I also have a sensitive thin-walled TB (soles, not so much). The fix for him was thinner nails and no toe nails.
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Thanks for all the suggestions - I did buy Durasole so I will give that a shot, and I will talk to my farrier about smaller nails. I think he was so fixated on keeping the shoes on in the past that he may have been a bit aggressive with the nails.
I do wonder how much the thrush and chronic dampness contributed to him being extra sore this last cycle.
For anyone that has used the equipack pads - did your farrier apply them or did you?
Today he was running and romping and very happy to not be on a trailer heading to a vet again. Unrelated to his foot problems but I can’t believe how quickly his chest wound has healed.
Equipak will stay in better if your farrier applies the mesh at time of shoeing and then pours it in. But you can buy the applicator gun and product yourself and apply it right after shoeing in a clean and dry foot, and in my experience will stay in decently well without the mesh.
Well as an update: Farrier came about three weeks ago, he took more toe off per the vet’s suggestion and we put him in rubber pads with DIM. Horse was once again very lame the day after the farrier came, but this time he got better fairly quickly and was sound within 4 days and has been back in full work.
Until yesterday, when within 24 hours he managed to lose both shoes? 
Farrier can’t come until next week so he is in hoof boots for now.
He has not historically been an overreacher but he does play hard…and often…and thinks that the only possible way to get from point A to point B is at a gallop…I am going to try pull on bell boots but I am wondering if the pads potentially made the shoes more prone to coming off? If so, I will likely try him without pads because I don’t want to risk him going down this path of losing shoes again.
Here he is demonstrating one of his many moves which I could imagine might lead to lost shoes :
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