i wish i could help you. I too have a horse with a mystery illness
and it is so upsetting and frustrating. Makes you realize some vets
really dont know any more than most of us. I have a vet group. One
is an old country livestock vet. I bet he can sew an eyelid up in
thirty seconds just neat as a pin. I watched him do a cow caesarian,
it was awesome. But he almost killed me telling me to rinse and clear
out my horse's mouth several times a day when he was foaming at the
mouth and it turned out to be rabies. I had many small cuts on my
hands and arms from picking berries and was very exposed to saliva
that way. i never trust any professional, i guess its the old hippie
"question authority" in me. One of my vets is young and savvy and
adventurous, likes a challenge, he is my favorite vet. One is so new I
feel like half the time I am telling HER what to do. one of my horses
got into the chicken feed one time and ate a 25 pound bag. its 15%
protein. I ran him to the vet and she was the only one who could meet
me. She kept hemming and hawwing and I said "arent you gonna pump his
stomach" and she said "actually they don't suggest we do that so
quckly anymore, and besides I think it is probably too late." Then
she said he was definitely foundering, had a high pulse and heat in
one foot. I said "do me a favor and just pump his stomach will you?"
and she did and I bet she pumped out about 20 lbs of green solid feed
material. I feel like I saved him, not her. I dont mean to get off
on all this, my point is vets can be as helpless as we are. If I were
you I would google things, contact people, etc. AT least my vet is
receptive to trying my suggestions. I wonder if your horse could have
strangles. I know of horses that had founder symptoms from strangles.
Janice
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even good horses have bad days sometimes.
