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When my wifes horse came down with West Nile, after we cured the WN we 
had an ulcer from the treatment. He probably had a low grad residual 
ulcer from the his race track days to start with.

The dose of cimetidine for him (about 1000 pounds) was 8 grams every 8 
hours for 10 days - tappering off the last few days. We got the 200 mg 
(human size) at Walmart. The vet said that was about the cheapest way to 
buy it. That worked out to 120 tablets a day ( 40 every 8 hours). You 
also need to be pretty religious about sticking to the 8 hour schedule. 
He was very good about eatting the tablets in feed so he got his feed 
broken into thirds and got a midnight feeding. If I remember right it 
cost about between 12 and 15 bucks a day since I bought Walmart out and 
had to get some at Walgreen which was a little more expensive. Compare 
that to Gastrogard which I think is about 60 bucks a day.

It seem to clear it up on him.

Truman

Michael Maul wrote:

> My understanding is that it's pretty expensive to treat ulcers in 
> horses using Gastrogard - something like $1000/month.  I have some 
> friends going the Gastrogard route now.
>
> I've heard of other people who have used the generic form of 
> Tagamet(CIMETIDINE) for their horses at a much lower cost. An example 
> of Canadian costs below with no prescription required is:
>
> TAGAMET, Generic, 300mg, 180 Tablets, $23.40. TAGAMET, Generic, 400mg,
> 180 Tablets, $36.04. TAGAMET, Generic, 600mg, 180 Tablets, $40.89.
>
> Has anyone on the list used the generic Tagamet successfully for the 
> treatment of ulcers in an equine?
>
> Mike
>
>
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