How many horses who got laminitis were in work at the time?

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My horse got it last year but had been retired for 5 years. He is borderline Cushings but also Insulin Resistant and two vets thought this was the problem. Since then he has lost a lot of weight and is being ridden 5 days a week. Yesterday he had a gallop and loved it (if you had told me a year ago I would be doing this with him I wouldn't have believed you).

It just got me wondering about how many horses who get it were off work at the time.
 
Mine was in light-medium work when he got it - in the middle of winter! Was a huge shock as he was a good weight (confirmed by the vet) and was hacking 4-5 times a week. As he's a native, we'd always watched him like a hawk so it was gutting to have a freak but very acute attack when his management was, again confirmed by the vet, very good.

Since then, he's had the odd footy day, but never a full blown attack, touch wood!
 
My big lad had been in regular work all winter (hacking 4-5 times a week 45 minutes to 1hr) and schooling, bit of light jumping etc right up until last week. Had restricted him and my TB (retired and tubby) about a month ago but possibly it was too much for him still.

About 10 days ago he was noticably footy and was standing a bit oddly and had real trouble turning to the left. I am not entirely sure it isn't some kind of concussion laminitis as it coincided with him engaging in some extra activities.

Vet and farrier saw him last week. He's been restricted to part of the field that's mostly weeds and dirt (thankfully well drained so not too muddy) and on soaked hay with danilon, started on 2 a day, now on 1 a day, will taper off during the week. He's got another week of that, see how he goes, at that stage if he comes up lame again he will need further investigatory work, starting with x-rays.
 
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Mine was in full work and had never been fitter. Thought to have been concussive lami, but she is lucky to have got through it, she is a big heavy horse.
 
AdorableAlice said:
Mine was in full work and had never been fitter. Thought to have been concussive lami, but she is lucky to have got through it, she is a big heavy horse.
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That's like mine! I guess the treatment is the same as for grass induced laminitis?
 
Mine was in quite hard work and came down with it after a twenty mile ride, we had done more roadwork than usual though which probably contributed.
 
skint1 said:
That's like mine! I guess the treatment is the same as for grass induced laminitis?
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Yes it was, very deep bed, soaked hay, 3 weeks in the box, pain relief and small walks in hand when she was more comfortable. This is her, she is a cob but there is not a lot of spare flesh on her. I was so shocked and worried about her when it happened. It is not something I have ever had to deal with before and she went from bouncing to crippled overnight.

Interestingly her feet have a ring of red around the base of each hoof now, 7 weeks after she went down with it.

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This is me on my first horse, pictured towards the end of a busy hunting season. She was 17 here, two years older than me! She was trim and fit.

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Shortly after the photo was taken, she went down with what the vet said was concussive laminitis.

She did come sound again, thank goodness. She was a family pet who was in the family for many years, first with my sister, then me.
 
Beautiful girls! Adorable Alice, that is interesting, so the feet tell the story that clearly some kind of episode did occur. Tiddlypom, your mare looks very fit, I must admit my guy was perhaps a bit more porky than either of your mares



For my horse, I think grass may have been a factor, but perhaps exacerbated by a busy few days. My boy has another couple weeks off and I hope when he comes back in to work he will be fine.
 
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Mine had had three weeks of due it being January and being under three feet of snow....before that he was ridden six days a week for at least an hour mainly hacking fast work and had just completed a 22km ride.

Turned out he was also insulin resistant as well and the three weeks off on the snowy ground.juat tipped him over.
 
Mine was 25 at the time and was a happy hacker worked most days, he is 37 now diagnosed with cushings Nov 15
 
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