Feel sick to my stomach (tendon)

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Bonkers black pony has just pulled out of his stable hopping lame, heat and swelling upper inside of tendon. Bonkers black pony is never ever lame despite wheelies, handbrake turns, power slides etc. Just finished one horses 2yr tendon rehab, mine won't box rest like he did. Sitting icing it wanting to cry. Wishing is never gone to gallops yesterday.

It's my birthday too.
 
Oh no :( how rubbish. Fingers crossed for you that he has just twinged it and is making a big fuss over nothing much.

Best advice I have at the moment - if you want to cry, then cry. Have a good wail and sob, and get it out of your system so you have your sensible head on for when the vet comes. My mare trod on a rusty nail once, and I bawled my eyes out for about half an hour, then felt a bit better for it, and was at least half reasonable when the vet arrived.
Finger, toes, arms, eyes, everything crossed for you! ((Hugs))
L x
 
Laura-C said:
Oh no :( how rubbish. Fingers crossed for you that he has just twinged it and is making a big fuss over nothing much.

Best advice I have at the moment - if you want to cry, then cry. Have a good wail and sob, and get it out of your system so you have your sensible head on for when the vet comes. My mare trod on a rusty nail once, and I bawled my eyes out for about half an hour, then felt a bit better for it, and was at least half reasonable when the vet arrived.
Finger, toes, arms, eyes, everything crossed for you! ((Hugs))
L x
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This. Have a good cry (even if it is your birthday) and try not to borrow trouble (my darling MIL's favourite saying). It is natural for your imagination to run away with you, but try and remember that it could be ANYthing and let the vet do his/her work and deal with what comes as it comes.

Will be thinking of you.

P

P.S. Happy belated birthday x
 
Thanks so much, it's hard to keep my imagination in check. I've left him tucking into some hay, novelty of going into a different stable (so he has a view of his mate in the field) meant he was happy to go in. I've left him in peace as I think me fussing about would just stress him out.
 
Happy birthday!!!

Try not to stress. No point, until you know exactly what you are dealing with. Sometimes minor bangs and knocks blow up overnight in the stable because the limb isnt mobile.

Get the vet.

If it is serious, take it one day at a time.

No sense with 'what ifs'. If we wrapped them in bubble wrap, they'd be miserable and so would we. You guys were enjoying yourselves - that's what it is all about. Accidents, sprains, strains etc can happen anywhere. Please, please don't blame yourself!!

Good luck
 
Try not to worry, I need both hands to count the amount of times I've had a horse come out with a ominous looking puffy leg only for it to turn out to be nothing and be back to normal in a week. Infact it happened last month to me with the horse I share, stopped to stand in the school, walked off, she was hopping lame, got off, her leg started to swell, I had a panic, 4 days later she was fine....

Big deep breaths :)
 
To me it sounds more of an abcess. The swelling at the top of the tendon is probably the vein up. Warm foot, digital pulse, very lame are all signs. Tendons tend to have more localised swelling all round the affected area.

Every horse is different though and your vet will be able to tell you what you need to know.
 
Oh dear...why do they always do it on 'special' days! I seem to have been pretty lucky (touch wood) with lameness issues but my TB gave me the scare of my life a few weeks ago when he was literally on 3 legs...I thought he had broke a leg, obviously I got the vet out who couldnt find anything obvious (very slight swelling on fetlock) cold hosed for 3 days and was 100% sound in 4 days!!
What I am trying to say is dont panic...it is just as likely to be something quite trivial that can be easily resolved, let us know what the vet says and HAPPY BIRTHDAY
 
Vet will be out at 1130, I did wonder if it could be foot. Or laminitis (old pony came in crippled but not classic signs). Or any one of a thousand things. Busting myself reading hho picture threads and watching trash tv. On plus side I had booked day off for my birthday, so at least I'm free to wait for vet. Will keep you posted.
 
Preliminary examination says it is a check ligament or tendon. Vet says good news is that swelling is minimal so possibly a minor tweak. She is surprised by how lame he is for the amount of swelling. Danilon and box rest for a week and then reassess in a week once he has been off the danilon for 48 hours.

If the improvement is good then chances are it is a minor tweak and in 6 weeks he should be back to turnout and light work. If not then I guess we go the scan route and go from there.

Im so worried because he isn't an easy horse, turnout and a good bomb round keeps him sane. Months sof box rest followed by in hand walking is filling me with dread.

It's all so frustrating as I am recovering from 2 years of excruciating pain following a slipped disc. Im just starting to feel okay. And my sisters horse is just back to cantering etc after 2 years off with a DDFT injury.
 
She was as thorough as can be without actually scanning him. Trying to come up with a cunning plan now of how to manage him, do ice treatments etc around my job and the other horses turnout. It's going to be a tough winter.
 
Oh that's rubbish :( No point scanning today though, as the swelling will need to go down first. Keep on with the ice therapy and cold hosing as much as you can over the next 48 hours particularly.

Take it a day at a time, don't think the worst x

Is he normally quite 'sensitive' about injuries?
 
He has never really had an injury before, despite all his ridiculous behaviour bombing about, falling over, acting like the devil is chasing him, so i don't really know what his pain threshold is like. I always think he's quite a tough little horse but that is in part because he acts crazy but hasn't been injured!

I've always dreaded being told he needs significant box rest as I don't think he would cope well. Ive already bought him a stable mirror and he has two treat balls for pony nuts and carrots, but any other ideas would be appreciated for keeping him happy.
 
KatPT said:
Im so worried because he isn't an easy horse, turnout and a good bomb round keeps him sane. Months sof box rest followed by in hand walking is filling me with dread.
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You've just described Willy, who has now done his suspensory twice and coped with box rest okay. I won't pretend it was a breeze, but with calmers + controlling his food intake to be as non heating as possible, we made it work.

First time he was out for months (without surgical intervention, just rest and natural healing) but it's the sort of injury that is likely to happen again. It's been 7 weeks since he strained the suspensory and we discovered a lesion on his tendon. While I'm not going to ride him for quite some time, he's sound, we'll leave him til the end of winter then scan to make sure before he gets worked.
 
KatPT said:
Preliminary examination says it is a check ligament or tendon. Vet says good news is that swelling is minimal so possibly a minor tweak. She is surprised by how lame he is for the amount of swelling. Danilon and box rest for a week and then reassess in a week once he has been off the danilon for 48 hours.

If the improvement is good then chances are it is a minor tweak and in 6 weeks he should be back to turnout and light work. If not then I guess we go the scan route and go from there.

Im so worried because he isn't an easy horse, turnout and a good bomb round keeps him sane. Months sof box rest followed by in hand walking is filling me with dread.

It's all so frustrating as I am recovering from 2 years of excruciating pain following a slipped disc. Im just starting to feel okay. And my sisters horse is just back to cantering etc after 2 years off with a DDFT injury.
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Little pony did this, came out on 3 legs after standing in for an hour. He did more damage to him self trying to beat up his stable door, which caused far more hasle than the original injury. He is now back out doing pc with his small jockey and generally having fun keeping up his reputation as the baddest pony in the fens.

Fingers crossed for your boy, he always looks like such a fun chap.
 
dafthoss said:
Little pony did this, came out on 3 legs after standing in for an hour. He did more damage to him self trying to beat up his stable door, which caused far more hasle than the original injury. He is now back out doing pc with his small jockey and generally having fun keeping up his reputation as the baddest pony in the fens.

Fingers crossed for your boy, he always looks like such a fun chap.
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Thank you, he is the best fun, happy and breezy and full of the joys of life. Following his anti-inflammatory injection today he came bounding out of the stable, sound as a pound, like a rocket this evening...whilst he needs the anti-inflammatories, i'm not sure painkillers are always a good thing! He thinks he is indestructible.

Thanks to everyone who has commented, its always reassuring to know you arent the only one.
 
My horse had a tendon injury a few years ago and it came right in a few weeks. For a start vet was all doom and gloom as horse was very lame. But after a weeks box rest and a scan it transpired it was not too bad. Horse was just being a drama queen! Hope all is ok.
 
Merlin11 said:
My horse had a tendon injury a few years ago and it came right in a few weeks. For a start vet was all doom and gloom as horse was very lame. But after a weeks box rest and a scan it transpired it was not too bad. Horse was just being a drama queen! Hope all is ok.
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That's encouraging. I'd been going to say he isn't the drama queen type but actually thinking on it he totally is, everything in his life requires staring at, snorting at and a huge over reaction, maybe pain is the same. I'm hoping for the best but planning for the worst.
 
Ice it as much as you can, and keep icing for the whole time bonner bandages are excellent I bought the ice in the supermarket and kept in a ice box by the the stable door.
You just have to get on with it accept that the bedding bill will be painful and keep a close eye on the feet for thrush try to keep them with a friend all the time get him a radio feed lots of fibre and lots of sorts of fibre groom daily try and get a roultine going so you spend as much time with him as possible but settle them to the same things happening at the same time of day.
it's rotten luck but checks usually heal very well let's hope that the scan when done shows minimal damage.
 
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