Hello! I've just discovered this group and I'm bucking etiquette by posting before completing my horse's Case History but I have a time-sensitive inquiry: I have a confirmed IR mare, 20yo drafty-cross

I just got the Cornell ACTH results back and I'm desperate to know if I should start pergolide. I can no longer control my mare's insulin levels with diet & exercise alone. I am working on her finishi

Hi Lavinia, Thank you so much for the reply. I am writing out my CH now but here's some quick replies to your queries: Before I found this group, I was resorting to what I called the "Starvation Diet"

UPDATE: Just got the Leptin back, which completes the Cornell paneL-- Leptin: 4.19ng/mL (ref 1-4 ng/mL) endogenous ACTH: 36.6pg/mL (ref 9-35) insulin: 64.99uIU/mL (ref 10-40) glucose: 113 (ref 71-113)

Lisa, Thanks so much for your input. All of the responses from the group are incredibly helpful! I havent ever obtained rads bc, tbh, my mare has never been truly unsound (in an orthopedic sense). Sti

I cannot figure out how to post my CH, and I'm at my breaking point. Can I send it to someone for salvaging? It is far from complete but its a start. Kerry

OK, not to be a drama queen, but yahoogroups just erased my message before I could send it and I'm at my &$^#(@ breaking point. Basically it said, I am unable to get my CH posted. I can't even figure

Im a new member trying to upload my CH. When I go to EChistory8, I am told "Oops! You need to be a member" What does that mean? I've filled out and saved my CH as a .pdf but can't get past that point.

THANK YOU! I successfully made a folder & uploaded my CH.... is it possible to add a second page to the comments so that I can make a timeline of the bloodwork and diet changes? I couldn't fit anymore

Hi! I am a (very) new member who is also a Lic. Vet. Tech. so I draw blood and prepare samples for handling all the time. I also just drew & sent the PPID panel to Cornell on my own mare (successfully

Thanks so much Lisa, I cannot begin to express my gratitude for you and so many others on this list taking an interest in my mare's case. I had somewhat of a revelation last night after re-reading eve

How do I find out if there are still openings for the 10/6 course w/o having to register first? Do I email Dr. Kellon directly? I don't want to jam up her box with silly questions if I should be inqui

As requested, body shots and hoof pics are posted in Album "Pinky" in ECHistory8. I'll post more pics after she's body clipped so her true physique can be assessed; right now feral fur is masking her

Hi Laura, i cant answer abt the banana question but wanted to ask about pergolide & showing: do you take him off of it before shows in case you are tested, or was he disgnosed after show season? (With

Hi Kendra, in your experience, can you file w USEF for pergolide? My vet had told me no, that's its a banned substance. When i spoke to USEF last year about levothyroxine, they said that unless im sho

Sue, thanks for the very helpful response. Withdrawing meds for only one day would have to be much less taxing on a horse than being on & off its pergolide for weeks at a time like the show ponies my

Cyproheptadine is used as an appetite stimulant in small animal medicine (particularly cats). That might be where the thought process is coming from... Kerry in NY Sept 2014

Drs. Little & Gockowski-- Thanks for the levity afforded by your ivory tower espousals--it sure breaks the tedium of dealing with actual problems like laminitis, euthanasia, and heartbreak. A good chu

Anecdotally, does PPID and/or pergolide seem to exacerbate vaccine reactions? My 20yo mare responded very well to recent initiation of pergolide 1mg -- within days she felt tremendously improved under

Thank you Dr. Kellon, all very interesting stuff. FWIW, here's what has happened with my mare since I last posted: Sat 10/25--on 1mgPrascend x7d--feels fantastic!--blood drawn for ACTH/Insulin/Lyme--a