Booga22
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Hey, I am after some ideas/advice please?
To try and cut a long story short, took mad pony out for jolly on Friday. Disn't feel 100% but not lame & still pulling like a train in every field. Was sweating a lot more than usual, and blowing hard despite being very fit atm. Last canter, in a field shere she always takes off @ 100mph, she made it half way up hill & stopped suddenly. No trot or walk, just canter to halt - which, in a pony who would gallop through a brick wall rather than lose a 'race', this really wasn't right.
So, walked her home, washed her off & turned out whilst waiting for vet to call back. Prior to this, she has been becomming progressively more unhappy & angry about her rugs coming off/on, and having her girth done up, and also her muscles are tight/senstive and she craves you rubbing them. She also has days when she looks so depressed, or really p*ssed off about the world. Coat growing back v fast each time clipped. Over heated with 1/4 sheet on t'other day and it wasn't a warm day. Has been diagnosed as having PSD in hinds, but vets aren't that pessimistic about it and said to be careful, not over do it etc.... She does however shift her weight between hinds when resting and although I thought it was related to the PSD, beginning to think muscles higher up are also involved.
Vet is considering ulcers, but wants to blood test for viral (as also can suddenly drift off, become distant and glands come up) and muscle damage this afternoon.
On his advice, rode her on Saturday in school. Walk was fine, tad stiff in trot on right rein (nothinbg uncommon really), canter right was ok (only warm up canter at the time), but when I asked for canter left, the poor girl simply couldn't strike off/maintain.
Cooled her down throughly and brought her in. Let her stand for 10 mins and then went to turn her out, when all she could do was shuffle rather than walk. Checked legs, no obvious heat/swelling, feet are stone cold (is IR/EMS and on Metformin). Gave her the option as to what she wanted to do, and she insisted on going out to field, whereby she gradually lengthened her stride but no real march like she usually has. Checked her bit later and seemed ok, but since, she has been very stiff and taking her time to come in from/go out to field or simply across the yard, and looks so unhappy.
Could it b related to Cushings - making her IR the secondary condition hence why her last set of bloods showed her insulin to be just as high as before, or something like EPSM possibly? I know I am throwing ideas out there, but she is incredibly unhappy and all the above is completely out of character for her so I is very worried.
Any ideas/advice/suppory greatly appreciated?!
To try and cut a long story short, took mad pony out for jolly on Friday. Disn't feel 100% but not lame & still pulling like a train in every field. Was sweating a lot more than usual, and blowing hard despite being very fit atm. Last canter, in a field shere she always takes off @ 100mph, she made it half way up hill & stopped suddenly. No trot or walk, just canter to halt - which, in a pony who would gallop through a brick wall rather than lose a 'race', this really wasn't right.
So, walked her home, washed her off & turned out whilst waiting for vet to call back. Prior to this, she has been becomming progressively more unhappy & angry about her rugs coming off/on, and having her girth done up, and also her muscles are tight/senstive and she craves you rubbing them. She also has days when she looks so depressed, or really p*ssed off about the world. Coat growing back v fast each time clipped. Over heated with 1/4 sheet on t'other day and it wasn't a warm day. Has been diagnosed as having PSD in hinds, but vets aren't that pessimistic about it and said to be careful, not over do it etc.... She does however shift her weight between hinds when resting and although I thought it was related to the PSD, beginning to think muscles higher up are also involved.
Vet is considering ulcers, but wants to blood test for viral (as also can suddenly drift off, become distant and glands come up) and muscle damage this afternoon.
On his advice, rode her on Saturday in school. Walk was fine, tad stiff in trot on right rein (nothinbg uncommon really), canter right was ok (only warm up canter at the time), but when I asked for canter left, the poor girl simply couldn't strike off/maintain.
Cooled her down throughly and brought her in. Let her stand for 10 mins and then went to turn her out, when all she could do was shuffle rather than walk. Checked legs, no obvious heat/swelling, feet are stone cold (is IR/EMS and on Metformin). Gave her the option as to what she wanted to do, and she insisted on going out to field, whereby she gradually lengthened her stride but no real march like she usually has. Checked her bit later and seemed ok, but since, she has been very stiff and taking her time to come in from/go out to field or simply across the yard, and looks so unhappy.
Could it b related to Cushings - making her IR the secondary condition hence why her last set of bloods showed her insulin to be just as high as before, or something like EPSM possibly? I know I am throwing ideas out there, but she is incredibly unhappy and all the above is completely out of character for her so I is very worried.
Any ideas/advice/suppory greatly appreciated?!