Help desperatley needed for my horse ( pics) , he is not right.

Poor horse, hope you find out what the problem is, sounds like he needs some urgent help.

Not sure what it is about vets and colic - when one of the RS ponies had quite obviously neurological symptoms (she looked drunk, could hardly stand up without wobbling over, couldn't walk in a straight line etc.) the vet tried to tell us it could be colic, her gut was slightly noisy so he gave her an anti-spasmodic. She collapsed and went into a full blown fit (never seen anything quite as horrific as this). Somehow dont' think it was colic!
 
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I would definitely say it was pain related. I had a polo pony that suddenly you couldn't bridle. When turned out it ran around it's field with it's head down and got really aggitated and angry about everything. Got the vet and it turned out to have a huge abscess in it's poll area. The vet stuck a needle in and a fountain of puss came out- you could literally see the horse go 'aghhhhhhh' and relaxing immediately.
To self harm like that your horse must be very uncomfortable. Could it possibly be sinus?....................something is defiantely irritating the hell out of him and I would get him looked over properly before he harms himself even more trying to get relief.

Best of luck!
 
He went into the vets last night as he wouldn't eat. The bloods were normal . They scoped his ears and washed them out with drops and then left him over night as he was sedated.
They said if he was no better they would do further tests.
He ate his tea last night but not his breakfast.
They are now looking at his gutteral pouches as they think he is sensitive in that area.
 
charlie76 said:
He went into the vets last night as he wouldn't eat. The bloods were normal . They scoped his ears and washed them out with drops and then left him over night as he was sedated.
They said if he was no better they would do further tests.
He ate his tea last night but not his breakfast.
They are now looking at his gutteral pouches as they think he is sensitive in that area.
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You must be terribly worried.

I really hope that they get to the bottom of it and he makes a speedy recovery.

Please keep us updated, when you can.
 
I would also suggest refferel to a specialist equine clinic a.s.a.p. as it sounds as if there could be a neaurological issue. The symptoms almost sound like Rabies.
I hope that he makes a quick recovery.
 
Hope horsio gets well soon.

Id be more inclined to say neuro rather than ears... I think the picture of where the trauma to his face is can be used as a very visable sign as to where the pain is localised if that where he has been rubbing on a fence. But then if it is to do with nerves could very well be transfered..

I would be getting him into an equine hospital to do scans and more investigating

Really hope he makes a full recovery

Xxx
 
poor boy that eye looks painfull.


I am surprised the vet did not look down his ear, could be insect - mites - grass seed - thorn .Any chance there was a was around ( i know its late for them but i saw one today )


I would def get the vet out again specially when he carried on after the vet had gone. I too would have ask them to come back that same night .
Doesnt sound like colic at all.

Has he had ulcers before?? Uveitis? any sort of trauma to the head.
other than that neurological .

You need to get to bottom of this before he hurts himself even more.

I just read your update sorry
 
Hi. So sorry to hear about your horse's problems. We experienced nearly the same thing about two months ago. Our horse was perfectly normal eating his hay in his stable when all of a sudden he went berserk, biting at his shoulder, shaking his head, jumping round the stable, and the skin on his side was twitching! We thought he had been stung by a wasp and called the vet, who gave him bute and antihistamines. He settled down and was fine the next morning and I rode him as normal. However, in the evening the same symptoms developed and we had to keep walking him round and round. We called the vet again and he was sent into hospital the next day. He had loads of tests (at a cost of nearly £5,000.00! luckily under insurance) his bloods were normal, the only thing they found was slight degeneration of the joint near his shoulder (but this is so minor they didnt think it was the cause!), or on one of the other tests (EMG I think) the nerve tests showed something not quite normal but could not specify the area!

The diagnosis for our horse from our vets is some sort of neuralgia which in horses is very hard to treat!
The neuralgia our horse has developed is probably occurring because of a nerve (somewhere) firing indicrimanately. It is similar to Head Shaking Syndrome, where the nerve affected in that case is the trigeminal nerve in the side of the horses' face, but in our horse's case it is an unknown nerve.

The vets prescribed a drug called 'Gabapentin', which is a drug used for humans but which is now used for horses suffering from nerve irritation. When he is not on this drug our horse becomes mad with pain and is dangerous to be around. The Gabapentin is extremely expensive and under our insurance our horse is only covered for the next couple of months for this drug. We are terrified of what will happen when he has to be withdrawn from it ad the vets confess that there is nothing else that they can offer. We are just hoping that he will have been on the drug long enough to relieve the nerve problem!

Hopefully, this above is something to consider if your vets cannot diagnose something less severe than our horse.

Very best wishes to you and Pico - please let us know the final diagnosis.
Pat
 
So very sorry to read this. Is there any further news on this horse. I really feel for the owner. Please keep us updated if you can.

Kind regards

KA
 
Gabapeptin is a drug used for some types of epilepsy. Effective then in some kinds of neurological issues. Thoughts with the OP. Really distressing when your animal is unwell and you and the vet are unsure how to treat. Hope that he is now in a specialised hospital. We had a 12.2 show pony that went berserk one day in his box, throwing himself into the walls and onto the floor. Poor lad had a brain tumour.
 
My horse (27 years old) had a smelly discharge from her nose which did not respond to anti-biotics. She also was not eating as well as before and sweeping her head against the side of the stables. She was referred to Rossdale's horse hospital in Newmarket by my vet and they examined her, endoscoped her and took x-rays. The endoscopy and x-rays showed that there was a discharge from her sinus's. They carried out a procedure to clear out her sinus's under heavy sedation. She was at Rossdale's for 10 days and came back a new horse. The consultant vet advised me that she probably had suffered bad headaches because of the build up in the sinus's.
 
To be honest I would push to get him sent to the nearest Hospital asap (especially if he is insured) I sounds like he needs round the clock care to make sure he doesn't do something like this again. poor boy :(
Good luck!
 
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