Sorry another abscess question - soreness afterwards

[Jingleballs]

My boy had his abscess dug out on Saturday by the farrier. I was advised to poultice until Tuesday and nothing else has come out - he's also now perfectly sound.

He's sound and as per farriers advice, I took him out for a walk yesterday - just a short hack and he was fine, no issues at all and keen to be out.

I left him without the poultice today - he's only turned out in the loose barn or in the surfaced paddock just to keep it dry.

I noticed tonight when I was having a proper poke about at it, that where the abscess was dug out is obviously still very sensitive - when I prod it with the hoof pick he reacts and pulls his foot away which being a stoic cob is a pretty big reaction for him.

Farrier is back on Friday to check but I just wondered if this is normal? I suppose getting a large part of your foot dug out isn't comfortable so I wonder if it is just related to this especially since he's otherwise sound and happy and nothing else has come out? Or could there still be something brewing and should I start tubbing and poulticing again?

I packed it with cotton wool and stockholm tar tonight and put the poultice boot back on but wondering if I should dry poultice or even wet poultice again just in case?

 

[Jingleballs]

Bump?

 

[HerosRomeoDeputy]

I probably wouldn't worry too much if there's no heat, he's sound otherwise and there's no gunk around; it could just be a little sensitive where the farrier has worked on him, he could be anticipating and ''ouch'' from remembering the initial pain or perhaps there's a little more still to work it's way out (I have just spent £460 on what turned out to be an abscess...it had snook up his leg and blown it up like a balloon looking like a tendon injury, it even had the vet confused as he was negative to hoof testers etc, it cleared after bursting out his heel then two days later he was lame again as there was more to come!) keep it really clean but let him move around on it and keep him off anything like bute (probably already know this sorry ) avoid the stony ground for a while and his sole will toughen up again

 

[Meowy Catkin]

that where the abscess was dug out is obviously still very sensitive - when I prod it with the hoof pick he reacts and pulls his foot away which being a stoic cob is a pretty big reaction for him.

If you had a hole dug in your sole, would it hurt if someone prodded it?

I suppose getting a large part of your foot dug out isn't comfortable

See, you know the answer. Horses do have feeling in their soles. I have found that when abscesses are dug out from the sole, that they can be sore for a while.