Removing the salt block absolutely resolved this. I haven't had ACTH retested, so I can't be sure we're OK, but he is no longer drinking and peeing excessively. Thanks, Dr. K. -- Cindy, Oden, and Eeyo

I may have mentioned this in an earlier message. My mare was diagnosed with PPID in July of 2020. Two weeks later she suffered a uveitis flare that still has not healed. The vets have tried various an

Hi- our repeat insulin value came back at 200 after starting metformin. I have convinced my vet to try Invokana. Given that the metformin doesn’t appear to be working, I am planning on discontinuing t

Dr. Kellon and ECIR Group, My mare is IR and now probably Cushings (ACTH was 139 and insulin was 58.42 for blood drawn 7-20-20). The highest ACTH number she had before this was 36, so quite a jump. At

We are still struggling with Dame. I finally have her up to 1mg prascend and 10ml APF PRO. Just been on that for 10 days. The past few days she has shown signs of the vail and off her feed again and d

Just wondering if anyone knows if something like salt or similar, could be added to the hay soaking water to soften it so that a greater amount of sugar could potentially be soaked out of the hay made

Thanks for posting the link on hay soaking, Linda, (Great article on soaking hay... http://equine.ca.uky.edu/news-story/soak-or-not-soak-hay). As this is your first post, I am including our ECIR welco

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice on whether I should test my 9yo Rocky Mountain/Paso Fino gelding for PPID on November 9th. The vet is coming out to see his barn mate horse, and I could split

I was listening to a posdcast featuring the daughter of RIva's Remedies - Elisha Edwards. Elisha is a EMS/IR nutritionist per her website. She said in the podcast that she is using organic iron to dis

hi y'all, Vet was out this morning to draw blood for Babe's first recheck- he's been on a half tab of Prascend for several weeks now. I told her about the AFP and I think she took a picture of the bot

I just got blood test results back! First ones. The ECIR calculator says not IR, poor insulin responder. What does that mean? Guelph University Animal Health Lab glucose 4.4 mmol/L insulin 42 pmol/L S

Heartfelt thanks to Dr. Kellon, the volunteers, and the community here. I find I am no longer alone in my research, my questions, my desire to do the best I can for my horses amidst a universe of conf

"I would stop the Chastetree berry because there is always the potential for it to decrease pergolide effects." Dr. Kellon, is this only a possibility or is it inevitable? I ask because I recently add

I asked Dr. Barbara Schanbacher from Cornell about sample type interference in assays and her reply is below: "The assay used for this paper was the Immulite 1000 chemiluminescent insulin assay. This

Does anyone know if acorns have ever been tested? Just curious as keeping my horses away from acorns 100% is near impossible and I'm guessing they could be high in starch. -- Angie October 2020, Mendo

my haorse was very lame some rotation and diagnosed with cushings and insulin was very very high started diet and half them full pill she will not eat ....dropped to half ....she also was getting bett

Hi there, has anyone experienced an increase in coat growth when starting prascend? This year Vinnie has put on quite a bit more coat than he normally does and I wondered if this could have anything t

Hello, Will saw vet for second time on Oct 4 and vet says laminitic episode has passed. Took x-rays, these are posted in her album. We see a slight rotation. Vet took blood tests; results are in the O

This study found that insulin testing of samples taken into an EDTA plasma tube (purple top) showed significantly lower levels than serum (red top) or heparin (green top) samples. Best stability when

I updated my case history to include that I started giving Micah Equioxx daily at the end of August (surgery for torn Manica Flexoria in 2018; I can only ride her for 30 minutes under saddle at a walk