Strange amounts of lameness!!

[Horse Gifts Central]

so basically, I bought my horse on the 20th of May 2015. He came from a home where he has gotten away with a lot of things for the past 10 years so naturally when I got him, he was bolchy and rude (but never nasty of malicious).
I booked the farrier to come out to re-do his shoes thinking he's 10 he wouldn't have a problem... but unfortunately we had a bit of trouble resulting in all the shoes coming off and none going back on...
so for a week and a half he had no shoes on and did no road work. but the day before a different farrier came out to put them back on he went lame (suspected footsore) and farrier said it would go off after a couple of days. It didn't. Called vet out and she hoof tested and gave me bute for the week and said ring back if it didn't get any better. I gave him a week off to see how it got. It got better and one day he was 100% sound so all I did was walked him round a grass paddock, with slight trotting and two days later he went lame again. We hoof tested again and found he was flinching on the right fore inside. To cut a long, long story short he messed about again trying to get the shoes off and stood on the nail. not a big enough puncture to have any harm though. But within the messing about he gained heat in his leg and a little fluid pocket. But my friend pressed his shoulder today and he was flinching and moving off a lot and wasn't limping as bad after. I have rang the vet again and she has prescribed more bute and said see how it goes but was wondering if anyone else could advise on what it could be or anything to help? he's currently on box rest in a stable but gets very stressed so may have to take him out very soon but running out of ideas as he broke out of his little paddock last night! 😡

 

[be positive]

I think you need to get the vet out to examine him properly, did you get him vetted before you bought him? I suspect there is something going on that is causing him discomfort which is why he was tricky to shoe, it may be fairly long term and explain his general rudeness rather than him being allowed to become naughty through poor handling it may well be because he has been in pain for sometime and no one has really noticed.
Box rest is unlikely to be helping his attitude and depending on what the problem is may not be appropriate, it could be many things and only a thorough check by the vet will give you a diagnosis, I would not be fobbed off with more bute without further tests.

 

[Horse Gifts Central]

no stupidly I didn't get him vetted before I bought him! (stupid I know but never even thought which is even stupider!) but even when I got him he used to even refuse to pick his feet up but now he lets my hold them and bang about like a farrier so can't see why he does it with farriers and his old home got him shod for me the week before I brought him home and he was perfect! 😡 okay thankyou I just didn't want to turn him out without a poultice on

 

[be positive]

There is no reason he cannot have a poultice on out in the field you just need to put on loads of duct tape to keep it secure.

 

[Horse Gifts Central]

I know but with him being rude he just walks straight off and charges even with a chifney so I can't even get the poultice on

 

[Palindrome]

You could try hoof boots, there are an investment but worth it if you decide to keep the shoes off for a while. Old Macs G2 are fab IMO.

 

[Horse Gifts Central]

thankyou! but he now has shoes on and I'm working with my vet to sort him out☺️ I have looked at boots previous but he has a very wide hoof (wider than longer) and I struggled to find the ones that would fit correctly without rubbing...