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| Found my very special guy that I just retired with a shoeing nail in front left. Films/dye show it pierced the joint and it is infected. He is staying at the vets but prognosis is not good. :( |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Yes. And the treatment was long. I will FB you |
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| Yep, mine was caused by a vet screwing up on injections, my horse had both coffins infected.
2 weeks till he was diagnosed (very long story initial vet refused to examine, biggest clinic in Alberta also refused to examine him)
We flushed massive amounts of salaine through the joint, thinking close to 4 gallons through each it took all day. Administered antibiotic in overnight in the joint, flushed again in 3 days, more antibiotic, then ha.
My guy came back as good as he was before the infected joints. |
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| Going through this now- infection occurs in January. He is home and has been intermittently sound. It was a long hospital stay and it was very expensive, I brought him home to put hm to sleep if he had changed for the worse. That was 60 days ago- recheck shows everything looking great, but he now has severe bruising coming out on the bottom of his sole, so not sound right now. Much better than last week, so hoping our progress continues in that direction.
I have had him on Cur-Ost Pure since discharge- the clinic was pleasantly surprised to see a sound horse at 30 days post discharge. They did not expect him to survive.
So still waiting to see if my horse will come back and be competitive, but he didn't quit and neither did I.
Many prayers. I know how very difficult this can be. |
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| Thanks for the responses, happy for you to hear that your horses pulled through. My mind was scrambled yesterday, I had a feeling this was going to be a bad deal but was not expecting it to be life or death. It is tough seeing him hurting but as long as he is showing me he wants to fight I will keep fighting for him. |
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| You need a vet that isn't afraid to get aggressive. Ours didn't have such a good outcome. $10,000 later all we had was a dead horse. He foundered in the other front foot and his coffin dropped out of the sole. That was many years ago though. |
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| SKM - 2016-03-30 6:18 AM
You need a vet that isn't afraid to get aggressive. Ours didn't have such a good outcome. $10,000 later all we had was a dead horse. He foundered in the other front foot and his coffin dropped out of the sole. That was many years ago though.
He cautioned me about him developing laminitis in the other foot, he is in a deeply bedded stall with soft rides. He also said the outcome depends on how much bacteria the nail introduced, which appears to be a lot. Sorry you lost your horse. A&M's treatment estimate was 15-20K and probably would go higher with odds less than 50%. As connected and emotionally attached to this horse as I am, I just couldn't justify spending that on a retired older gelding. My vet is hitting it with all he can and still is going to cost more than makes sense or what I should be spending on him. Stupid nail. |
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| I have nothing to offer, but prayers all turns out well for you and your boy.  |
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| Prayers for you boy, it involves large amounts of antibiotics.
We ran two types IV and did regional limb perfusion and navi half bursa injections about every three days.
We couldn't get a large enough sample to get numbers, but he is home and may return to competition soundness. |
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| Tmain - 2016-03-30 12:05 PM Prayers for you boy, it involves large amounts of antibiotics. We ran two types IV and did regional limb perfusion and navi half bursa injections about every three days. We couldn't get a large enough sample to get numbers, but he is home and may return to competition soundness.
Thank you. Vet flushed it yesterday and is doing limb profusion this afternoon. He is getting IV antibiotic but not hooked up to a line. Vet is going to inject meds into his bursa too. I went to see him this morning and he is bright eyed, eating and drinking. He is still 3 legged lame but he is no longer trying to walk on his toe and is putting a little weight on it flat footed. It may just be the drugs or the soft rides but he looks great and today I don't see the pain in his eyes. I am happy your horse is coming back to compete again, good vet work. This seems to be a tough injury to overcome. |
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| yes, they did the same as what you said your vet is doing. Perfusion, IV meds, etc. $1200 later she was good to go home. Mine might not of had as much infection as yours but they did tell me it could take several treatments, and many months. I told them I had a budget to save her(she's broodmare sound only), and they said they would do what they could within it. I got lucky! |
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Location: Texas | We have a filly who nearly took a foot off getting it stuck over a fence. Ended up with an infection in the coffin bone. Had the surgery to remove the infected piece and then she got an infection in her coffin joint. Vet said it's the worst joint to get infected. He was pretty positive about her surviving it so we went ahead and had it flushed and treated. That was last year and she just foaled this week. She will never be rideable, but she is broodmare sound and does well. Best of luck with your guy. |
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| Glad to read a positive update- continued prayers for your boy. |
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Location: Georgia | I have a gelding that a vet infected the coffin joint in one foot by injection a little over a year ago. He's still a little lame but is a fat happy pasture horse and is on no meds. It was a very long and expensive process and I don't have much hope that he will ever compete again but he seems as happy as he can be for the time being. |
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| I went to see him today and HUGH improvement, he has gone from a grade 5 lameness to about a 2 1/2. I was shocked compared to how he was yesterday. If he keeps improving like this they will start oral antibiotics Monday, reduce the bute, if he does ok will come home Wednesday. Tuesday his lactate test showed a very high infection, last test showed it is coming down. Happy happy! |
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