What is wrong with my mare?!

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I have been having some problems with my mare (she is normally a nutter!) but about a month ago she suddenly started to become lethargic with heavy breathing, gave her a week off she was fine, worked lightly for a week then she dropped off again, another week off, then was lame on RH with swelling on both, vet came out gave bute and anti b's for a week and said to keep riding, suggested it was a virus. She was sound for a week after coming off drugs and when i got on her today discovered she is now lame in front with no abvious signs as to why (i.e not cuts, swelling etc)

Anybody elso experienced this before?
 
She may be lethargic, with heavy breathing due to the pain from the lameness, but saying that My TB had similar symptoms but the breathing was due to SPAOD and the lameness was due to an abcess, unrelated but just happened around the same time.
 
has she been lethargic ever since? or did she go back to her normal self completely? I would think (without having seen her) that the front and hindlimb lamenesses are unrelated as is the possible virus. If she is very lame in front and quite acutely so, then abcess is the most likely (in the absence of wounds or any swellings). Has she got a digital pulse? Is she walking on her toe, reluctant to put her heel down? Non weight bearing?
 
She does pick up for a few days (but not to complete normal self) She is not majorly lame in front, I would prob say more stiff, she is quite shuffly in the trot whereas normally she is a very big mover, she wouldn't even try canter. No digital pulse, and weight bearing on both.
 
My horse is similar re lameness at the moment. More stiff/ footy than just lame though. I've got the farrier coming out today to check for abscesses and also any changes in his shoe that could've put him off of normal due to all the wet / mud

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She couldn't have eaten something toxic could she? My mare managed to find and chew some woody nightshade hidden under some nettles she was eating; her symptoms were lethargy and fast respiration. Blood tests confirmed she had been poisoned. Thankfully she seems to be improving slowly.
 
All my friends horse have suffered a really weird virus, which has made them behave similar to what you describe, Even made the quiet ones naughty and the naughty ones quiet. It seems to hang around forever in their systems too. Vet found it on blood tests when she insisted he do something. I would feed aloe vera juice and see what happens
 
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