EPM in SW Florida
Hello all,
My beautiful Arabian gelding,Gideon 10yrs, recently had a seizure like episode caught on barn camera (This has been confirmed by his vet). It was pretty violent and he ended up hitting his stall door so hard he broke the hardware off and it flung open. He flopped around on the center isle (concrete where he fell) then got up and has no other issues since. Blood has been drawn to determine the cause but the vet said she would be surprised if the results came back negative for EPM. Today I found out that the people who owned the property before us had a horse diagnosed with EPM here. I know that this is a Protozoa in the soil from opossum feces. I have about 5 acres of pasture with a pond that I keep clean and regularly drag.
I don’t have a good feeling about this but I wanted to hear other people’s words of encouragement and learn more about other people’s experience with EPM and the treatment methods they chose.
The vet came today and did a few tests with him where he failed his right side of a neurological type test and left his legs crossed in both the front and back. He is healthy and happy otherwise and had shown 0 signs of any illness or nerve issues before. no muscle loss and no other episodes that I have seen. He is resting until we know how to proceed and is staying outside at night to avoid any hard falls in the stall.
This is my heart horse so please be nice. He is really important to me and I want to make sure I am doing what is best for him.
Hello all,
My beautiful Arabian gelding,Gideon 10yrs, recently had a seizure like episode caught on barn camera (This has been confirmed by his vet). It was pretty violent and he ended up hitting his stall door so hard he broke the hardware off and it flung open. He flopped around on the center isle (concrete where he fell) then got up and has no other issues since. Blood has been drawn to determine the cause but the vet said she would be surprised if the results came back negative for EPM. Today I found out that the people who owned the property before us had a horse diagnosed with EPM here. I know that this is a Protozoa in the soil from opossum feces. I have about 5 acres of pasture with a pond that I keep clean and regularly drag.
I don’t have a good feeling about this but I wanted to hear other people’s words of encouragement and learn more about other people’s experience with EPM and the treatment methods they chose.
The vet came today and did a few tests with him where he failed his right side of a neurological type test and left his legs crossed in both the front and back. He is healthy and happy otherwise and had shown 0 signs of any illness or nerve issues before. no muscle loss and no other episodes that I have seen. He is resting until we know how to proceed and is staying outside at night to avoid any hard falls in the stall.
This is my heart horse so please be nice. He is really important to me and I want to make sure I am doing what is best for him.