How to deal with an intermittant lameness

[teasle]

Since january my horse has been intermittantly lame. He has been lame on about 8 occasions that I know of, and is lame now. On all but 2 times he felt lame when I rode, but when I returned to the yard and trotted him up he looked ok. As part of trying to deal with it he has had a new saddle. On one occasion he was still lame on our return to the yard, and I got a vet to se him. He investigated and nerve blocked the foot and determined that the lameness was not in the foot. He asked us to come to the surgery for further investigations but on the day we went he was sound and no more investigations could be done. Since then the next time he was lame my vet was ill himself and could not come, and now he has gone lame at the weekend so I cant get him seen, but I will be phoning the surgery this morning. I really dont know what to do and feel so depressed and anxious as I caant get a diagnosis.

 

[ameeyal]

Have you tried box rest/ or just turning him out with out being ridden for a few weeks, my friends horse does what your horse does, the vet came out and said we will start with box rest and bute just to aliminate laminitis, then if she isnt sound we will nerve block/exray to see if anything shows up.

 

[teasle]

Well he is lame again today,and my vet is coming tomorrow. This is the longest period he has been visibly lame and I only hope it is still showing tomorrow. When the nerve block was done last time the lameness was not in the foot, so I dont think it can be laminitis.