Last year my little gelding Odie became very lame and had to be put on boxrest, got very stressed and developed a sarcoid near his wither.
It started off quite small, but it grew very fast, and with in a month he had a large cauliflower type grow, about the size of a snooker ball.
It seemed to change quite a bit in appearance, sometimes proliferating, growing, sometimes it was crumbly and bits would scab and fall off, sometimes it would bleed and ooze, or have a red bobbly bit on it. It always remained relatively large though and he developed a few more. Some small scaly patches on his sheath and chest, and a bald bit near his eye, which you could have mistaken for just a bald patch, except that he's had it for months now and it had a 'pimple', like a very small wart on it.
He had quite a few issues when it first cropped up, so I didn't intend to treat it, simply because, his future wasn't looking very certain at the time.
So he had it since late last year, and thankfully, his issues for the moment seem to be mostly resolved and all that was left was the sarcoid.
I have firsthand experience of quite a few of the treatments availible, and some I just don't agree with, some are too costly, and virtually all of them have a reoccurance rate that I'm not comfortable with!!
LucyAd (member? old member?) recommended Sarc-off to me, which she had used successfully on her horse with no reoccurance, it was relatively cheap, non invasive, and I read a lot of + experiences of people using it.
I got in touch with the suppliers and they gave me a contact for it here (no mention of it ever being used here, vets I know and work with, never heard of it, no experience of it) and they actually sent it to me for free!! Protective P&P included!
So I was enthused, I would be in a good position to promote its use etc, get the word out presumably, and they obviously had faith in its use.
I applied it about a forthnight ago, I was supposed to apply it for 4 days, but managed to forget on the 4th day. So he got 3 days!
I did find it difficult to apply, as if you imagine a snooker ball (the sarcoid) on a flat surface (his healthy skin) ... its quite thick, so I could only really cover the top and sides.
I have misplaced my photographs of what it looked like when I did it (will add later) but a little worse then this...
(taken in the winter)
Its supposed to take a few weeks to take effect, but after just a forthnight...
You can see the patch of new hair growth around what is left of it.
Its quite frankly, amazing.
LucyAd told me, that she put her cream on the worst lesion, and left the smaller ones alone - which I would agree with. The one near his eye for example, is barely noticeable, and not worth aggravating in this first instance.
She said her horses small ones resolved when the big one fell off.
Even more amazingly - the one near his eye... without applying any cream to it, now appears to be just a healthy bald spot. The 'pimple' is gone, and its looks and feels like normal healthy skin (the hair there would be quite fine, so it remains to be seen whether it will come back or not)
And in other Odie news... he stood perfectly for the farrier, for the first time in 2 years (you have no idea what a massive relief this is!!)
It started off quite small, but it grew very fast, and with in a month he had a large cauliflower type grow, about the size of a snooker ball.
It seemed to change quite a bit in appearance, sometimes proliferating, growing, sometimes it was crumbly and bits would scab and fall off, sometimes it would bleed and ooze, or have a red bobbly bit on it. It always remained relatively large though and he developed a few more. Some small scaly patches on his sheath and chest, and a bald bit near his eye, which you could have mistaken for just a bald patch, except that he's had it for months now and it had a 'pimple', like a very small wart on it.
He had quite a few issues when it first cropped up, so I didn't intend to treat it, simply because, his future wasn't looking very certain at the time.
So he had it since late last year, and thankfully, his issues for the moment seem to be mostly resolved and all that was left was the sarcoid.
I have firsthand experience of quite a few of the treatments availible, and some I just don't agree with, some are too costly, and virtually all of them have a reoccurance rate that I'm not comfortable with!!
LucyAd (member? old member?) recommended Sarc-off to me, which she had used successfully on her horse with no reoccurance, it was relatively cheap, non invasive, and I read a lot of + experiences of people using it.
I got in touch with the suppliers and they gave me a contact for it here (no mention of it ever being used here, vets I know and work with, never heard of it, no experience of it) and they actually sent it to me for free!! Protective P&P included!
So I was enthused, I would be in a good position to promote its use etc, get the word out presumably, and they obviously had faith in its use.
I applied it about a forthnight ago, I was supposed to apply it for 4 days, but managed to forget on the 4th day. So he got 3 days!
I did find it difficult to apply, as if you imagine a snooker ball (the sarcoid) on a flat surface (his healthy skin) ... its quite thick, so I could only really cover the top and sides.
I have misplaced my photographs of what it looked like when I did it (will add later) but a little worse then this...
(taken in the winter)
Its supposed to take a few weeks to take effect, but after just a forthnight...
You can see the patch of new hair growth around what is left of it.
Its quite frankly, amazing.
LucyAd told me, that she put her cream on the worst lesion, and left the smaller ones alone - which I would agree with. The one near his eye for example, is barely noticeable, and not worth aggravating in this first instance.
She said her horses small ones resolved when the big one fell off.
Even more amazingly - the one near his eye... without applying any cream to it, now appears to be just a healthy bald spot. The 'pimple' is gone, and its looks and feels like normal healthy skin (the hair there would be quite fine, so it remains to be seen whether it will come back or not)
And in other Odie news... he stood perfectly for the farrier, for the first time in 2 years (you have no idea what a massive relief this is!!)
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