Symptoms of Kissing Spines.......?

Perfect_Pirouette said:
I know I am probably being/getting stupidly paranoid but I can't help it.

Rode orange one last night for first time since Physio/Osteo on Mon. Now to be fair it was only the first time, however he was still REALLY unhappy to have saddle on/girth tightened.

It COULD just be remembered pain from before physio came as she did find a fair bit of soreness etc. However, I am starting to look ahead and think what if it's not? She echoed what I had been thinking re ulcers so if girthiness continues I will investigate the ulcer possibility.

Someone said something to me last night that worried me about KS. They said they had a horse with it and described exactly how orange one is. They said it was only after horse got fitter and they started asking more of him (funny, exactly the same) and the first symptom was bad reaction to being tacked up/girth.

So now I am panicking and paranoid about KS. Argh. I just want to go down today and tack him up and him be normal again :(

Ridden wise last night he was A LOT better. Much more loose, swingy, relaxed and even in the contact so something must have been done right Mon. It's just this aversion to the girth now that needs to right itself.

So....for anyone that's had a horse with KS, what were the first signs? Don't worry I'm not going to self-diagnose my poor horse lol. I just want to explore every avenue of what it could be.
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I'm sorry to barge in on this thread, but I've just joined. I do need some advice. I recently sold a horse we'd had from 5 months old; sold at 7. He was left to grow up, professionally broken in at 5. Realised he was still growing so turned away for the minimum of another year; he was over this by 2-3 months when bought back, lightly into work. Decided to sell him at 7 as just didn't have time to ride him with kids and work, plus my other horse and my health, prevented me from schooling him on. He'd only done light hacking and some light schooling since being broken. He was great to hack out and really loved hacking, ears always forward and striding out. He was great for farrier (trimmed as kept barefoot), would come down lovely on the bit, was great to tack up and get on an. My friend rode him for me also and whilst in the school he'd come down onto the bit, track up beautifully and not have any problems, although only rode him whilst I was there. Thing is, due to my health, I only ever got on, off of something I'd used as a mounting block (bad legs and arthritis in bottom of back) when riding any of my horses and have been doing this for several years. Several weeks after selling him, the lady got bucked off when she went to get on him. She was badly bruised from landing on concrete yard, so she hadn't ridden him for about 6 weeks. She got the vet out to check him out and she thought he had a stifle problem. Anyway, last Monday, she said she had him x-rayed. Shes come back to me with a vets diagnosis of kissing spine and old stifle injury. What I can't get my head around is how this can be, when we have never had any indication from him at all. Last time he saw the vet was when being broken in for a lump in his mouth, (turned out to be a tooth and went away without any problem, whilst still at yard being broken. I don't understand how this can be when he's never shown any signs of it. Gutted and heart-broken is an understatement. I just wish she'd have had him vetted before she bought him. He was open to any vetting. :( x
 
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