Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??

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Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!?? Moderators: luluwhit, gotothewhip, cindyt, crossspur, ForumAdmin Jump to page :	Last activity 2015-06-10 6:20 PM 46 replies, 9803 views View previous thread :: View next thread
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ThreeCorners Reg. Nov 2003	Posted 2015-06-07 10:02 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
Tried and True Posts: 21185 Location: Where I am happiest	Years ago we went through the same thing. Horse acted exactly the same. Turns out the horse had Hepititus! Appearantly they can get it as a reaction from certain vaccines and even wormers.
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KCT82 Reg. Mar 2012	Posted 2015-06-07 10:23 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
Veteran Posts: 270	Sorry I've been gone a few days! It's been a busy weekend! Glad to say that he will probably get to leave the clinic tomorrow...yay for him and our bank account! I don't even want to know how much this bill is going to be!! Thank you for all of the prayers and suggestions! By the way, she did make mention of hepatitis, I had forgot about that...maybe it was the vacc's but he's never had a reaction before and he got the same ones he always gets. Anyhow....very strange, just glad he's doing better!
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cwgrl777 Reg. Dec 2013	Posted 2015-06-07 10:52 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
Veteran Posts: 148	So glad to here he's doing better
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cwgrl777 Reg. Dec 2013	Posted 2015-06-07 11:07 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
Veteran Posts: 148	cwgrl777 - 2015-06-07 10:52 PMSo glad to here he's doing better What vacs do u give ur horse . Find out who your vet get their vacs from and if they have changed. since last year. Edited by cwgrl777 2015-06-07 11:10 PM
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BARRELHORSE USA Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2015-06-09 12:50 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
	I think you just got took by a cat and dog vet that was in dire desperation to come up with something rare like the university vets do ... IMO it was a simple situation ... anytime you take in a new horse or take your horse to a new place especially yours that had been in seclusion away from other horses for a while. Always expect your horse or the other horses to come down sick with a new type of virus they have never encountered before ... The only thing you can do for a virus is give a mild wide range antibiotic to assist horses own immune system so it can use all of its power to attack the virus. To fight the virus and penetrate the virus' protein shell, the horse must run a fever for his bodies defense system to destroy it. On vaccines .. the diseases in TRIPLE EFT vaccine are the only ones that can give a horse immunity to these 5 diseases ....... all of the other vaccines for various diseases do NOT grant any immunity and the shock and stress can actually give your horse one of these diseases from the vaccine or lower his immunity allowing some other virus to attack the horse. Looking at the time interval ... looks like horse healed up from getting stabbed by the tubing given by an amateur vet... you are lucky vet did not run it down into his lungs and really create some permanent damage!! When it comes to horses or humans catching a virus .... time is your best friend and as long as they are eating at least half of what they normally do ... things usually turn out fine in 7-10 days .... there is no antibiotic made to attack any type of virus!! Looks like your pocketbook has done the most suffering in this unfortunate episode ... I always think along these lines when dealing with doctors, lawyers or vets.... "50% of them graduated in the lower half of their class" With the vet fees you could have built you a fence on your new place... GOOD LUCK AND HOPING ALL IS WELL ..
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Arena Rat Reg. May 2004	Posted 2015-06-09 2:48 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
Extreme Veteran Posts: 482 Location: Texas, and loving it	I didn't read all the replies but we had a mare do this same thing. She had hepititis. We were waiting on the insurance company to ok putting her down. We had her blood tested several times over a two week period. It finally showed up, were told that can happen sometimes. Treated her, took awhile before she gained all the weight back, but she was as strong as ever.
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Cowgirl Kat Reg. Aug 2013	Posted 2015-06-10 6:20 PM Subject: RE: Even vets are puzzled! Please help!!! Anybody experienced anything like this!!??
Elite Veteran Posts: 999 Location: Sunny So Cal	Glad he is doing better but still praying for you.
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