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Stacie

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 27, 2006 - 3:16 pm:

I have not posted in quite some time, but I need help in trying to figure out what is going on. History, Ben has not abcessed in a very long time until 2 weeks ago he went lame and I helped him along with Bute for a few days knowing with all the rain we have had - this was happening, I was just thankful it has been so long since last time he had, then saturday morning feeding. Ben comes up to the barn and looked to me lame on front right and front left he seems to be swinging it around to move forward. Gets to his stall and is in obvious pain, all 4 feet are moving meaning shifting from 1 to the next. I thought for sure he was showing signs of founder. No heat at all in any of them. I gave him 1 gram of bute in his feed and quickly gave him 1 gram orally with apple sauce. He is a 17 hand boy about 1600 lbs, so I felt this one time with 2 grams is what he needed for his pain. He did not finish his food, which is unusual for him. So I locked he and I up in the stall to keep Dusty (or other horse) from coming in and hand fed him the rest. I was waiting to see what he did next after finishing his meal, I opened the stall, he moved very slowly to the hay and nibbled a little. Still shifting all feet to try and find a comfortable spot. I felt if I could get him to the field, very short distance and let him lay down to rest and let the bute take effect. I got him out there, pet him for awhile, cried on his shoulder and he finally got tired and layed down. I let him lay. We came back a few hours later and he seemed better. Was ok Sunday and Monday. He is a pasture horse, no riding knowing he is not 100% sound with all his prior issues. He has got a major case of ringbone and navicular, he is about 22 years old. Farrier came Tuesday morning to shoe him. He could not get Ben to lift his right front long enough to shoe him as he needs a special shoe for that foot. We gave him a mix of 1 1/2CC of Ace and 1 1/2CC of Tranqivet to try and get him comfortable enough to finish. Then noticed his left front chest was hard as a brick. Almost like a charliehorse. We stopped and decided to let him go barefoot for a week or so till he was better with whatever was going on. Called the vet, explained it, they said to give him bute for a few days and see if the muscle will relax. Check him a few times a day by asking for his right foot. He will give it - but then will almost sit back and force me to release, when looking right after at that left chest muscle, again, cramped up. What in the world?? Sorry for the long post
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DrO

Posted on Thursday, Sep 28, 2006 - 7:25 am:

Stacey it is hard to evaluate your finding of a hard chest muscle but this in combination with advancing the leg by swinging, sounds like he has had trauma to the shoulder region resulting in either pain or paralysis of the muscles around the shoulder. With such serious symptoms I would suggest you have the veterinarian examine the problem.
DrO
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