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My horse ha his flu and tet onTuesday. Rode him tonight and felt really flat. Also coughed and seemed have a stiff neck. Has anyone else had this? Not sure if he just felt flat as warm and I had it in the back of my mind. Spoke to Vet who said very rare and to not to ride for 48 hrs. Took his temperature and 37.6.
 
Something like this happened to my young horse. He was fine 48 hours later. He's been vaccinated since without any repeat of the problem. Hope this helps.
 
Thanks He never had a problem before an as I said had it on my mind so maybe just not feeling that great. I will give a couple of days off and see. Probably be raining by then!!
 
Genie reacted in February. Temp was stupidly high (peaked at over 41 degrees). Vet told me to pump her full of danilon in the first instance and check through the night, and to call her out if she started shaking when she would need something intravenously. It was a stressful 48 hours but we got her back to normal. She competes so will be having her jab again in February, but my vet is going to order another one and we will have finadryl (I think that's what it's called!) and danilon on standby ready. My vet has been in the business for years and she said G was the second reaction she'd seen, however Genie is a bit 'special' when it comes to things like this anyway - we don't panic with her until her temperature hits 103F!
 
My friend had to have her horse injected on his bottom as his neck and chest both swell horribly and his neck goes very stiff. Even with his bottom he needs at least a week off work afterwards to recover.
He's a bit special and has to have a 1/4 dose of sedative or he keels over and takes hours to come round so he's obviously very sensitive to drugs! He was competing so had to be done but now he's retired she doesn't have him done because of the reaction.
 
My girl was once injected in the neck instead of her bum and as a result she couldn't put her head down to drink. Luckily I realised quickly and was able to raise her buckets up enough to get her through the night and she was back to normal the next morning. Whatever the OP's vet thinks, he is wrong! It is really quite common to get a reaction (friends horse who was a tough cob and not a wuss went very lame behind after his jabs). I think older animals seem to get affected more and more too (certainly old cats can be really poorly after their vaccinations) and after my girl was again clearly poorly after hers I asked the vet and he said she had a lifetime of tetanus vaccinations and not to bother any more. She wasn't going off the yard anyway by that time so was less likely to catch something too.
Personally, I think tetanus needs looking at! Its supposed to be a non-live vaccination but last time I had a booster in my arm, it went painfully rigid for 24 hours within half an hour of getting the needle. Not good when you are trying to do everything on your own!
 
Two of mine have reacted to the flu + Tetanus jabs in the past, Always give a week off after, many think I am mad as I also give a day or two off after worming as you never know how they feeling after that too.
 
I react badly to flu and tetanus jabs and so did my old boy his neck swelled up and he had difficulty drinking, eating and trying to graze so I have never had any of my horses done since.
 
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