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Location: Texas | GoMistyGo - 2014-09-25 8:20 AM
bigblackhorse1 - 2014-09-24 10:42 PM I too have a horse with kissing spine. I ran him a year and a half with no problem . Than just out of the blue he developed an ally issue. Did a whole process of elimination. X rays showed ks. I can get the surgery done but im also afraid he will have it in his mind and still give me a problem. What is anyone's experience with their attitude after surgery?
I'm interested in that too.... Dr Honnas suggested to start with injections and see if that makes a difference.... if it does then he would recommend surgery....
When I first brought him back from surgery I was very nervous about the mental aspect of both of our game. He worked fine sometimes and others he would have issues. I think part of it was he worried when he felt me tense up. I just switched him to the left and he is working like a DREAM. I could probably change him back right now if I wanted to but I am happy with how things are now so why mess with it. I know he is not hurting and it is evident he is happy so I am just going to leave it alone. |
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| Thanks Kgirl .. All I really know about kissing spine. It's a 50 Percent chance The surgery will work .... Now that's just what I've heard .. And just wondering if That is a trait from the stud.... Hmmmm |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Cost depends on your vet.... I have paid $400 for a set of back x-rays.... Spoke to Dr. Honnas who is one of the experts for KS... he charges a lot less for x-rays and told me that injections at his clinic would run about $200.
So even it is a long drive for me I think I will take my mare there, as well as the idiot mare to find out if she has KS too.... That would just be my luck to have two horses with it. |
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| I spent thousands on symptoms. Mine was compensating in every which way to work, work, work and coming up sore in SI, hocks, stifles. I finally took him to A&M and did a bone scan. Nothing. Natta. Not one little thing. Last ditch effort, took spinal xrays (costing $250, ha ha, jokes on me) and there. it. was. Took the case over to Dr Honnas, the genius. One of the top 3 worst cases he'd ever seen. Lucky us. This horse never had gate issues, never did anything but go in and run his big red heart out. He was running top 2D times against national competition, then started to slow up, he literally couldn't turn first. He wanted to, he was trying, but he just physiologically and painfully couldn't turn it.
He came back just great. I've given him a year off turned out on the mountain at home to run up and down hills, highstep through sage brush, cross creeks, ditches, run through timber, all the wild brumbie stuff he wants and get his muscle tone back, as the surgery was extensive compared to what other horses get. When I was home in July, I did a quick check of all the things he had stopped doing, like doing stifle stretches. He literally would hurt you trying to get his leg back under him, since the stretch was pulling his back. He now does beautiful stretches, and has absolutely no reaction when you pressure his back, flex him, anything. He feels awesome. I'm hoping to get him back to work sometime next summer and give it whirl, but I'm 100% betting he comes back to the pattern perfectly.
Can't wait. |
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| Also,my horse developed ulcers during this time. He compesats his back pain and is alittle hock sore. Ive put alot of $ into him him as well. Ive not been competing or enjoying myself. Love this horse, super talent,super looks,disposition. ..but im kind of at the point of maybe selling him cheap and starting over. Its heartbreaking. |
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| I've been told by 2 vets now that the spot on the back of a gelding I bought may be KS. He has a large bump on the lumbar vertebreas. When hes stressed out or in pain it gets bigger. When hes feeling ok its smaller but still there. I havent rode him in almost 2 months since he chipped his cannon bone. But other than xrays, how would it be diagnosed? The poor guy came to me in January. I felt bad and bought him. He was so body sore it was unbelievable! Ive been gaining his trust and he is doing so much better but that spot worries me.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | I would just go to a vet that had a good digital x-ray machine and see whats there. If your vet suspects an issue he can e-mail the results to Dr. Honnas and you can go from there. |
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