We have an 8yr mini mare who has had chronic laminitis. My mom had been giving her bute to help with the pain, it's what we have always done for our mini's. She took a turn for the worse a couple of weeks ago. She presented with what looked like bloody urine so they did bloodwork and decided she had Cushings and wanted to start her on Peroglide. After one dose of that she ended up with bloody diarrhea. She has gone off her food, not drinking, dropped a significant amount of weight, keeps looking at her stomach like it hurts or something. Her stools became very dry and the vet had us start her on Red Cell supplement. Then we started seeing blood in her stool again but it wasn't diarrhea.
She gets unsweetened beet pulp and grass hay. That's all either of them get because we are trying so hard to keep both of them sound and have had so many problems with them foundering. We keep them off the pasture in the spring and summer and only let them have pasture in the winter when everything is dry and dead. My mom used to give a senior feed for mini's but the vet told her to stop cause it was causing the laminitis. So now the vet is saying her ACTH is low normal and he thinks she has ulcers so he is prescribing Gastroguard.
Any advice/suggestions??? We are getting really worried about her, she is so very lethargic and just barely picks at her food.
She gets unsweetened beet pulp and grass hay. That's all either of them get because we are trying so hard to keep both of them sound and have had so many problems with them foundering. We keep them off the pasture in the spring and summer and only let them have pasture in the winter when everything is dry and dead. My mom used to give a senior feed for mini's but the vet told her to stop cause it was causing the laminitis. So now the vet is saying her ACTH is low normal and he thinks she has ulcers so he is prescribing Gastroguard.
Any advice/suggestions??? We are getting really worried about her, she is so very lethargic and just barely picks at her food.