popsdosh
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Lameness work up tomorrow - I'm so nervous.
Good luck ! At least you will know what your dealing with. Try not to worry about the potential scenarios until you know what it is.
Lameness work up tomorrow - I'm so nervous.
Good luck ! At least you will know what your dealing with. Try not to worry about the potential scenarios until you know what it is.
As for those who ride confirmed wobblers you need your heads examined seriously riding a horse that does not know where its hind limbs are you are playing russian roulette.
I understand that, but I am trying not to let people get up false hope and then be disappointed. I'd be glad to be told that I am wrong, but I can't find anything online to suggest that this operation is available in the UK in 2015.
I would assume that if the operation was carried out 12 years ago it must still be carried out in the UK and with better results than all those years ago, such are the medical advances in technology.
I would assume that if the operation was carried out 12 years ago it must still be carried out in the UK and with better results than all those years ago, such are the medical advances in technology.
Please applecart, find me some information that the operation is available and has improved its success rates. There are many horses it would save from being put down. But until you can find that information, I think it would be kinder not to set people off on a wild goose chase trying to find a cure for their horse which isn't possible.
Sophskies, I wish you well today.
Can anyone lend me a gif of someone banging their head on a desk ?
Sophskies, good luck today.
I'm being funny with you because after repeated attempts to put you right, with information which I have made clear was given to me years after that which was given to you (and is now out of date), and with absolutely no evidence from the internet or any other source to back you up, you are continuing to give false hope to people with horses with wobblers. I think it's very unfair to do that to people who are in enough trouble as it is.
Sophskies, I wish you well today. I hope we can end this thread on wishing you well today.
Thank you xI am so sorry
I am so sorry
Thank you, sorry for your loss. Poor horse is absolutely hopping lame on front leg today. Heat in the foot and swollen fetlock but no heat in the leg. I'm hoping it's just an abcess, farrier will check tomorrow. I fear if it's anything more serious it might force my hand. Forgot to mention that vet said normally back legs affected and fronts not so much - he has it equally badly front and rear so I'm worried about him being so lame whilst being uncoordinated. So awful. Hope its nothing to do with the tests yesterday.
My horse had his front legs affected as well. At Livepool they carried out neuro tests before the xrayed confirmed the diagnosis and they put one of his feet in front of the other and he just stood there. Then they put one on top of the other and again he stood there, totally unaware of where his feet where place. Try to do that with any other horse and they move their feet immediately.
In fact Rommy was so bad that if you had tugged on his tail with any degree of force he would have gone right down.
Sophskies, sorry to sound matter of fact as I certainly don't mean to be but the farrier will need to be mindful tomorrow of the horses condition. Lifting a leg on an ataxic horse is a very dangerous activity and would be better carried out in an open area, maybe a barn or menage so that the farrier can get out of the way if necessary, a stable may prove too small a space. Maybe a couple of danillon or bute before he comes out will stabilse your boy a bit so he won't be so unsteady on his legs.
I do hope his abcess is quickly sorted and you manage to spend more precious time with him.
Thinking of you x
Rommy - 1994 - 2004
Thank you, yes I've told the farrier about his condition and he saw him outside. Unfortunately he couldn't find an abcess though. He thinks possibly mechanical laminitis. He's got 2 days of poulticing and a farrier recheck on Monday. If that doesn't help ill give him a week to improve and if he doesn't I'm afraid that will have to be it. I can't let him Hobble around in his condition. If it's something superficial it will show signs of improvement in a week. I don't know what it is though it's been ever since the tests at the vet on Tues.
No, unfortunately they said steroids wouldn't do him any good. I'm really struggling to know what to do for the best. He's still so bright in himself.