Would you push for surgery if you were me?

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charlie55

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My lad went lame last October and got diagnosed with bone spavin, vet xrayed etc and said to just work him through it and it will fuse and he wont have any further problems, this was working great and 2 months ago he went sound under saddle. Now, he has gone lame again, same leg, same lameness, definitely spavin again! The vet is due thursday afternoon and said we will now go down the injection route, thing is my insurance runs out at the beginning of october as its been nearly a year! Do i go down the injection route? Or do i push for the surgery to make the bones fuse fast? The only reason being is if the injections dont work, the next stage is surgery, by that time the insurance would have excluded that leg and i can not afford over £2500 to pay for the surgery. So what ever happens we have got to try and fix him in a month
What would you do? Im going to talk to my vet thursday and see what he thinks, i know these injections havent worked for alot of people i know, where surgery always has??..... What ya think? x
 
Having just put my mare through KS surgery after the injection route failed I would say yes. Providing that there is a reasonable chance of it being a success.

Talk to your vet obviously. I was against my mares surgery initially but vet told me today that when he opened her up, the right decision had been made as the bones were in quite a state.

I would have kicked myself if a year and a day after my insurance claim had run out my mare's only chance of a useful life was surgery. Good luck
 
Thanks for replying hun, everyone i have spoke to have said push for it, im going to keep my fingers crossed that the vet agree's with me! Would hate to have the injections, and 5 weeks time he goes lame again and there isnt anything i can do about it, such a waste of a lovely 11 year old! x
 
Before you decide, I'd get your vet to give you the statistics for success. You may find that it's nowhere near as high as you think it is. Friend of mine went down the surgery route. It made not the blindest bit of difference and her horse is still intermittently lame almost 2 years later. Another livery on the yard opted to go the Tildren route - no surgery -sound as a pound after about 9 months. Remember that whatever you decide may NOT be what your insurers want! Obviously you will need to ok it with them 1st and they may have different views on it. Good luck x
 
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