Lost My Nerve

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Flibble

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Wel I dont know where I have put it but I have lost my bottle completely.
In the past I have fallen off more times than I care to remember and got back on (even completed a round slightly concussed) and so how have I lost my nerve.... walking.
The vet has said I could increase the dose of his bromide and we did that yesterday and to be fair to the boy I rode a zombie today but even when his walk pace increased my heart jolted. A friend cantered her horse and I quaked. Small children came rushing down the passage next to the school and I held my breathe,the tractor started up and I nearly fainted. The horse he was fine he ambled around in mind-blowingly boring circles for half an hour and then hoorah my timer went off in my pocket and I got off with a sense of relief.
I am so fed up its not true!

Do you think it is because I have no control because if he's naughty I cant smack his bottom and canter him on a circle or do some difficult trot work he has to walk or he wont get better.
 
Thought I would add to this as another post says Garlic makes some horses spooky. Since my horse has been out of work I have been giving him chaff,Garlic granules,soya oil and cider vinegar. He has never been spooky before and I put it down to the lay-off is there a chance it could be his mini snack he only gets fed about 10 pont nuts a day with chaff so we can get his joint supplement in him. I gice hime the garlic etc at teatime so he doesnt have to watch everyone else get fed.
 
He's been off work since August with Suspensory Ligament strain Right fore he has had 2 months box rest,weeks of walking in hand weeks of walk riddden then a set back beacuse he started trot and went lame (mostly due to naughtiness I fear) another four weeks of walking in hand and has now had 10 days walk ridden. He is on Bromide this time so we have upped the dose for 24 hours.
He is normally a very good boy.
Maybe I need his Bromide. In his previous bout of Walk Ridden he Bucked me of Big time with a massive shy and double buck spin sort of. I hit the ground like a sack of spuds this was in December.
 
Don't worry - you'll get it back. How much longer do you have to walk for? When you start to be able to trot again yor confidence should start to come back - don't dwell on it too much. Could you go and have some lessons at a riding school or something so you keep riding? Some lunge lessons would help your confidence because they deepen your seat and give you a more secure position.

It's tough bringing them back into work but you'll get there
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I am as the Americans say between a Rock and a Hard place as I was made redundant in October and am trying to start a new life so every penny counts but to be honest if I had been working full time I could not have coped.
My non-horsey partner says book a few lessons so perhaps I will spend the money I made on selling my greenhouse on a few lessons.
(My seat was deep buried in the school sand perhaps it needed to be in the saddle.)
 
I really feel for you. It's hard when they've been off work for a while. Is he turned out now so he can loose some of that pent up energy? Do you think the bromide's working? Could the vet not perscribe sedaline? I'm not sure how often you could use this though.?
 
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