Hi my name is Anna. I have recently joined this discussion group on Cushings and am not totally familiar with it as yet! I got your last e-mail yesterday and intoductions from new members were reque

I thought you all might be interested in this information from a quite knowledgeable sorce... I've left the original poster's name & website address link at the bottom, and am copying here with her

Hi All, the vet was out tonight to check intermittent lameness with Star my cushings mare. Good news is that the lameness is not cushings related. Bad news is it is probably shoeing related but could

Hi, I have just joined the list. I have a 26 year old Arabian gelding with cushings. We have been together 22 years and have been managing the disease since late 1996. I have experimented with the per

Again, from another bb, someone mentioned a pony that resides at a zoo and is being treated for Cushings. They said the odd thing is that his Thyroid is enlarged, and that he's had symptoms virtual

Hi, I'm new to the list too. Located in Western PA, I have a small Exmoor-type pony gelding, 10.2 hh who is somewhere in his mid-20's. For the last few years he has not been shedding out as nicel

Kim: You are absolutely correct to research the subject of sedating your old friend (as you should with anything that is to be done to him). I recently had my old guy worked on by the dentist (who is

Hi my name is Anna, and I am introducing myself to you all!!!! I have a 14HH Irish Riding Pony cross Connemara gelding called Oscar. He is grey and was diagnosed with Cushings at Xmas. He is our ba

Hi All I'm on so many lists it's hard to keep current , but here are some excerpts from other list posts of mine with some things you might want to check out. Been battling laminitis for 7 months now

Wow Sue ...40 years old !!! That's great! Jazz is only 16. I agree - finding Gretchen's site was the turning point for me also- Nora ----------

Hi. My name is Barbara and I live in Va. I have a 20 year old Andalusian mare, Amiga, whom we believe has Cushing's. I've only had her since September but I do have a sketchy history. When she was 10

Hi again. Kay, thanks so much for the donkey-advice. I didn't realize Daisey Mae is a miniature, but that's great! I have heard that they are very easy keepers and I will do my best. My Icelandic geld

Hello all ...don't want to sound like a broken record here but PLEASE go to this site before you put another set of "therapeutic shoes" on your founder horse ,and lock him up in his stall to "force hi

"Cushing's-like Syndrome"...some feel this should be the proper name...many suspect it's not really a tumor but a malfunction due to environmental causes , mineral imbalances ,magnesium/calcium imbala

Hi all, I somehow missed the addy to Gretchen's site, can one of you send it along? Thanks! Robin Desert Springs Sport Horses http://www.Sportshorses.homestead.com (best viewed in explorer 4.x or n

http://members.screenz.com/gretchenfathauer/ Subject: Re:"Therapeutic Shoes"...sorry the site address didn't come through with my last post. this site before you put another set of "therapeutic shoe

SNIP> many suspect it's not really a tumor <SNIP I'd be curious to know what basis there is to this statement... Cushings has been repeatedly shown to be a tumor on autopsy post death... and there

My horse has been on the liquid Cypro for 4 months now. In the beginning it was working well, however, in the last three weeks he has started to show some "changes" that make me wonder if he is not re

Robin wrote: ------------- This used be correct in humans , BUT: only 20 years ago most actual prostate CANCER used to be found only on autopsy as it used to be such a SLOW growing malignancy that a

Barbara: Thanks for joining us, the more input/infor/support we can exchange the better. Here's my responses to your questions: <1. Most of you seem to use pergolide. Is it because the cypro stopped