NEEDING LOTS OF POSITIVE VIBES

Anastasia

Anastasia

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Please please send your positive vibes, have a very poorly mare today and really worried about her. Have vet coming out soon, but fearing the worst!
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Mare was perfectly happy last night, today............not eating, drinking and looking very depressed. Hardly passed any poo..........has been like this for three hours.

The mare was given her first EHV jab on Thursday and vet wonders if it is a reaction, but I KNOW that this is more than an adverse reaction.
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I am just very very worried..............just looks very ill and vet cannot guarantee what time she will be.................
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Needing as much positive vibes this morning..................sitting here in tears with worry waiting for vet..............
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vibes on their way, our vet is currently outside with CCj and William, who has developed a swollen leg.. not looking good so he is draining some fluid off and has done X rays..
Why do we have horses eh? It must be easier to go and throw the money in the wind and see it blow away..
I do hope we both have a good result.
I did notice our horses were off colour a few times after those jabs, and we stopped having any more as we don't send them to that place now.
 
My mare sounds exactly like yours. Mine is a greedy girl and she was right off her food, same with not much poo, looking really depressed with head hanging.
Thought she may have just been a bit off it, got vet out when 24 hours later she was no better. She was eating a bit but not usual amount.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, she kept showing colic symptoms and then would show viral type symptoms with a cough and a bit of a runny nose but vet still baffled. He had got her on antibiotics and she had had lots of Finadyne jabs as one hour looked like colic and next virus?? He was going to take bloods if she didnt improve by next day but she picked up and about 2 weeks later from her first signs she was back to her usual self. Vet hadn't a clue and said he never would unless he had taken bloods but didnt feel it was necessary unless she worsened. My other horse never showed any signs of it at all so ???
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Lets hope yours is fine too, dont worry, these things happen.
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I am so sorry to hear this Caroline & I do hope the mare is improving. Just wanted to let you know that years ago we started to use the same vaccine on all the competition ponies/horses. Fraid to say we had the same symptoms with 2 or 3 of them. One of the 138 ponies was actually quite 'off' for 6 months, very lethargic & spent most of his time lying down resting. Heard of several others with a similiar reaction too. So heres hoping. Sending BIG HUGS to you all. & Earlier (before I read this) I 'e' mailed you a piccy which will hopefully cheer you up a bit.
Take care & keep us all updated.
 
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

OK........update.........................

Vet came out and we took her outside and she is very stiff through her left side of her neck. She allowed the vet to pat her on the her off side, but on her near side she just about went ballistic when she tried to touch the neck.

This morning she was very very depressed looking and tonight she is a bit brighter. She managed to eat some feed and I went out to check her just now and she is munching on some haylege that I have put in a haynet for her. I have also put her water bucket much higher.

She struggles just now to put her neck down and her eating is very slow. The vet is sure that it is all a reaction to the vaccination we gave her because I really felt it was worse case scenario with her.

Thank you all so much today, I really was in panic mode this morning, does not help that I have had a horrible week, but that is another story.

Will keep you all posted and thanks again for your support, you wont know how much it helped me through today............xxx

Freshman, thank you SO MUCH for the picture you sent, cheered me up no ends!xx
 
Magic thanks..................I will try not to post any more bad news. I honestly thought it was the horrible two words "GS"..............and got this into my head all morning, but the vet says she is almost sure that it is not that and just a bad reaction to the vaccination.

Her temp was raised a degree as well but the vet thinks it is all to do with the vaccination.

If this is the case then I am not sure what to do now with other vaccinations, but will cross those bridges as/when we get to them.

I cannot believe how a horse can go to bubbly and happy one day and very very depressed and looked like she has almost given up...........it was so horrible to see.......
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.............I just burst into tears watching her.............
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But thank you all again so much, I was at a mind as to whether to post on here or not (especially as I have not been around for a week or so), but KNEW that you guys would give so much support...............and you have...........its just been immense and again meant a lot to me.

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GS = Grass sickness
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Good to hear this news. It definitely sounds like it's the vaccination that has caused it.
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Fingers crossed she brightens up some more:)
 
Feel free to post you silly woman. That is what we are here for to support each other, we cant do that if we dont know someone is having problems. You would do the same for anyone else. It just seems that you are having more then your fair share. Have a good cry it helps to release all the pent up frustration of feeling helpless. I may be calling the vet in myself as my mare has gone from looking so well to being a bit ribby (bloated looking, but she has been wormed). I am tryng not to worry, but as you know difficult at times.
 
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