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sent the photos to the vet and he thinks the scan is the best way forward looking in lymph/parotid and possibility of melanomas...does anyone have any experience of melanomas in this area (internally) and any experience of melanomas in this age animal at all...hoping it is something much less...

Ok, spoken to vet. He has said if the lump hasnt gotten any smaller by end of the weekend I should pick up some anti b's. He is then out on Thursday to scope my other horse (separate issue) and if she is still the same we will put the Ultrasound machine on her to look for an abcess/inflammation...

Interesting...I did initially think it was a bite but as it has gone down to a set shape and stopped changing I thought probably not, but could well be a haematoma! My boy will be in big trouble if he has caused it!!

thank you =) but definitely not grass lumps, my other 2 get them and they look like hamsters, very greedy and they come down when taken off the grass or fed from a haynet, but this is only on 1 side, it doesnt pit, it isnt fluidy, its pretty solid and a defined egg shape rather than general...

will definitely discuss this with the vet as she is currently on no meds, and although not getting worse she isnt improving, we thought if it were an abcess it would have come out by now, one way or another...but if it has sealed itself I think the IM antib's are the way to go. Did you have...

Could be, it came up in a similar time frame, she was fine in the morning and then afternoon check she had the lump, it has gone down since initially coming up but only to a point and hasn't changed since (since Thursday). Did yours have a temp of any sort or any sign of illness? There was a...

Photos should be found here: http://s430.photobucket.com/user/surelynot1/library/mystery%20lump 16 month old filly has had an egg shaped and sized lump on 1 side of her throat, lymph node area, for just over a week. It came up Saturday night (3rd) got bigger in the morning, and has since...