Thank you Sherry! I will up his vitamin E dosage and look into the acetyl-l-carnitine! I appreciate it! Thank you EdieFr! Yes mino seems the most promising so I think I'm going to just treat with it.

Hi Martha! Thank you for your response. Not to worry - I will still be treating him as IR as I'd rather not take any chances! Yes the first insulin test when he was diagnosed IR was done fasting. His

Hello! I recently had Bucky's tested for Lyme disease because he was just having too many symptoms for them all to be related to his IR diagnosis. Turns out I made the right call because he has chroni

Ok thank you for that insight. Just updated his CH - He has been off the Equioxx for a couple months now & yes this is the first time doing a complete blood panel for him.

Hi all! I recently had Bucky's general bloodwork and a TRH Stim test done (uploaded both to the CH). My vet informed me that the bloodwork came back normal and that he was negative for Cushing's. Afte

Okay thank you for your help. I looked through some of the files and searched "arthritis" in the messages to do further research. I will try the Mov-Ease as a supplement. I think Adequan injections lo

Hello, Thank you so much to this group, Bucky has been doing well on his recovery from his mild laminitis episode back in October/November. He has been sound regarding the laminitis issues and his IR

I plugged it in to the EMS calculator. Here are the results: G/I Ratio 9.48 Interpretation: Compensated IR RISQI 0.31 Interpretation: Compensated IR MIRG 4.8 I understand that the fasting probably ske

Hi, thank you all for all of your help. Bucky has been tapered off the bute and seems to be doing well! I am waiting on my hay analysis kit to come through the mail. I was able to get his bloodwork an

To answer some of your questions: HAY: I will see about getting an analysis done. Although, I am not sure how often the barn owner will be getting new sets of bales as she does not store a lot (there

He is also on bute (has been on it since November 5th), vet said to keep him on the bute for 30 days. I want to take him off the bute ASAP after reading more about it in the files. How can I safely ta

Hello, I am new and am looking for some guidance. This is my first time dealing with laminitis and first time with IR. I have read up on IR but there does not seem to be a lot of information on compen