This post is so eye opening for me. Yet again learned something new! As I am very very new to this game (IR and PPID) with my horse, I am struggling and learning as I go. I am just about to post about

It is OK to feed oats to our horses? -- Kathy 2017 and Donna Harrowsmith, Ontario https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Kathy%20and%20Donna

Hi Anne, Firstly, breathe. Dr. Kellon has already addressed some of your concerns: If the sample was mishandled, the ACTH result would be lowered, not falsely raised but no need to panic. One of my

Thanks Sherry! I'll get on that today. Best, Anne

Thanks Dr. Kellon. To be clear, she's not currently on anything. I hadn't had her tested since 2016 since she was never symptomatic - lesson learned. I imagine I need to get her going on something?

To update this, I had decided to go the Invokana route, and my vet was out earlier this week to do bloodwork to check liver/kidney function before we started the new medication. I asked her to also

Hi Anne, For your CH since you're using the old form you may want to update to the new one if you don't have an editable form saved on your device. Information on how to do your CH is available on the

Another hassle to get proper testing. Why don’t 20 of us do a test. Test acth and insulin with biotin and retest xxx number of days again, without biotin? II know my biotin is included in my custom

The ACTH rise is normally gone by December but may linger in horses with PPID including early cases. I would wait until late December or January to retest. There is no danger of oversuppression of

Anne, All you know at this point is that her current dosage is not enough to control the rise numbers which, as you have seen, can be quite dramatic - especially in a horse with PPID. Your feeding

Ok thanks Dr. Kellon. The last xrays according to my vet didn’t show issues with her navicular bone or anything to lead us to her lameness issues. As it is primarily her right front foot that is the

Interference has been reported with human doses as low as 5 mg, the equivalent of 20 mg for a horse. -- Eleanor in PA www.drkellon.com EC Owner 2001

You might want to consider a work up with nerve blocks and new radiographs. Be sure to include navicular views. -- Eleanor in PA www.drkellon.com EC Owner 2001

This Martha? I have an lengthy relationship with pergolide but it began with extensive regular testing. When I asked my vet how my results compared to others, she told me that I was unique among

The seasonal rise is a normal physiological phenomenon which temporarily releases control on the pars intermedia probably as a secondary effect to hypothalamic changes needed to trigger the winter

Hello, yes I have xrays but they are not current and from 2018 as well as back when she had her DDFT injury. They are under her hoof album and I will get these moved over to one album soon. --

Do you have radiographs? Doesn't sound likely this is laminitis. If you are going to stop or reduce pergolide I would wait for November. The small bump in insulin could be related to weather. --

Whole oats going right through? Check the manure, pull out the suspected whole oats, squeeze them open to see if the kernel is still there or is it just an empty hull. Appearances can be deceiving. -

Whole oats is fine. Research has shown processing does not improve the digestibility of oats, unlike other grains. The hulls aren't even fermented well so they so up in the manure - but empty. Oil

Hi Daisy, My experience feeding straight oats goes back to the dark ages, but at the time crimped were recommended for the horses to get the best nutrition as the whole oats were expected to go right