Ouch... worried about my confidence! HHO vibes please x

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Hi all

I am so worried about my confidence now after a bad fall today (Friday).
I was riding my friends horse for her whilst she is on holiday, and today he went mental on me.
First he kept spooking, nothing major just the usual flinch and look. Had a trot round, fine, picked up canter and he went for it. Bucking, rearing then bolted. Turned him on a tight circle and he wouldn't slow down, then he bolted to the arena gate. He tried to jump it, twisted his front end and that's when I fell off.
I landed left buttock first in concrete. It has really hurt my lower back (been A&E and they say purely muscular bruising as my actual spine doesn't hurt) I have a massive bruise on my bum cheek, and generally hurt all over!

Obviously I didn't get back on, and I always try to if I ever fall off.
I am now sitting here in bed, worrying about what if I can't get back on a horse!? What if my confidence goes rock bottom?

I'm not an overly confident person any way and I can't stop thinking about what happened!

Please slap me and tell me to pull myself together, needing a few HHO vibes xx
 
Sorry to hear you had a bad fall, you'll need someone else to tell you to pull yourself together as I'm a nervous nellie myself but I would be wondering why it happened. Could he be in pain? I wouldn't consider riding him again until he's had his back etc checked.
Be prepared for a fair bit of pain in a week or two, the muscle is damaged and sometimes it can take a while with such a strong muscle for it to become apparent, if you can find a good osteopath it should help a lot.
 
Luckily I already see an osteopath as I already have a bad back!! I actually have an appointment next week with him, and I cannot wait! He will probably tell me off!! :)
I think what caused it was too much feed! His rider went away a week ago and the plan was I would ride every other day and the days I don't he goes in the horse walker. I have ridden him once since she left and then the snow came!
I should have said something, but as he is not my horse, I didn't feel I could! I wish I had now!

I am not riding him, don't worry. Lunging, lunging and more lunging for him, with a few more sessions in the horse walker for good measure!!

His owner is now going to cut his feed down (thank goodness!) and we'll take it from there!
 
Bless you I really feel for you. I can't really help as my confidence is dodgy to say the least but I do know with my recent scare I did make myself get back on fairly quickly because the danger is it becomes a bigger issue in your head if you have too much time to think about it. I'm sure it won't be easy with your particular injury but try and get back on a sensible horse even if it's just for a walk round as soon as possible. Healing vibes on their way over x
 
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