Janice, when we dealt with Elska's eye she needed some sort of special medication 4 times a day (gel in her eye) and another type of gel medication that took the pain away. Your vet may have wanted Nasi sedated because they can become difficult to treat. You have to become very adept at swiping the gel into their eye. Elska was on to me most of the time, but she finally resigned herself to it because it must have felt better.
We had to keep her in a dark barn for a month though. It was worth it though, she just has a tiny scar and her sight is just fine. We never had to give her any injections other than initially when the vets treated her. Wanda On 02/04/07, Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/2/07, Cherie Mascis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But every time I gave Nasi his banamine he turned into a beliggerent > > > drunk, tearing out fences, just walking right thru them, bucking and > > > running around like a nut. > > > > That's weird! Banamine is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicine, like > > aspirin and Bute. It relieves pain and swelling. I've never heard of it > > making a horse hyper, but if Nasi had pain and got Banamine, he might have > > had enough pain relief to feel great and act like a brat! how much did he > > get? You're supposed to give a gram per 100 lbs. > > > > Cherie > > > > the vet gave me a syringe marked into thirds. Told me to give one > third morning, one third evening and one third the next day. he had > been sedated heavily the night before. he cut his eye! The vet had > to snip a loose flap and sedated him. I noticed after he was gelded > he was a huge brat too! i wonder if it makes him irritable, the drug > wearing off. or if he is just MADDERN FIRE about being taken to the > vet and experiencing something scarey. I did notice tho that he would > get very sweaty with each dose of banamine and with the sedative also. > Each time I gave him the banamine I would go out and check and wet > him down so he would feel cool. I have a picture to upload when I get > my camera! It is one hour after banamine and he is leaping and > bucking thru the yard like a dang maniac! Right before tearing out > the fence. and he is absolute low man on the herd totem pole here and > what does he do? Lumbers right thru the electric wire into the > paddock of the large horses and then WHO does he decide well, I'll > just run HIM off his feed bucket...?? herd LEADER jaspar. SO he gets > his tail whooped royally and has to escape by trying to jump the fence > and getting all hung up in it.... I am just so glad his eye is ok, > and we found the culprit we think. We also found a long razor thin > cut on curlys neck and walked the whole pasture and all the paddocks > and we found a very very sharp point on a weld in the hay ring so my > husband filed it. The vet said it was miraculous the eye itself was > not compromised! yay. > Janice > > -- > yipie tie yie yo > > > "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, > contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and > unrealistic." > > "All truth passes through three stages. > First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. > Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer > > > [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: > http://IceHorses.net/video.html > [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com > [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com > [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo > [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses > [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
