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| I have a yearling struggling with what we think is wobblers. Anyone have any success stories of surgery? Treatments? Anything, even if its not a happy outcome. |
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| I put down a 2 yo due to this. The only option was a basket surgery which was going to run around 12-15,000 dollars. It was not a "for sure" fix. He was a gelding and I live where it's cold, snowy, and icey. I just felt it would be too dangerous and unfair as his condition worsened. I wish I could tell you something better :( |
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| No that's fine. I'm in ND so I get you. That's why I'm wondering about possible surgeries and all that. Who were you looking at to do the surgery?
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Location: Vinton, La. | I went through it wiith a two year old two years ago. Not a good outcome. I checked into the surgery but it was very expensive and no guarantee how long it would last before she would need surgery again. It was heartbreaking to watch a young, strong, beautiful filly that was once full of life with a promising race career struggle just to walk 50 feet. It progressed very very rapidly. I put her down. |
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| The clinic was going to fly a surgeon in from the west coast since not many do the surgery. As hard as it is it's better to let them go now. I still think about my guy but I know I did the right thing. |
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| I put one down as a weanling from it... from what I saw, the surgery wasnt a very high odds fix and the other option was to basically starve him to stop him from growing. One of the hardest decisions we ever made. Put him down in October before the snow flew... I miss him every day.
However, a friend of mine had one and she is in her teens now. She was kept in a small paddock and never used but they didnt put her down.
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| Had one with injury related wobblers and one with growth related wobblers. Neither had a happy ending. I nursed Sidekick for 3 years until he finally got to the point he couldn't go on. He was the injury wobbler. It was a total of 5 years when it happened to when he had to be put down. He'd have good days and bad days. The bad days got to be more severe until he went down and couldn't get back up. He was in a lot of pain. You could tell he was confused on why his legs weren't working like they should. It was heartbreaking to watch and I wouldn't wish my experience on anyone.
The growth one cratered fast. 3 months from the first sign to putting him down. |
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Location: West Texas | Its not a good deal and we have had to deal with it on a couple of super nice ones. Sorry.
Stall rest them and give dex per your vet's recommendation. If they don't heal up pretty good in a month or two. My opinion is that it probably wont and likely just postponing the inevitable.
Edited by Tdove 2015-11-25 8:59 AM
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| Years ago, we put an old calf horse down that hubby had bought to learn to rope on. Looking back, I wonder now if we were actually dealing with EPM. Have you or your vet considered this or do you have reason and evidence (such as xrays, MRI or accident? Just a thought. |
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Location: KS | I would check to be for sure that its wobbler, EPM does have some similar symptons. Vet can run blood work to know for sure. Im not familiar with treating one with wobbler thank goodness, sorry for all those that have had too. I have dealt with EPM and though it takes time, some come back around. |
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Location: utah ,close to las vegas my real home | They are graded by how bad they are some can jump and show still ,some can't trot how bad is yours.my filly 5 yrs old that I sold to a friend was a very low grade but can still barrel race and after a year no worse |
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