l_i_z_z_i_e
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I'll start at the beginning. Monday last week my horse became very itchy. She has ongoing allergy problems. Had vet out and she has had painkillers, steroids (powdered) and was sedated on Monday. Steroid course finished on Friday. She was very irritated for a couple of days and did a lot of pacing around the field.
I went out for the day on sat and on the way home had a call saying horse didn't look right. I went home on my way back and horse was hopping lame. Couldn't bring her into stable as she scratches on wall and will hurt herself. Called the vet who came straight out to have a look about 9pm sat eve.
Vet examined her, removed shoe. Very lame on near fore, strong pulse in that leg, and slight heat in the foot. Slight reaction to hoof testers on inside side of foot. Vet said to poultice, and we would arrange for farrier in a few days and see how she goes. 2x bute a day in dinner.
Farrier came this morning (3.5 days after vet visit), had a good look around, parred a bit of hoof away, but can't find anything. No reaction to hoof testers today. He has put shoe back on and she looks a little less lame with shoe on. She just fell asleep as usual when shoes was put back on, so farrier thinks its very unlikely it's an abscess. Outcome was that we couldn't really rule out anything at this stage.
So she has gone back out in her little pen in the field with hay, no poultice, and small space so limited walking and grass. Farrier is going to talk to vet (he was going there after) and let me know what they both think.
Both vet and farrier thinks it's unlikely to be laminitis, but a small chance it could be due to steroids. Farrier said could poss be bruised, tweaked something. My concern with this is that she is pretty lame, not just a little bit. She bruised her foot before and was a little bit off, not like this.
Any other ideas of things to try or what might be wrong? Has anyone had anything similar before?
I went out for the day on sat and on the way home had a call saying horse didn't look right. I went home on my way back and horse was hopping lame. Couldn't bring her into stable as she scratches on wall and will hurt herself. Called the vet who came straight out to have a look about 9pm sat eve.
Vet examined her, removed shoe. Very lame on near fore, strong pulse in that leg, and slight heat in the foot. Slight reaction to hoof testers on inside side of foot. Vet said to poultice, and we would arrange for farrier in a few days and see how she goes. 2x bute a day in dinner.
Farrier came this morning (3.5 days after vet visit), had a good look around, parred a bit of hoof away, but can't find anything. No reaction to hoof testers today. He has put shoe back on and she looks a little less lame with shoe on. She just fell asleep as usual when shoes was put back on, so farrier thinks its very unlikely it's an abscess. Outcome was that we couldn't really rule out anything at this stage.
So she has gone back out in her little pen in the field with hay, no poultice, and small space so limited walking and grass. Farrier is going to talk to vet (he was going there after) and let me know what they both think.
Both vet and farrier thinks it's unlikely to be laminitis, but a small chance it could be due to steroids. Farrier said could poss be bruised, tweaked something. My concern with this is that she is pretty lame, not just a little bit. She bruised her foot before and was a little bit off, not like this.
Any other ideas of things to try or what might be wrong? Has anyone had anything similar before?
. I've also seen steroid-induced lami . . . and it's the reason a former vet was very reluctant to prescribe steroids. I hope your mare makes a full (and quick) recovery.