Cloud9
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Hi - am hoping someone might be me some advice.
Arrived at yard on Easter Monday and horse was holding near hind off floor - immediately assumed lame however on investigation his sheath was absolutely huge, rock hard and boiling hot. Called emergency vet who came out and sedated him for a thorough check. His willy was clean and no "bean". But he had a very large lump and the swelling was going into his hind leg. He injectected him with various things and prescribed x2 bute a day and antibiotics for a week.
He came back out last wednesday and the sheath swelling was right down and back to normal however he still had the lump however this was much reduced (from mango to egg!!). He said had he not been gelded he almost certainly would have questioned whether he had been gelded properly. He scanned him (good boy stood like a statue with no fuss). He said the lump is fluid filled and tracks back along a tube. He prescribed a further course of antibiotics (baytril) and is coming back on Monday.
However he said the prognosis is that this is a long job and is not going to just go away with this course of action (almost certainly come back whether it be in 6 months of 6 years) and that an operation is the most likely outcome which will obviously need to be done in the next 12 months so I can claim. Full anaesthetic at the surgery.
Anyone experience this sort of thing. Tonight the swelling is still there however again a little more reduced. The thought of surgery scares me to death.
Arrived at yard on Easter Monday and horse was holding near hind off floor - immediately assumed lame however on investigation his sheath was absolutely huge, rock hard and boiling hot. Called emergency vet who came out and sedated him for a thorough check. His willy was clean and no "bean". But he had a very large lump and the swelling was going into his hind leg. He injectected him with various things and prescribed x2 bute a day and antibiotics for a week.
He came back out last wednesday and the sheath swelling was right down and back to normal however he still had the lump however this was much reduced (from mango to egg!!). He said had he not been gelded he almost certainly would have questioned whether he had been gelded properly. He scanned him (good boy stood like a statue with no fuss). He said the lump is fluid filled and tracks back along a tube. He prescribed a further course of antibiotics (baytril) and is coming back on Monday.
However he said the prognosis is that this is a long job and is not going to just go away with this course of action (almost certainly come back whether it be in 6 months of 6 years) and that an operation is the most likely outcome which will obviously need to be done in the next 12 months so I can claim. Full anaesthetic at the surgery.
Anyone experience this sort of thing. Tonight the swelling is still there however again a little more reduced. The thought of surgery scares me to death.