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| I did a complete Adequan series ( 7 shots) on my 3 year old a preventative. My vet said thats all he needs and she is no longer recommending the monthly dose, as there is no proof it provides any additional benefit. She recommended a 7 shot full series once a year. How many of you do the monthly? or do you just load once a year? Thanks! |
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Location: louisiana | FLITASTIC - 2014-11-13 10:26 AM
I did a complete Adequan series ( 7 shots) on my 3 year old a preventative. My vet said thats all he needs and she is no longer recommending the monthly dose, as there is no proof it provides any additional benefit. She recommended a 7 shot full series once a year. How many of you do the monthly? or do you just load once a year? Thanks!
I do the monthly just as a preventative |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | I do the 7 doses twice a year only. Or if I was going to a long weekend show with 3 runs I might would give one and a shot of legend. |
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Location: Central Texas | I have normally done the 7 shot series twice a year and as someone stated, if it is a long weekend of running, I will give a shot on Thursday. Other than that, most of the vets I have spoken with feel the once a month doesn't really do anything as a maintenance because it doesn't stay in their system. IDK |
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| Thanks everyone, I was leaning in that direction myself. He isin't close to even competing yet so the 7 shot series should be OK. Maybe do another 7 series shot next summer. |
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| I'm glad I came across this thread as I am getting ready to start it on my mare. Definitely happy to save that 50$+ a month if its not proven to do anything.
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Location: TN | I havent used Adequan in 2 years. I switched to Pentosan. |
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Location: North Dakota | I'm really interested to hear more.
I just started my horse on Adequan this year. My vet and I decided just to keep him on it year-round because it would be more expensive to do the loading dose each year (along with maintenance).
I totally thought that it was the "norm" to do Adequan once a month for maintenance?
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Location: Texas | Technically speaking, the label dosage of this drug is to do the series of injections. IM every 4 days for 28 days, or IA once a week for 5 weeks. I am not sure who came up with the monthly maintenance dose. I'm reading my pharmacology book now about it.
The book says that IA injections of it are beneficial but IM injections may not give a high enough effective dose to be effective. But Wednesday in a bone lab the clinician said how they don't like to give adequan IA due to the increased risk of joint infection with it. It lowers the CFUs required of the bacteria to establish an infection.
I *DO* know my vet is skeptical about most injectable joint products like legend and the sort but he does use adequan, so I know he's got the most faith in that product of them.
To be honest, most of the injectable products like pentosan, legend, adequan, polyglycan, etc, are anecdotal or empirical. There really are not a million studies out there that support that they work, or work as much as we think. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | Adequan i.m. reaches peak levels in joints two hours after intramuscular injection. It is detected in cartliage and subchondral bone up to four days after a single intramuscular injection. Hyaluronic acid in the synovial fluid nearly doubles within 48 hours after a single injection. Adequan has been detected in joints up to four days. Is it good for maintenace? Is there a clinical problem? Learn more get your free copy "Balanced Joints-Sound Horse" video by calling 1-800-974-9247 or the website www.adequan.com |
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| I thought the loading dose was 7 and then once a month....my vet never said to do it twice a year. Why would you do that and not once a month? 7 + 7 = 14 doses.....loading dose is 7 then 1x a month....I'm scratching my head about how that's better to do two loading doses a year? Plus you're injecting on top I'm assuming? |
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