one small lump is starting to look irriated. I had a vet check them previously (actually two vets) but they thought it was a bug bite and it’s grown over the winter on the underside of the sheath pocket (external, but tucked up so not easily visible). My new vet said it’s not a good candidate for excision because of the location and likelihood of scarring which could restrict movement, although it’s possible UC Davis could do laser surgery. She suggested trying Aldara, but said it can be pretty painful. I could take him to UC Davis, which I know has a radiation procedure, and then I’ve read up on cisplatin beads, which look like it might be less painful. Any suggestions or recent experiences?
My horse had a few smaller sarcoids (less than 1 1/2 inch diameter) on his hind sheath area. Since they grew from their initial 1/2 inch size my vet felt that it would be best to have them removed before they became larger and deeper.
I had the sarcoids removed at a local vet hospital, and the procedure went well. He was on stall rest for a bit, and then some hand walking…and then one day I looked at his wound and he had completely tore it open. I’m talking a gaping hole that you could fit atleast 2 golf balls in. It would be quite difficult to re-stitch, so I basically had to let this gaping hole heal itself, and it did. Quite quickly, and now he has a small scar. So, even after that ordeal, all was well in a short amount of time.
There are no issues with scar or movement around the area. I would get a consult from an actual vet that does surgeries. So I would take the horse to the vet hospital for an assessment.
There was a horse at Rustle’s previous barn that had a huge sarcoid on his ear. Part of it was surgically removed but it started growing back so I researched and found this stuff,
http://www.balancedecosolutions.com/order-products/
It worked amazingly well and wasn’t caustic. Call them and ask questions. They were super helpful when I did. If my guy ever gets sarcoids, I would go with these products in a heart beat.
i know people poo poo home remedies but ive had success on the small warty ones, a crusty flaky one and a big flat one using thuja mixed with turmeric… didnt make them sore and the warty and flaky ones were gone in a month.
the flat one was harder to shift but it halved in size very quickly (2 weeks i reckon) and then continued to slowly diminish over 2 months and now its just a smooth tiny black circle about the size of a apple pip (at its largest it was raised and fleshy feeling and approx 50p size)
I used generic Aldara (imiquimod, $120, from Target) on the sarcoid on my horse’s face 1 1/2 years ago. It is terrific stuff. He had a huge local reaction to the cream after about the 3rd application. An area of skin about 3 times the size of the visible sarcoid swelled and peeled. Oddly, the terrible looking area seemed to be a little itchy, but not painful. He didn’t like it when I soaked off the scab to apply more cream, but he cooperated. I had to stop the imiquimod after only 6 uses over 2 weeks because the area looked so awful that I thought I was looking at his facial bones. The ugly area scabbed and healed. He has no scar. You cannot tell there was ever a sarcoid. It looks totally normal. I highly recommend the imiquimod cream.
I took my horse to UT to have the beads (mine was actually rods, but same thing) put in. I’m reading the paperwork right now and I’m having a hard time deciding if it was only the rods or if there was another form of radiation as well. It says she was “hospitalized on the 29th of August to wait for brachytherapy, which was provided by equipment brought to our facility by an oncologist working at a neighboring small animal private practice.” the next line then reads “radiotherapy was provided on September 2nd with the horse anesthetized. The amount of ionizing radiation delivered to the center of the tumor was 18 grays”.
So im not sure if that was all one thing or if it was 2 separate forms of radiation. Regardless, it was on her eyelid and hung down on her eye. It was about the size of a golf ball. FYI, if the first attempt at removal fails, they come back with a vengeance and grow crazy fast. Ask me how I know. It’s been 2.5 years now and no sign of it returning. It’s a scar now and adds character to her face. Lots of people compliment her cool marking. Lol
ill see if I can find the paper work on the first treatment we did. I know it was experimental. Auburn created it or something. My horse was a test subject. It didn’t work. Obviously.
