smallgirl
Well-Known Member
I was wondering if you coudl have a think about the current situation with my horse please....it is a bit long so please bear with me...I am looking for advce and opinions as I feel a bit lost just now....
I have a horse who reacted last autumn (Oct) to steroid injections to his hocks for arthiritis giving him laminitis, he had a repeat course of treatment this spring (mid May) with 1/4 of the dose and went down with lami again, I caught it much earlier this time but still it was two weeks of horrendous box rest (he is not good at it) then turned him out with a muzzle while the spring grass came through (rest of May/June/early July).
Last night he cantered over to me at the gate as normal, as I walked him up the hill he wasn't as keen and bounding forwards as usual, tacked him up and as soon as I got on and tried to turn him he was relectunt to move his front feet across to make the turn, so I untacked him and walked/trotted him up which he was reluctant to do, he was more shuffly than lame if that makes sense both at walk and trot. There were no cuts, swelling or heat in any leg.
So as you can imagine alarm bells rang! Cue getting him onto a deep bed, soaking some hay, and checking his digital pulse, which was present but not bounding.
I rang the vet who popped out about an hour and a half later, when I walked him out he was sound in walk and trot, but the Vet agreed that his pulses were present but whether they were raised he wasn't convinced, he was the same vet who saw him in the spring with Lami and in his opinion this was not as bad as that time, he advised some Sedalin but nothing else overnight.
So I kept him in last night with some soaked hay and gave him some Sedalin. This morning he is sound but the pulses are the same, the Vet said if anything changed to call him if not then think about turning him out, I wouldn't say anything has changed by this morning however I have left him in again today as I am not 110% sure and wouldn't forgive myself if I turned him out and he got worse.
Ok what are peoples thoughts on this?
Does anyone with Lami horses have any experince of this?
Is he being a bit 'footy' (like older lami horses get sometimes)
Any other opinions?......
I have a horse who reacted last autumn (Oct) to steroid injections to his hocks for arthiritis giving him laminitis, he had a repeat course of treatment this spring (mid May) with 1/4 of the dose and went down with lami again, I caught it much earlier this time but still it was two weeks of horrendous box rest (he is not good at it) then turned him out with a muzzle while the spring grass came through (rest of May/June/early July).
Last night he cantered over to me at the gate as normal, as I walked him up the hill he wasn't as keen and bounding forwards as usual, tacked him up and as soon as I got on and tried to turn him he was relectunt to move his front feet across to make the turn, so I untacked him and walked/trotted him up which he was reluctant to do, he was more shuffly than lame if that makes sense both at walk and trot. There were no cuts, swelling or heat in any leg.
So as you can imagine alarm bells rang! Cue getting him onto a deep bed, soaking some hay, and checking his digital pulse, which was present but not bounding.
I rang the vet who popped out about an hour and a half later, when I walked him out he was sound in walk and trot, but the Vet agreed that his pulses were present but whether they were raised he wasn't convinced, he was the same vet who saw him in the spring with Lami and in his opinion this was not as bad as that time, he advised some Sedalin but nothing else overnight.
So I kept him in last night with some soaked hay and gave him some Sedalin. This morning he is sound but the pulses are the same, the Vet said if anything changed to call him if not then think about turning him out, I wouldn't say anything has changed by this morning however I have left him in again today as I am not 110% sure and wouldn't forgive myself if I turned him out and he got worse.
Ok what are peoples thoughts on this?
Does anyone with Lami horses have any experince of this?
Is he being a bit 'footy' (like older lami horses get sometimes)
Any other opinions?......