I am turning in to a paranoid wreck :(

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Nitty was good yesterday so I was worried she was feeling under the weather.

BH has what looks like a little sarcoid on his belly. Vet saw it months ago and said just leave it unless it does something. But now I'm panicking again. It hasn't changed for over a year but I am just having a melt down.

I never used to be like this :( Sometimes having the horses isn't fun any more. They just constantly stress me out! Is it because I'm getting older? Am I just going to get worse and worse as time goes on?

If having horses makes me like this, what must it be like to have a baby?! :eek:
 
Its what owning nitty has done to you :p lets face it she has had more than her fair share of problems and made them out of nothing really.

Any way its a rubbish feeling :( hope it goes soon.
 
horses have become more worrying every little thing they do i'm like whats up with them... could be to do with my lot loving the vets attention that he is down at least once a week for different things

hope your bunch are ok the old days when you could go out for hours and leave them out for hours in the field have long gone now there are far to many implications
 
jesstickle said:
It just doesn't seem fun any more.

Hope your bunch are all ok?
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I went to check them yesterday morning and my chestnut mare was lame on a different leg! :( She then had a freak out because the postman came, the same postman who comes at the same time six days a week. *sigh*

The never ending problems really wear you down, but I either keep going with the Vet and farrier and try to get her sound or PTS, which I don't want to do while there's hope that she'll get better.

I think that Nitty's problems have probably made you quite sensitive to lameness and illnesses with your horses too. It's quite understandable, but tough to deal with nonetheless.

I hope you feel better tomorrow. :)
 
O F :( You'll get there with her.

I'm sure it is Nitty that's done me in. I never used to worry like I do now. Sigh.
 
JT I think it's the weather :rolleyes:

It's getting us all down :(

But like you, I am a paranoid wreck :(

La - supposed to be on box rest - has stopped eating her HorseHage today. Will I sleep tonight for worrying? :rolleyes:

It'll get better soon. I hope. Hang on in there chick :cool:
 
Perhaps we should have a paranoid wreck support group? I'm with you .......

Annie is lame tonight, my lovely ginger furrball has kidney failure and I'm convinced my OH is going to kill himself driving whilst exhausted .....

And breathe .....
 
Can I join the club too? My old boy fell onto his knees a couple of weeks ago and really badly skinned them and hurt his rider (not me). He barely ever even trips so I'm now terrified for his safety and worried it was sight related as it is deteriorating rapidly. :(
 
Of course Ac.

I sincerely hope he just tripped, nothing more, nothing less.

BH has been tripping since he came back into work :( I'm trying to ignore it!
 
Everyone, breathe!

I have to admit, I'm a nervous wreck now when it comes to Megan. Since her 'mystery illness' and colic, anything new that happens in her life automatically puts her on Colic Watch!

Took her to the forest the other week and did quite a lot with her....result? I kept her in overnight and I texted the YO at quite unreasonable hours asking if she was ok (all because she was a little tucked in when I left). :o
 
I think we need a support group! Can I join? I have an old decrepid horse, a four week old foal on box rest who's mum is losing weight and I'm trying to rebacking my three year old in this pants weather in a large field! All of my nerves are fizzled!!!
 
Oh I am right behind you!

I am permanently paranoid over my boys.
Had the emergency vet out to my TB on sunday as he looked a bit colicy, raised temperature/heart rate.
Bloods were run, turns out nothing sinister - probably just a virus. I had a dreadful nights sleep worrying about him. Get up there in the morning and he is as right as rain.
I have a new horse on loan to me - so everyone thinks he was just reminding me that actually he is my number one....

Now that's another story with my new loan horse. He is so loved by his family and was born on their farm. They have had him for nearly 20 years - so you can imagine how precious I am over him. I love him dearly already but worry about him all the time.

If I was really into drinking I could cheerfully become an alcoholic....
I would fail miserably though because after 2 glasses I'm on the floor :D
 
Can I join?!

Silver had an hour on the grass today and came in feeling his feet with pulses... He's in pain constantly now even on bute so thinking i'm having to make 'the' decision sooner rather than later... :(


Buddy has a lump on his chest that I thought was an insect bite but now is hard in the middle and soft around so thinking he have something in it... if it doesn't go down by tomorrow then it'll be vet job...


And breath.
 
If it makes you feel any better when you have a baby you stop worrying about the horses as much...and miraculously everyone still survives! :) Hang in there!
 
Gosh I know this feeling well - my horse managed to turn me into a nervous wreck with his various issues. No other horse has made me panic so much! He now has a permanent sick note and lives the life of reilly. I, on the other hand, have heart failure if he even trips slightly :rolleyes:

He has turned me into such a wreck that I haven't even been able to contemplate buying another because a) I end up scrutinising everything and it looking lame and b) I just don't think my sanity could cope with a second - there's too much of a chance of the second being the same as the first!

I hope you feel better tomorrow and normal service is resumed :)
 
Oh dear JT. I know exactly where you're coming from. After all I've been through with my grey mare I worry relentlessly that Charlie is going to break.
 
Honestly Puppy. I have become ridiculous. I keep making poor K watch me run my horse up and down, lunge him, chase him across the field. And she just looks at me and says 'but he's sound' to which I can only reply, in my most feeble and guilt ridden voice ' I know'. Because I do know really. But what I see with my eyes and what my brain sees are not the same thing.


Everyone who has a nightmare horse, I think you (and me) should tell them in the morning how much of a burden they have heaped on their poor owners! Naughty creatures!
 
It's what coming on HHO does to you, reading all the horror stories day in day out makes us paranoid!! we discover new diseases and conditions to diagnose our horses with, we panic that any unusual behaviour must be pain related and call out the saddler, back man and vet and question every decision because so and so on HHO does it differently;)
 
If only it was paranoia.

When you know something's not right, its not right. Trust yourself.

That's not to say its necessarily something awful, incurable or never going to be right, just that you are picking up on something that is there, even though you can't put your finger on what it is and other people can't even see it.

Worrying is another thing altogether, everyone having a good run fears things going wrong, but I don't think horse owners are paranoid, the exact opposite tbh. Horses just have stuff wrong with them a lot. **sigh**
 
Oh god can I join the club?!! My girl always gets a bit of a farty belly as soon as the grass starts coming through and she had a very mild touch of gas colic last night - laying flat out in the stable for 15 mins groaning and farting!! I automatically start imagining surgery/death/the world disintegrating!! She stood up twenty mins later, farted loudly and was perfectly normal again. Que me worrying myself sick all day today and monitoring every flicker of the eyelid tonight before I left her! :(
 
Can I join to please? After lamness problems sometimes I've got so worked up I'm looking at retirement livery. I study his every move convincing myself he's tweaked tendons/ligaments got navicular etc. It's an awful feeling.
 
jesstickle said:
Honestly Puppy. I have become ridiculous. I keep making poor K watch me run my horse up and down, lunge him, chase him across the field. And she just looks at me and says 'but he's sound' to which I can only reply, in my most feeble and guilt ridden voice ' I know'. Because I do know really. But what I see with my eyes and what my brain sees are not the same thing.


Everyone who has a nightmare horse, I think you (and me) should tell them in the morning how much of a burden they have heaped on their poor owners! Naughty creatures!
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^^totally know this feeling...you get to the point where you have forgotten what a sound horse looks like! I have a mare that has had something wrong with her every 5 minutes for 10 years now....she is now on box rest til the weekend as she has bruised feet...we thought it was Lami but vet decided it wasn't.....it does get you down, my almost 3yo trots of up the field and I watch him 'expecting' him to be lame!! how sad is that!

We all do it for those big brown eyes (not forgetting some blue ones) and for those amazing memories that you will NEVER forget! It is just unfortunate that there are crap bits inbetween!

Chin up...you defo need hugs
 
Eurgh. I find myself almost waiting for something to go wrong with mine. Not mainly even just mine, any horse. I see a sloppy poo on the road and I panic that whatever horse pooed it out, has liver failure (first horse was pts at 6 due to it), when obviously it is just the grass.
A horse that currently lives next door to a clients ponies, is a chronic wind sucker/cribber, it's terribly poor looking and sad. All it does is crib crib crib all day long, I saw it hacking today and it just walked along with it's head hanging and I almost burst into tears!!! It belong to a local R/S (if you can call it that), who buys and sells, and I hate to think who will end up with it and I think how with better management and good grazing I could have it for my mum to hack (I couldn't, I have too many horses...) and I could look after it and give it a happier life.
SOB. Help me. Lol. :(
 
I was very paranoid with my first horse... Totally precious with her. Until one day she had a hooley round the field and broke her leg.

Love my boy to bits now but he is a hooligan in the field and a s*** to handle quite often... regularly gets away from those leading him and gallops round the farm like a mad thing

Moral of my story... Worrying about them won't stop them hurtin themselves sadly... Luckily
for me I have this firmly in my head as would be a wreck with current horse otherwise. He's a thug x
 
can i join please? both mine had strangles at the end of last year, every time i hear a horse cough i panic. my mare has pretended several times over the past 6 years that she was going to die - oh yeah as well as having lameness issues and my 5 year old 'gelding' was doibg the deed with her in the field yesterday and now worried that hes a rig and shell get preggers!

mad!
 
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