I am so fed up - Grace lame again :(

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I went to bring Grace in tonight and she was absolute hopping lame again on a small circle (noticed it first time when I turned her to get through the gate). It is exactly the same lameness, foot etc as it was last week when I had the vet up and he thought it was an abscess. She had the weekend off, then was completely sound and has been worked all week. Then today she has gone back as bad if not worse
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So now I am beginning to think there is something more sinister happening in the foot and am thinking of requesting a scan because the vet did not know what it was last time and because she did not become more lame after his visit he then suspected a pull of some sort but from looking at how she was putting the foot down tonight it definitely looks to be in the foot somewhere because she was walking toe heel if you know what I mean.

Has anyone else had their horse's foot scanned?
 
My lad had an abcess 2 years ago that would settle and then flair up again. I couldn't get anything to drain out of it cos I couldn't find the right exit point to poultice. Eventually after about 3 weeks the abcess came out through his heel. So there might still be a chance of the problem being an abcess. Fingers crossed.
 
Oh dear
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One of client's horses had an MRI done - it gives very good pictures (I saw full vet report; foot was scanned on various plates) but I would say ask for a proper interpretation of what you see.
Fingers crossed for a quick back to form!
 
Have you tried hot tubbing it as often as possible with epsom salts?? we used to do this with the racers to draw the abcess out and found it pretty sucessful, it can take a few atempts and you need the water as hot as they can stand but it might just draw it enough for you to get to it, fingers crossed!!
 
Hi becki - sorry to read this - I'd def get it scanned - H was like that (I was told to poultice it) - Turned out she'd torn her annular ligament - good job I listened to myself and called vets and didn't poultice!
Good luck
Kate x
 
Thanks Kate... I just don't think it is an abscess and I don't know why. I just think because it is always the same foot, there has to be something more going on in there.
 
My pony is walking toe heel at the moment, he had a x-ray last week and was dianosed with navicular, I would call you vet and arrange for an x-ray if you are sure its his foot and cannot find the cause
 
Hi Becki,

I had my mare MRI scanned, it gives such accurate results but you'd have to get a referral to a hospital from your vets and then get your insurances 'buy in' as the average cost is about £1500 just for the scan.

First thing I would do is talk to your vet about your concerns and that you'd like to get to the bottom of it and see what he recommends.

Have you nerve blocked her already?
 
Have you had any x-rays done yet? Cheaper than a scan and may reveal something that would mean you don't necessarily need to cough up for a scan.

Patches was walking toe-heel this time last year and she was quite lame when trotted on a circle. Upon x-raying it was obvious that her foot was out of balance. She had her toes cut back, more heel support and her toes rolled to improve the breakover point. The result was instant. She immediately became sound when trotted on a circle.

It's not necessarily doom and gloom. Fingers crossed.
 
Fingers crossed it's some sort of abcess. Surely with a sprain/tendon tear type injury she wouldn't have gone sound then lame again.
Flo has been going so well recently, and then had a really bad cellulitis last week with elephant leg/raised temp/off food etc, so I know how you feel at the moment.
Hope she is right as rain soon and something nasty pops out of her foot.

Fiona
 
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