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| I had a horse diagnosed with it and a nose net really helped along with valerian root on his bad days. I tried melatonin but he was goofy on it but it did stop the headshaking. I couldn't ride him at all in the spring. He would be loping along and try to strike up at his nose and rub his nose on the rail. I noticed once when I had his teeth worked on and adjusted by a vet he seemed to get a little better. I could ride him in the summer and winter with no problems. spring and fall we a challenge. |
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Location: Florida.. | fly mask might help
also his Poll might be out of whack .. with the bridle on it is painful. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | run n rate - 2016-05-16 8:28 PM
My mare has HSS caused we believe by TMJ pain. Had good results with Cyproheptadine but was afraid of the side effects, it's an RX antihistamine. Moved her over to ENC Joint Us herbs with better results and no lethargy though I still couldn't ask her to frame up when I rode. I tried Cur-Ost on her last fall and she is doing beautifully, gaining strength to hold her collection for longer and longer periods and no trouble even on windy days.
I had this mare's teeth and ears checked several times before the HSS was diagnosed by a vet and then also had her Hair analyzed, it also came back TMJ pain. We thought at first she was just having behavioral issues but when she got to the point I had to buy a draft halter for her because the pressure of her halter even set her off I decide we needed to look into it further. I also had had chiro adjustments on her to try to help, the last few times they couldn't even put their hands near her face or head, any pressure on her muzzle or poll and she lost her mind, she knocked over some panels rubbing her head on them on a windy day. We did the magnesium supplements and melatonin which helped some as far as her comfort out in pasture along with keeping her fly mask on her 24/7, windy days and very sunny ones were torture for her. The last time I tried to ride her before we got her on the Cyproheptadine she took about 4 steps and then launched herself, shaking her head, rearing, then about fell over rubbing her face on her foreleg. I bailed off and got the bridle off before I even worried about unsaddling, just tossed the rein over her neck and led her back to the trailer. She was shaking and the obvious pain and fear in her eye broke my heart, it was then I realized it was not a behavioral issue at all and this mare was in extreme pain. The vet that came out to check her understood, his wife and son both have issues with the nerves in their face, cannot go outside on sunny days without sunglasses and even then the sunglasses cause pain. My mare had hit her head in the trailer a few years back about 6 months before she started showing some issues with this problem. |
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| I used vision focus and calming with a magnesium supplement. I didn't feed him anything with alfalfa in it and kept him off new grass growth. BY doing that I could ride him as long as I used a nose net. He was perfect indoors didn't have to use the nose net because he didn't have to deal with wind or sun. I could do a weekend show indoors and had a different horse.
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Location: 31 lengths farms | On the Cur-ost Total Support mine can now be ridden even when windy...yesterday it was 14MPH with gusts to 30, loped along like an old pleasure pony.
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| Dirt Dobber - 2016-05-17 5:15 PM
I used vision focus and calming with a magnesium supplement. I didn't feed him anything with alfalfa in it and kept him off new grass growth. BY doing that I could ride him as long as I used a nose net. He was perfect indoors didn't have to use the nose net because he didn't have to deal with wind or sun. I could do a weekend show indoors and had a different horse.
What does the nose net do to help? |
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| Dirt Dobber - 2016-05-16 8:02 PM I had a horse diagnosed with it and a nose net really helped along with valerian root on his bad days. I tried melatonin but he was goofy on it but it did stop the headshaking. I couldn't ride him at all in the spring. He would be loping along and try to strike up at his nose and rub his nose on the rail. I noticed once when I had his teeth worked on and adjusted by a vet he seemed to get a little better. I could ride him in the summer and winter with no problems. spring and fall we a challenge.
Why were you not able to ride in spring and fall... was it triggered by allergies? |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | run n rate - 2016-05-17 6:15 PM On the Cur-ost Total Support mine can now be ridden even when windy...yesterday it was 14MPH with gusts to 30, loped along like an old pleasure pony.
Same! I was worried mine would be an indoor horse only. She even liked coming into her stall mid- day from the pasture and would hang out in the barn alone and be perfectly content. Being on Cur-OST Total, and adapt and calm has her being a 'normal' horse :) |
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| RunfastNTurn - 2016-05-17 7:17 PM Dirt Dobber - 2016-05-17 5:15 PM I used vision focus and calming with a magnesium supplement. I didn't feed him anything with alfalfa in it and kept him off new grass growth. BY doing that I could ride him as long as I used a nose net. He was perfect indoors didn't have to use the nose net because he didn't have to deal with wind or sun. I could do a weekend show indoors and had a different horse. What does the nose net do to help?
The nose net covers the nerve endings and one of his triggers was allergies. They say you can use panty hose instead of the German nose net. the nose net has been a miracle for me riding outdoors. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Chances are pretty good that if you find the supplement that works for your horse to help with the nerve endings that are inflamed that often cause Head Shaking you wont' need nose nets or other things that help the symptoms...I haven't had to use one on my mare since we switched to the ENC herb, biggest reason I switched to the Cur_ost again was just looking for something that would help her get back all the way and not just on days the elements weren't against us. Magnesium and Melatonin helps some along with some MSM, the Cyproheptadine helped a lot also but there are some side effects with it.
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