One fat leg - advice please

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Anyone any experience of one single fat leg when it's pair is stone cold and clean as a whisper...and it turning out to be nothing? *prays*

Horrid feeling my pride and joy has done a tendon. Does get puffy legs from time to time but its not really warm enough for that.

Seems sound and barely any heat but there is some compared to his other stone cold front leg.

Looks like I'm going to be booking in for a scan tomorrow morning. :-(
 
Can't edit on my phone but meant to say I'm looking for positive experiences of it being nothing rather than advice. I know only a scan will tell me the answer.
 
Mine went puffy on one, slightly lame, was worried it was tendon as it was fat to the knee. Barely a mark on it. Thought it was tendon, panicked. Hosed Kept in for 2 days, walks in hand to see how he went, swelling went down on exercise, filled on stabling. Think he had clonked it or exasibated his mild mudfever (white draft woosy mudfever). Put him out went loony but was puffy free and sound in a week. He only had one mark which was a little graze so put cream and cooling gel on the day leg. Don't worry straight
away could be nothing. If it doesn't seem super awful I always try to think practical first and if its not working I seek help then.
 
Thanks all.
Not a mark (that I can see) on him. He has white socks also so any blood would show easily but I have been through the hair with a fine tooth comb. Trotted him for 5 mins just to 'feel' if he was sound and he was. Swelling gone down a little and exposed what little heat there is at top of tendon/ back of the knee so naturally the swelling is going down the tendon. :-(
 
Reg's legs swell up randomly on a pretty frequent basis. It can be anything with him- flybite, knocked it slightly, rubbed it too hard, grass was marginally different to the day before... He's never lame on it, so Al's taken to cold hosing and leaving him to it. They go down after 24 hours or so.

It usually happens before a really exciting lesson for them!
 
Thanks all.
Not a mark (that I can see) on him. He has white socks also so any blood would show easily but I have been through the hair with a fine tooth comb. Trotted him for 5 mins just to 'feel' if he was sound and he was. Swelling gone down a little and exposed what little heat there is at top of tendon/ back of the knee so naturally the swelling is going down the tendon. :-(
 
Mine came in the other day with a fat hind leg but sound, cellulitis. A weekk of antibiotics and all good x
 
Mine came in with a huge fat swollen hot leg very lame pone last Friday. Emergency vet call, thought it was her check ligament. Box rest, huge bandage on it; came out today to trot up - she was very sound! Se was wild! & then scanned it to see nothing! So she's got to be gradually brought back into work & not allowed back out untill she's back in proper work as she obviously banged it in the field & we want her to be strong enough!
 
Thanks all for the positive responses. I'll see what the leg looks like in the morning before I call the vet.
Fingers crossed. It's the not knowing!!
 
My boy had one fat leg from below knee to fetlock, no lameness the vet was a bit stumped so he had it scanned - nothing !
They decided it was deep seated bruising, it did go down but took weeks ! Fingers crossed for you :)
 
Another one here that had the tiniest bit if mud fever I've ever seen, I mean it was the size of the end of a pen top hidden right up by his ergot Still his leg was all puffy and warm.
Another occasion a really really odd one, one very very puffy and hot leg. Turned out to be a virus
 
if you press on the swelling does your finger leave a mark ? .. do you get a pain reaction from the horse ? .. if you finger leaves a mark it is more likely to be some sort of infection / collection of lymph rather than a tendon, if your finger leaves no mark and you get a pain reaction I would be more worried ..
 
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