TheBigIrishGrey
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Anyone tried NO BUTE or ZERO BUTE? Or similar? I’m currently using science supplements Flexability professional which has really helped but my mare still has some lameness. We’ve had all tests done by vet, box rested for months but she became worse from this and other legs became swollen, we tried box rest with hand walks after that but didn’t improve only made it worse and her more stiff (she is much better with more riding) remedial farriery by an AMAZING farrier and a fabulous new physio all who tell me she isn’t in pain and that when she warms up she is absolutely sound and that some horses they treat are just like that especially in winter but I want to try anything I can find to help her. I’ve bought equi streamz magnets to see if they help, I’ve got an arc equine to use regularly to try (when magnets aren’t on as I’m worried they’ll interact and zap her!) and I’m now wondering about what to feed her to help. She’s a 13 (rising 14 in January) Irish draught mare who is my only horse and my world. Xrays and nerve blocks show it’s flat feet and she now has good angles but each time we swap from the heart bar shoes down to the X bars to try and get rid of the bar height she goes worse so we are back in heart bars which is apparently fine for life but I’d like to just see what I can do to help her as she ages and in winter as well. The flat feet angle had put pressure on her navicular bone but wasn’t navicular if that makes sense.
Everyone tells me to keep riding her and that we are doing amazingly. We are both partially sighted (blind in right and partially in left) and she has cancer (melanomas) internally and externally. I’ve been paying with my own money not insurance to get every single thing I can done to help her. Chemo, laser surgery, tooth removed when i found sensitivity clipping her chin, you name it. She has to go back for a filling.
I found her at a riding school and they called her the scary horse, I was about to take my life and decided one thing that would stop me doing it would be to have horses in my life as I had always grown up riding but had been bedbound for a decade due to my disabilities and grown crippling anxiety with it. She was known as the scary horse and she was so unhappy, bolting and spinning you name it. When I rode her it felt like we connected, someone had basically sold her to the riding school after losing confidence with her, falling off on a pub ride. I asked to buy her and the rest is history. I hope I’ve turned her life around, moving her from that place physically and emotionally I pray!
I just want any advice on ways to improve her chances of being more comfortable if possible. I’m looking for a second horse to buy that is similar to her but not ever replace her to take the pressure off her but I will never ever replace her, she is the worlds best unicorn! Literally is the safest horse for me as a para rider, but for now I just want to know anyone’s advice on things that might work to help her feel more comfortable. I’m nervous about Bute because it must do something bad being so strong? And people say she’s not in pain, they say she’d have me off if she was but my anxious OCD mind is telling me if she’s lame at all she is in pain. Anyway, I’d REALLY appreciate some kind advice please. She’s on turmeric already which I know will be a suggestion and spillers happy hoof and as mentioned science supplements Flexability professional as it had the most of everything in it.
She’s doing some lovely work at the moment but I don’t and can’t do tight circles and it’s in a large school 20x60, only ever lame in trot. She did really well under side saddle surprisingly!!! Lunge work brings it out the most. Right foot on left rein which is an odd one!
Sorry for long rant and thank you for any advice. She is like my child, I won’t have children because I won’t pass on my disabilities any risk of that, so she really is all I have. Thank you so very much in advance, any ideas welcomed and WILL be followed up with. I would do anything for her xxx
Everyone tells me to keep riding her and that we are doing amazingly. We are both partially sighted (blind in right and partially in left) and she has cancer (melanomas) internally and externally. I’ve been paying with my own money not insurance to get every single thing I can done to help her. Chemo, laser surgery, tooth removed when i found sensitivity clipping her chin, you name it. She has to go back for a filling.
I found her at a riding school and they called her the scary horse, I was about to take my life and decided one thing that would stop me doing it would be to have horses in my life as I had always grown up riding but had been bedbound for a decade due to my disabilities and grown crippling anxiety with it. She was known as the scary horse and she was so unhappy, bolting and spinning you name it. When I rode her it felt like we connected, someone had basically sold her to the riding school after losing confidence with her, falling off on a pub ride. I asked to buy her and the rest is history. I hope I’ve turned her life around, moving her from that place physically and emotionally I pray!
I just want any advice on ways to improve her chances of being more comfortable if possible. I’m looking for a second horse to buy that is similar to her but not ever replace her to take the pressure off her but I will never ever replace her, she is the worlds best unicorn! Literally is the safest horse for me as a para rider, but for now I just want to know anyone’s advice on things that might work to help her feel more comfortable. I’m nervous about Bute because it must do something bad being so strong? And people say she’s not in pain, they say she’d have me off if she was but my anxious OCD mind is telling me if she’s lame at all she is in pain. Anyway, I’d REALLY appreciate some kind advice please. She’s on turmeric already which I know will be a suggestion and spillers happy hoof and as mentioned science supplements Flexability professional as it had the most of everything in it.
She’s doing some lovely work at the moment but I don’t and can’t do tight circles and it’s in a large school 20x60, only ever lame in trot. She did really well under side saddle surprisingly!!! Lunge work brings it out the most. Right foot on left rein which is an odd one!
Sorry for long rant and thank you for any advice. She is like my child, I won’t have children because I won’t pass on my disabilities any risk of that, so she really is all I have. Thank you so very much in advance, any ideas welcomed and WILL be followed up with. I would do anything for her xxx