Am i doing the right thing? What do you think?

[cptrayes]

To have personal experience of whether diagnostic tools are able to uncover more lamenesses than previously you would have to be about 200 years old and have followed a few hundred thousand horses over those years. I am neither 200 years old nor have met that many horses but it is reasonable to assume that neither are you. What is also reasonable to assume though is that massive diagnostic technical advances ranging from x-rays to scintigraphy and MRIs have given us a vastly different insight into horse injuries simply because of the advanced capabilities of these diagnostic tools. That was my point.

Your point is well made, but that was not the point we were discussing. No-one disputes that there are wonderful techiniques now available to identify why a horse is lame. The point was that the vast majority of horses which are lame recover spontaneously with or without those techniques being used.

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Speaking as a veterinary nurse and working in many different practices, I can tell you Vets like a definiative answer rather than guess work, but they sometimes forget its not them forking out the money.......

And alot of you seem to critical of the person writing this thread not trusting her vet etc, but you seem to forget that the vet said if she didn't want the tests he would recommend 2 weeks on painkillers and wait and see! If he felt this was a bad idea he would have said so!!!!!!!!! He would have said you can try this, but I strongly recommend you don't.

I think people are far too judgemental and far too much money is thrown around too soon, the horse has only been lame a short amount of time, it's really not going to harm it to try some painkillers and rest and see if it resolves itself, I am sure if the chap gets worse in the meantime or doesn't recover the owner will splash out, you sound a very good owner, and have faith in yourself and your vet xx

 

[opinionuk]

I had a similar problem and had nerve blocks etc and nothing was found, all legs were xrayed nothing could be found, it turned out that my horse has kissing spine which had never crossed my mind until the vet xrayed her spine, it was obviously causing her a great deal of pain and she was rearing rather than bucking and is still intermittently lame on her off hind, might be worth checking.