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Location: Kansas | wyoming barrel racer - 2014-03-25 10:14 PM Just an idea, but lots of vets take Care Credit. It's a neat little credit card (I got one years ago when I got my wisdom teeth out) and again last month when I had Lasik eye surgery. It's usually set up to be interest free if you pay it off before their due date and the payments are really reasonable. I wouldn't use it for everything, but great for bigger things. I had a gelding looked all over, did just about everything including a couple x rays and had hocks injected and his SI and it was about $400 in SD.
I have a care credit card as well. I applied when I had to have a root canal done as well......it's super handy but my root canal cost me $1,800 so the minimum payments were like $90 a month for 24 months LOL.
The interest rate did not make me happy, 24% so I ended up applying for a low interest rate here at my credit union and have since paid off that CC. I'm now using it for my horses, it definitely comes in handy when you don't have the cash on hand! |
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Location: Texas | X-ray her back to look for kissing spine. It will not show up in lameness exams. My gelding was doing weird stuff and eventually ended up goin up fence when I found his. |
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| I have probably took my horse to 5 different highly recommended vets, even had her at a university hospital for 14 days, did this and that, bone scan, soft tissue exam, lameness locator, I don't think there is anything we haven't covered on my horse..nothing has helped and I still have the same sore horse. So spending tons of money sometimes doesn't get you anywhere.
Hope you can find someone to help you figure out what's wrong. |
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Location: Lala Land | rodeomom3 - 2014-03-26 7:42 AM I will add suspensories to the list to check. My gelding had this issue. Took him to 3 really good vets who could find nothing. He eventually tore it and came out of a run 3 legged lame. He did not want to finish his left turn. Suspensory issues can be very hard to find, he never had swelling or was off even 1/2 a step. Vet said it was a progressive injury, minor tears till it finally tore 40% of it. Good luck.
I was going to say check suspensories also. I was lucky enough to have a great vet that did a thorough lameness exam and found suspensory inflamation/scar tissue before he tore anything really bad. He was refusing to finish turns to the right.... gave him time off, ice after riding, poultice after runs and he's peeling the paint off the backsides of barrels. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | wyoming barrel racer - 2014-03-25 10:14 PM Just an idea, but lots of vets take Care Credit. It's a neat little credit card (I got one years ago when I got my wisdom teeth out) and again last month when I had Lasik eye surgery. It's usually set up to be interest free if you pay it off before their due date and the payments are really reasonable. I wouldn't use it for everything, but great for bigger things. I had a gelding looked all over, did just about everything including a couple x rays and had hocks injected and his SI and it was about $400 in SD.
I agree with Care Credit. And Oak Ridge takes it. I used it to pay off a surgery with 12 months no interest. |
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| Flexion tests on all joint, coffin, ankle, knee/hock stifle. Then block, X-ray, and ultrasound. This is what a competent vet should be doing.
You have videos correct? I would also get someone to video you walking trotting loping in circles both ways big and smaller circles. This way the vet can see the horse move.
If you can ride at the vet clinic take your saddle and bridle.
I would keep riding the horse unless the horse becomes visibly lame, any swelling or heat anywhere.
Good luck it sucks looking for the non obvious.
My guess is back left hock, or right front foot as you say the horse is freezing up on the right barrel. |
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Location: Oklahoma | RoaniePonie11 - 2014-03-25 11:04 PM
I need to take notes, so pelvis, ovaries and shoulders is the off the wall things I have heard so far. I have had her feet done by a very reputable farrier who measured every part of her hoof to the T to make sure it was all correct. He said she didn't have any thrush at the time but I had also treated her feet for it about a week prior.
side note: she is sore on her back about 4" up from her hip bones right over the ovaries but that's also the point that's supposed to show hock soreness.
I had a horse that did the same, identical thing on the first barrel that yours did. Took him to the vet....vet said nothing wrong with him; whip his butt and make him do it. So next race, that's what I did and he came out 3 legged with a torn suspensory. Came to find out that it had been slightly torn when I first took him in, but when I whipped his butt and MADE him run after that, it tore completely. He was off a year, but he did come back sound. I was SOOO mad at the vet that told me nothing was wrong!!! You know she's trying to tell you something, so you are doing the right thing. I would also have that suspensory ultrasounded that you had trouble with before. It may not be completely healed. |
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Lady Di
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Location: Oklahoma | I would have them put the lameness locator on your horse. It found a lameness in a horse of mine that I had tried fixing about everything. Ended up being a hind suspensory, but didn't find it until they used the lameness locator. |
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Location: Texas | dianeguinn - 2014-03-26 11:39 AM
I would have them put the lameness locator on your horse. It found a lameness in a horse of mine that I had tried fixing about everything. Ended up being a hind suspensory, but didn't find it until they used the lameness locator.
I agree with the lameness locator. It has helped me in the past |
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | Make sure you check saddle fit. If ypur horse is being pinched turning right, a lameness exam wont catch that and it will only show up when you run a pattern. |
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| I will chime in and agree with the suspensories. My mare never quit running but I could feel she just wasn't quite right. To this day I still get mad at myself for not realizing something was 'off' sooner. But this is a mare who doesn't know the meaning of quit and she wouldn't tell me she was hurting. Long story short - torn suspensory - and she didn't tell me. I had an ultrasound done (and it was really reasonable - like $150 or so). She was out for a year and a half. I wish I had realized it sooner. Go with your gut - your horse is trying to tell you something. And good luck, keep us posted. |
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| brlraceaddict - 2014-03-26 3:00 PM
I will chime in and agree with the suspensories. My mare never quit running but I could feel she just wasn't quite right. To this day I still get mad at myself for not realizing something was 'off' sooner. But this is a mare who doesn't know the meaning of quit and she wouldn't tell me she was hurting. Long story short - torn suspensory - and she didn't tell me. I had an ultrasound done (and it was really reasonable - like $150 or so). She was out for a year and a half. I wish I had realized it sooner. Go with your gut - your horse is trying to tell you something. And good luck, keep us posted.
was it on the foreleg or the rear? |
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Ditch the Stirrups
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | Make sure you check saddle fit. If ypur horse is being pinched turning right, a lameness exam wont catch that and it will only show up when you run a pattern. |
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