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aspen1991

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My horse tyed up just over 2 weeks ago, have followed all vets advise, have changed the diet, have clipped and kept warm and rugged all the time, ridden in a fleece sheet ect. Told to box rest him for 1 day, then turn out with no work for 3 days, then slowly bring back into work and introduce canter gradually.

When my horse tyed up it was on the right rein canter, now after 2 weeks of rest and slowly bringing back into work and introducing canter he still does not feel 100% on the right rein canter.. walk and trot on both reins feels very good! Canter on the left rein feels wonderful, on the lunge on both reins walk, trot and canter he is fine. It is just the canter right he feels as though he is cantering in front but not behind, has anyone else ever experienced this after tying up?

Could he still be feeling a little unsure or stiff through his back end/back from the azoturia? I have him booked in with my Mctimoney therapist on Monday to see if she can find any stiffness or pain.

I just find it strange that it is on the same rein as the rein that he tyed up on and has only been this way since he tyed up.

So does anyone have any experience of this? Do they sometimes take a good while to feel normal again?

Thanks :) x
 
hes kwpn, before this he was just being fed high fibre cubes and hi fi lite, hes now being fed on the advice of my vet - Saracen Re-Vive, Hifi Lite, electrolytes, his usual Nettex calmer, equine America vits and mins, has a salt lick in his stable and adlib hay.
 
How old is he? Do you find he is a bit slow or stuffy/stiff when you first get on him? Does he struggle in canter to choose the correct leg / go disunited at all? Does he improve with a really good warm up?

Did you do blood work when he tied up and have you done any subsequently?
 
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My horse tyed up just over 2 weeks ago, have followed all vets advise, have changed the diet, have clipped and kept warm and rugged all the time, ridden in a fleece sheet ect. Told to box rest him for 1 day, then turn out with no work for 3 days, then slowly bring back into work and introduce canter gradually.

When my horse tyed up it was on the right rein canter, now after 2 weeks of rest and slowly bringing back into work and introducing canter he still does not feel 100% on the right rein canter.. walk and trot on both reins feels very good! Canter on the left rein feels wonderful, on the lunge on both reins walk, trot and canter he is fine. It is just the canter right he feels as though he is cantering in front but not behind, has anyone else ever experienced this after tying up?

Could he still be feeling a little unsure or stiff through his back end/back from the azoturia? I have him booked in with my Mctimoney therapist on Monday to see if she can find any stiffness or pain.

I just find it strange that it is on the same rein as the rein that he tyed up on and has only been this way since he tyed up.

So does anyone have any experience of this? Do they sometimes take a good while to feel normal again?

Thanks :) x
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My mare had Myopathy which is a lesser form of this - she had to have muscle relaxants and time off work for 3 months.


Hers was to do with too much grain and not enough work
 
he is 9 and very excitable, think its to do with his over exuberance! nope the only time he feels off is on right rein canter, everything else he seems perfectly fine and is actually moving more free and going better than he was before his attack! its only right rein canter, we do a good warm up of stretchy walk and trot for a good 25 mins and then at the moment only doing very short canters on both reins, maybe a full lap and a 20m circle.. he doesn't do it on the lunge. I asked about bloods but my vet seemed to think we could manage it with diet and lifestyle and they are not necessary at the moment. I have my physio booked in for Monday and will just do light hacking over the weekend!

My vet didn't say he needed any prolonged time off, and due to the way he is I doubt it would help him, the first time he got it he was on box rest and I bought him out to hand walk him and he went nuts!
 
aspen1991 said:
My horse tyed up just over 2 weeks ago
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can you show me pics your horse ?
 
So he's tied up more than once? If I were you I would read up on PSSM (EPSM) and RER. Your diet is not perfect, if he has one of these. And the lasting problems on the right rein would make me suspicious he is still symptomatic.

I think your vet is wrong to say there was no need to take bloods - my mare is type 1 PSSM and she has tied up once before diagnosis. When she tied up, she was slightly grumpy, and not tracking up as well as usual. That was it. When we did the bloods they showed her levels to be off the scale for CK and AST (the scale goes up to 100,000, normal is in the low hundreds). She could have died, yet she barely looked ill. The external symptoms of a tie up do not correspond with what's going on internally.

The fact he has improved would tell me he's responding to your diet improvement but if you had a really good diet, he could be so much better.

Unfortunately vets don't know as much about these myopathies as we need them to. I've had some of the worst diet advice from vets and dieticians.

For instance your electrolyte probably contains sugars which is a no no.

You want to feel him a low NSC (non structural carb) diet which means low sugar and starch. He also may need some specific supplementation but accurate diagnosis is important.

Tail hair can be pulled to diagnose PSSM type 1. Type 2 and other myopathies are diagnosed by biopsy - quite invasive so personally I would try the diet first and see how he responds.

And a PS - some of the most talented horses can have PSSM. My mare is a complete legend despite it. It is really worth looking into further so the horse can perform as best as it can tho.
 
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