Gutted - opinions please

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I know this should be in vets but I thought different people might read it in here

Daisy is lame again
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A quick recap...she first went very lame over four weeks ago, no obvious reason but farrier thought it might be her shoes, she had them changed, kept on box rest for 8 days before being brought gradually back into work. She has been back in full work for ten days now and felt perfectly happy cantering and jumping, her old self again. She had a jumping lesson on Tues and was then very slightly lame yesterday with a slight nod on about every 3rd or 4th stride, so slight that you wouldn't notice if you didn't know she had been lame a few weeks ago. Hoped that it might be nothing so tucked her up last night but she is more lame today, noticeably nodding on each stride in trot.

I don't know what to do
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There is no heat, no swelling, there's nothing wrong with her shoes and there is no pattern to what I have been doing the two times she has gone lame. Both times it seems to have started mild and got worse. Presumably if I get the vet out and she's only 1/10th lame there isn't much he can see? I expect that if I rest her for a week she'll be fine but I don't then want her to go lame again when I bring her back into work. We had so much planned for this summer, I think she heard me talking

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I always get the farrier to have a look first. Things like abcesses can come and go appearing to get better then flare up again so worth him having a look
 
I'd get the vet out. They're more likely to be able to identify where the lameness is coming from. Given the history, they might also be inclined to x-ray and have a look whats going on structurally (particularly if theres no heat or swelling to be found).

How old is she?
 
i wondered about the ground but we were only jumping 2ft out of trot so the concussion can't have been much more than that which you would have on a nice pacy hack. She was treating them like raised trotting poles really.

Unfortunately I can't be there when the vet comes so YO meets him for me but it means I can't have a full conversation with him.

Do you reckon vet would mind if I rang him to ask on the best course of action? I don't want to waste his time if the lameness is too lame for him to diagnose
 
Well the thing is, the vet cant advise until they see it. They may see something that you dont for example.

Personally i would want it looking into. If, for example, its the start of some arthritic changes, earlier caught means better prognosis
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Would echo everyone else, definitely time to get the vet out for a lameness check. As owners we may not be able to see anything obvious, but this is what we pay the professionals for, vets know which bits to press, hold up, flex etc, to get a response and often it is a nasty surprise how much of a lame response they can get!

I agree with Tierra, the sooner you get a diagnosis the better, particularly if it is anything like athritis.

Good luck, hope it all turns out to be something of nothing.
 
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