Lame horse again! Just too much bad luck now!

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Holly Hocks

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Some of you will know that my horse has had a LOT of problems over the past 18 months. She started off with serious sinus problems which involved 2 stays in hospital totalling 3 months, had a bone chip removed from a fetlock on another stay, has been diagnosed with navicular, bilateral spavin and hind limb proximal suspensory ligament desmitis....
I go to get her in from the field tonight and she is crippled on her right fore. Common sense told me she had been farting around and pulled something (confirmed by another livery afterwards!), or that it was an abscess but the other part of me needed to get it confirmed that it wasn't a tendon injury as her leg was hot with a bounding digital pulse at the fetlock. So I called the vet. He THINKS it could be an abscess, but he's not 100% sure, so she's poulticed and going to spend the next few days in her stable. He was sure that it wasn't a tendon either, or anything related to the navicular, which I suppose is good
Does anyone else have this level of bad luck? And when do horses start to realise that money doesn't grow on trees?
I wouldn't mind, but she's not even in work anyway! All she has to do is move from stable to field and back again!
 
Yes, I am in the same boat, also have a navicular horse and various other problems and just when he starts to look quite good, he does something else!
I have sleepless nights stressing over him, wondering what the next day will bring, so you are not alone I sympathise!
 
OMG!!! You have my full sympathy! I have one who's had PSD in both hinds and my heart misses a beat when he has a hooley in the field - let alone what yours has been through. My fingers a completely crossed that it's 'only' and abcess!
 
pines of rome said:
Yes, I am in the same boat, also have a navicular horse and various other problems and just when he starts to look quite good, he does something else!
I have sleepless nights stressing over him, wondering what the next day will bring, so you are not alone I sympathise!
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Yep - that's just like mine! I was starting to think that her feet were improving and that her ligament might be healing....I was even thinking of starting to walk her out in hand in a few weeks after her next scan! But hey ho - back to the drawing board!
 
charmeroo said:
OMG!!! You have my full sympathy! I have one who's had PSD in both hinds and my heart misses a beat when he has a hooley in the field - let alone what yours has been through. My fingers a completely crossed that it's 'only' and abcess!
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Charmeroo - did the PSD heal? How long did it take to resolve?
 
I feel your pain. I'm on my 3rd horse and seem to be have the same levels of bad luck as the other two. In an effort to try and avoid bad luck and try and take reasonable precautions, I bought a 7 year old, correctly produced by a professional who had done everything and more that I wanted to do.

He is fab and my dream horse but now he is lame behind and we don't know why. Physio found lots wrong and we thought that might be it, but it turns out he was only fixing symptoms not the cause. So, booked into vets to go for full lameness work up - and comes in from field with an abscess! Now have to clear that back up and try again - giving me more weeks of stress and worry.

If I could think of another hobby I would pack up now and do it - but like everyone on here, I just can't!

Yours sounds exactly like an abscess so don't worry - I'm sure she'll be fine and like I say, I feel your pain and you have my full sympathy!
 
I also sympathize. I only ever own one riding horse at a time, and current one is the third to need to go off to horsepital for an MRI hoof scan, which my vet thinks is a record. The scary thing is, Flame would also have had one had they been available when her feet went wrong, so it would have been four. :o
 
OMG i nearly posted on our mare 2 weeks ago with the same thing

(as for bad luck were in our 2nd year or so it feels like -it just never seems to end --it must be in the water!!! as i think we may be near to each other from reading some of your other posts we are in the south lakes)

my old mare did the same and we still do not know what is wrong as she is still very lame but on left fore and still on boxrest

vet out the day she did this as we witnessed her bouncing like a deer and running as though she was in a race for her life in the feild and came in lame but got worse over the next few days--vet thought abcess

shoe off and a dig from farrier but no reaction from hoof testers but very strong pulse and heat and slight swelling --poulticed just in case

next nerve blocks not much difference ,scans and xrays -- showed all was fine --but still lame!!!

physio is out tuesday so who knows she might find something muscular,
still hoping it may be a very bad abcess working its way out but nothing was on xrays to say for definate
next i think will be a visit to leahurst feels as though we have lived there for the last 2 years
i hope yours is just an abcess after everything you have been through --fingers crossed for you both
 
Well my mare was much better today. I took her for a little walk in hand with the poultice on this evening and she seemed much more comfortable. I took the poultice off and there was some stuff on one side of the frog but to be honest I can't tell whether it was just muck from down the side of the frog or something had burst! It did smell a bit rank, but it wasn't gag inducing - so still not sure! Also not sure whether the fact that she had a bute last night and one again this morning may have disguised something!
She isn't happy about having to stay in, but needs must at the moment!
 
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