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| I just had my mare injected with osphos, almost a week ago. She never had signs of colic, but has barely eaten and has disinterest in all her normal feed. The vet came out and looked at her a couple days after the injection, she has no injection site problems and no sore neck. He thought she should return to normal habits in a few days but is showing mild improvement in her appetite. Anyone had a similar experience? |
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| If you read the side effects that can be one.
I would get the vet to do a blood calcium level |
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| It was almost two weeks before my gelding was back to his old self after the OsPhos injection. |
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Location: Where the blacktop ends | If you give Banamine at the time of the your Osphos injection, that will take care of the problem from the start. (so my vet told me) I we did not have any problems. |
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| Go to Walmart and get some aloe Vera juice. Give her 30cc’s 30 minutes before she eats. Morning and night. I would then get some Cool Gut from Dac. Give her 30 days worth. It will take care of fore and hind gut ulcers. It sounds like she might have ulcers. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Happymom - 2017-10-26 8:29 AM If you give Banamine at the time of the your Osphos injection, that will take care of the problem from the start. (so my vet told me) I we did not have any problems.
I have heard this is important to do as well. Hope your horse gets back to feeling better. |
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Location: North Dakota | Something odd..Osphos was recently suggested to me for my horse with hock arthritis. I asked about the chance of colic or not feeling well after it because I had heard about it and my vet and he told me not to give banamine if she starts acting colicky after the injection. He said it like 3 times to me. I never did get the osphos for her, so no actual experience with the injection. |
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| http://www.doctorramey.com/ready-tildren-osphos/ |
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Location: Arizona | Hmm, my mare had no issues at all. Could it be something else? |
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Location: the end of the rainbow | my vet made it very clear that os-phos could cause ulcers/ ulcer symptoms. If it were my horse I would see if you can get some Omeprazole or other stomach relief meds in her & make her belly feel better. |
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Location: never in the right place | got the Osphos shot for my horse and didn't have any issues |
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| MidWest1452 - 2017-10-26 3:09 PM Something odd..Osphos was recently suggested to me for my horse with hock arthritis. I asked about the chance of colic or not feeling well after it because I had heard about it and my vet and he told me not to give banamine if she starts acting colicky after the injection. He said it like 3 times to me. I never did get the osphos for her, so no actual experience with the injection. I am not sure why vets are saying to give nsaids with osphos. I was told by my vets not to. also when I gave mine to watch for colic symptoms because the injection, for a very short time, interrupts the gut motility but then allows it to go back to working order. Also if you give nsaids with it you could risk kidney damage. The two main concerns with osphos is symptoms of colic, which isn't really colic and kidney failure which is increased if mixed with nsaid. Osphos is excreted through the kidneys just like nsaids so a horse that already has renal problems could be at a higher risk for failure.
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| My vet had me give electrolytes and no working for 3 days before the shot to make sure he was hydrated. He never had a reaction but vet said to watch him for 3-4 hours and that was it. |
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| I was warned that the osphos injections may cause my mare to feel "icky" and display signs of colic. She's had two osphos treatments over the last 12 months and seemed to feel ok. I made sure To schedule them at a time I could be home to keep an eye on her. I also stayed off of her for two days. |
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Location: Muskogee, OK | Firstly, I absolutely recommend AGAINST giving Banamine or Bute at the time of injection. It clearly says on the label to not administer any nephrotoxic (kidney toxic) drugs at that same time as the Osphos as doing so could be very hard on the kidneys.
I would be wanting to run some bloodwork to assess organ function values especially now that you are a week or so out. |
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| I have used osphos on two different horses and my vet recommends hand walking them for 15 minutes after administering the drug. They said this is important as some do act strange right after. The hand walking seems to help this. So that's what we do. Can't remember exactly why they said to do it but they stressed that. |
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| After reading all this I learned one thing....I will never give a horse Osphos! |
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| Meep.Meep - 2017-10-29 9:50 AM
After reading all this I learned one thing....I will never give a horse Osphos!
I have done tildren, but my horses are under direct veterinary care for a few days.
Everything has side effects, you just need to be prepared to manage the side effects, hence the vet. |
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| cheryl makofka - 2017-10-29 10:32 AM
Meep.Meep - 2017-10-29 9:50 AM
After reading all this I learned one thing....I will never give a horse Osphos!
I have done tildren, but my horses are under direct veterinary care for a few days.
Everything has side effects, you just need to be prepared to manage the side effects, hence the vet.
To me the risk wouldn't be worth the "reward". |
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| Meep.Meep - 2017-10-29 10:37 AM
cheryl makofka - 2017-10-29 10:32 AM
Meep.Meep - 2017-10-29 9:50 AM
After reading all this I learned one thing....I will never give a horse Osphos!
I have done tildren, but my horses are under direct veterinary care for a few days.
Everything has side effects, you just need to be prepared to manage the side effects, hence the vet.
To me the risk wouldn't be worth the "reward".
One or two cases surfacing of side effects is not a concern. I know several horses that have had a couple injections of osphos and never had any issues. I personally think osphos is a low risk medication for side effects with the intital injection compared to the risks of joint injections... I feel joint injections are a much higher risk. |
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