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Location: Pacific Northwest | I’m almost going to start running my mare again and at the end of last season I got Equioxx (57mg tablets) but haven’t used them yet. She doesn’t have any lameness problems but she’s 18, I figure it wouldn’t hurt. My vet said I could give it the day before and day of a race.
My question is, how far out do you give it? Like if I’m running in an evening race do I give it in the morning or do I give it a few hours out? I’m not sure when it “peaks”. |
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Location: Oklahoma | It depends for me. I give it when I give my lazix and pre-race paste so 2ish hours out.
If I have a long weekend ahead (3-4-5 runs) I will give the day before so he has it in his system, then I give every night we are gone. 
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Location: Illinois | Both my vets say it takes up to 4 days of use for Previcox to reach its full effect on the body, but I stopped using it because it was just adding fuel to my ulcer fire when mine had ulcers. I'd honestly just put her on a good daily supplement to help with any discomfort before giving her pain meds if she's not showing any kinds of pain. I only used it for long weekends stalled on concrete. I try not to give mine pain meds unless its necessary |
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| I also use it as preventative with 100% support from my vet. Vet says the hardest thing to get out of a horse's joints is inflammation. The best approach is to hopefully avoid the inflammation from getting there in the first place. Plus you have the stress of hauling, stalling, etc. She has me give a DOUBLE DOSE 2 days out from a run 12 hours apart. Then one dose daily including a day AFTER a race. So if a race is saturday, they get one dose thursday morning, one thursday evening, then ever morning including the day after a race. Hope that makes sense. |
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| Previcox is a cox inhibitor that takes much longer to work than bute.
It's most effective when you let it build up in the system for a few days,unlike bute that can alleviate pain effectively without build up.
Your basically wasting money trying to use previcox same day bc it's only half as effective |
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| runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-15 9:42 AM
Previcox is a cox inhibitor that takes much longer to work than bute.
It's most effective when you let it build up in the system for a few days,unlike bute that can alleviate pain effectively without build up.
Your basically wasting money trying to use previcox same day bc it's only half as effective
Correct, and my vet says thats why you give the double dose on day one, you can use 1 dose daily but it takes few more days to become effective. She says a double dose on day 1 keeps you from having to use it as long, which is always good thing. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Thank you for the info. To add, she had the loading dose of Adequan in January and she gets Tight Joints Plus as a daily.
She never seems to be sore after a race but she’s kind of stoic. |
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Location: Louisiana | FLITASTIC - 2018-03-15 11:41 AM
I also use it as preventative with 100% support from my vet. Vet says the hardest thing to get out of a horse's joints is inflammation. The best approach is to hopefully avoid the inflammation from getting there in the first place. Plus you have the stress of hauling, stalling, etc. She has me give a DOUBLE DOSE 2 days out from a run 12 hours apart. Then one dose daily including a day AFTER a race. So if a race is saturday, they get one dose thursday morning, one thursday evening, then ever morning including the day after a race. Hope that makes sense.
This is exactly what I do with mine.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I start giving 3 or 4 days out. |
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Location: NC | See i was told the same thing the OP was told which is give it the day before, day of and day after by my vet. Its for my 21/22 yr old gelding. He also gets a set of adequan every spring and cetyl m daily. I was wondering about that as well |
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| runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-15 9:42 AM Previcox is a cox inhibitor that takes much longer to work than bute. It's most effective when you let it build up in the system for a few days,unlike bute that can alleviate pain effectively without build up. Your basically wasting money trying to use previcox same day bc it's only half as effective
All NSAIDs are a cox inhibitors. The difference is bute and banamine are cox 1, 2 and 3 inhibitors, whereas previcox is only a selective cox 2.
And as others have mentioned, if that's the NSAID I choose to use on a horse, I start it a couple days early.
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| barrelracinbroke - 2018-03-16 9:05 PM
runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-15 9:42 AM Previcox is a cox inhibitor that takes much longer to work than bute. It's most effective when you let it build up in the system for a few days,unlike bute that can alleviate pain effectively without build up. Your basically wasting money trying to use previcox same day bc it's only half as effective
All NSAIDs are a cox inhibitors. The difference is bute and banamine are cox 1, 2 and 3 inhibitors, whereas previcox is only a selective cox 2.
And as others have mentioned, if that's the NSAID I choose to use on a horse, I start it a couple days early.
Re-read my sentence....i didn't say bute wasn't one? 
Bute and banamine's nonselective nature is exactly why they work so quickly the fact that fibrocoxib is selective makes it require more build up time to be effective. |
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Location: North Dakota | Previcox and equioxx (which are the same thing) are not instant like bute. You’d be wasting your money giving it the day of.
I was always told to do a loading dose on the first day (three 57 mg tabs) followed by one 57 mg tab once a day, given at close to the same time each day to maintain the level in the horse’s system.
With my own horse, I could tell it taking effect after about a week. Thus, I would give it a week out, minimum, if I were helping a horse for a particular event. |
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| runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-19 9:59 AM barrelracinbroke - 2018-03-16 9:05 PM runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-15 9:42 AM Previcox is a cox inhibitor that takes much longer to work than bute. It's most effective when you let it build up in the system for a few days,unlike bute that can alleviate pain effectively without build up. Your basically wasting money trying to use previcox same day bc it's only half as effective All NSAIDs are a cox inhibitors. The difference is bute and banamine are cox 1, 2 and 3 inhibitors, whereas previcox is only a selective cox 2.
And as others have mentioned, if that's the NSAID I choose to use on a horse, I start it a couple days early.
Re-read my sentence....i didn't say bute wasn't one? Bute and banamine's nonselective nature is exactly why they work so quickly the fact that fibrocoxib is selective makes it require more build up time to be effective.
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Giving Previcox/Equioxx before a race