Blood results back

Suggests inflammatory condition antibiotics and will revisit on Tuesday. I am lacking confidence in what they are saying.
 
Why? Aren't they horse vets? I had a virus once and the nerve endings in the skin on my back were supersensitive with it.
 
fatpiggy said:
Why? Aren't they horse vets? I had a virus once and the nerve endings in the skin on my back were supersensitive with it.
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I always get the same when I catch a cold - my skin is always super sensitive, especially if the air temperature is cold. Whenever I go to the toilet and obviously you have to remove some clothes, my skin goes really itchy, twitchy and sore, even hurts to touch. Really odd.

SS, why don't you trust your vet? Unfortunately v few things can be cured immediately and I suspect you will have to try the ABs and wait to see what happens.
 
What is your gut saying Snow steps? ABs would possibly be prescribed by most vets as a first step if infection was suspected.
 
Why would I not want to investigate further and be as informed as possible popsdosh. This horse is my world. I want to do the best I can.
 
Snow steps said:
Why would I not want to investigate further and be as informed as possible popsdosh. This horse is my world. I want to do the best I can.
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I just dont see the logic behind what you are doing ie paying a vet to come out do blood test and then feeling they are not giving you the right answer. From what you say they are taking the logical steps ,ok they may be wrong they may be right but they are the professionals who you are paying to treat your horse. To be blunt if you are not happy get a second opinion ,however it will be very awkward to obtain that from within the practice and it is highly likely that your usual vet is already aware of things and may have been involved with the diagnosis. Sometimes these things end up exploring the most likely causes first and then discarding them if proven not to be the problem.However nobody on here has seen the horse let alone the blood results! so how can they diagnose whats wrong with your horse .There are many causes for the raised levels in the blood however dont go looking for extreme problems that are most likely not there and worrying more! I am sorry but it is what I think is the worst of this forum when posters try to second guess the professionals even though they have never seen the animal and quite often have only half the story.
I know you are worried about your horse but you wont find the answer here!
 
popsdosh said:
I just dont see the logic behind what you are doing ie paying a vet to come out do blood test and then feeling they are not giving you the right answer. From what you say they are taking the logical steps ,ok they may be wrong they may be right but they are the professionals who you are paying to treat your horse. To be blunt if you are not happy get a second opinion ,however it will be very awkward to obtain that from within the practice and it is highly likely that your usual vet is already aware of things and may have been involved with the diagnosis. Sometimes these things end up exploring the most likely causes first and then discarding them if proven not to be the problem.However nobody on here has seen the horse let alone the blood results! so how can they diagnose whats wrong with your horse .There are many causes for the raised levels in the blood however dont go looking for extreme problems that are most likely not there and worrying more! I am sorry but it is what I think is the worst of this forum when posters try to second guess the professionals even though they have never seen the animal and quite often have only half the story.
I know you are worried about your horse but you wont

find the answer here!
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A bit harsh the op is just asking nothing wrong in that what harm is it doing.
 
Pinkvboots said:
A bit harsh the op is just asking nothing wrong in that what harm is it doing.
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I was trying not to be harsh!,However you see many threads like this were the opinions of a vet a being questioned and then second guessed by all and sundry who have never seen the horse and to put it bluntly they have nothing to lose if they get it wrong.
The OP will be upset about their horse and I am not criticising them for it and I sympathise . I would say though from talking to vets the quickest way to upset them is to post on here and show no confidence in their professional opinion as the horse world is a small one. I just feel in situations like this you should sit down with the vet and explore why they are treating your horse as they are and what the possible issues are. If you really feel that is not something you can do then accept you have the wrong vet dealing with it. Everybody is entitled to a second opinion and if you really want to ask somebody more senior within the practice for that have the balls to explain to the first vet why you are doing that rather than go behind their back. Like I say it is very likely that the senior vet has already been asked their opinion. It is very easy to turn the whole practice against you.
It is very easy to come up with lots of answers to problems particularly with the internet and books but as they say a little knowledge is a bad thing.
 
If you know your horse isn't right but the vet treating hasn't come up with any answers, you are perfectly entitled to look for answers elsewhere.

Asking advice on a forum is not "going behind the vets back" and id hope that anyone qualified to be a vet wouldn't be childish enough to be offended. Also, if you're entire vet practice is likely to turn against you for looking for alternative solutions, I'd change vets immediately.

It is healthy for opinions to be questioned, it is healthy to look for other answers where there has been no diagnosis but the horse isn't right.

Also, vets are not infallible and the forum can be of massive help from an experience point of view. Ovarian cyst thread in tack room now is a perfect example. Vet didn't think it would be that, on the suggestions of forum members owner insisted in scan, horse is going in for surgery to have huge cyst removed.

Vet was wrong but if vet is good vet, she'll be relieved to have been able to help horse, not peeved that diagnosis was made after advice from others.

Problems occur when people treat on the strength of forum advice, without vet or contrary to vet. Not when people pursue other avenues to obtain a diagnosis from a vet, and treat with vets advice.
 
Fwiw infection can result in raised total protein and abnormal liver function. They should return to normal once the infection is cleared
 
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