This is not The Haters Club You're Looking For discussion
Trying to fix it and making it worse!
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I feel your pain. I broke my elbow a couple years ago at Skate World and messed up my shoulder and neck in the process. I treated the elbow but never went to pt for the other stuff. It's just gotten worse and worse over time. Now I go to a chiropractor and skip out at my home stretching exercises and have headaches.
It makes me feel old and creaky.
It makes me feel old and creaky.
Harry, I had something similar. I dealt with it for a year before the wife talked me into going to the doctor. I got the runaround and was eventually sent to a chiropractor. It resulted that the shoulder was out of the socket and after one visit I had almost full range of motion and very little pain. It's embarrassing of course, because chiros aren't even real doctors, but it worked. You're lucky that you got the vicodin. I was prescribed percocet which gave me nightmares and/or incredibly erotic dreams, or incredibly erotic nightmares. But, I digress.........
ha-ha!Welcome to old age, otherwise known as the Hateful years.
I have two sets of movements that I'm OK with, walking and eating my pap with spoon.
Anything else requires careful consideration of which way my body will still move without causing too much pain.
I haven't had any luck with quackopractors, but I'd see one, or better yet a physical therapist before surgery.
Montambeau, I'm with you on the stretching. If I don't do my suite of ridiculous stretches ( ridiculous because I have to stretch shit like my neck and calves) then I'm the Tin Woodsman and have to creak over ever so slowly to pick up papers on the desk
The good thing about pain receptors is- if you just man up long enough the nerve endings deaden and then it doesn't bother you anymore.
Also, I find that drinking beer and rubbing dirt on hurts works well too.
Specialist gave me a shot of cortisone and told me to give it two weeks. If the shot helps a little, then physical therapy. If not, MRI to see WTF is going on in there. Why not do the MRI now just to check it out and remove any doubt?? I hate going to the doctor.
Because MRIs are expensive. Let you suffer a couple more weeks and the procedure could be avoided all together.
I hope cortizone helps. It's always been a friend of mine.
I hope cortizone helps. It's always been a friend of mine.
Oddrun wrote: "i once saw an old woman who got really, really much cortizone because she haf a weird kind of alzheimer. When we tried to lift her leg, the skin peeled off like thin paper. Yuk."Holy shit.
Harry wrote: "Specialist gave me a shot of cortisone and told me to give it two weeks. If the shot helps a little, then physical therapy. If not, MRI to see WTF is going on in there. Why not do the MRI now jus..."Thats sucks. My husband had a herniated disk in his lower back and had to get Epidural Steroid Injections to help with the pain. They worked for about a week and then he was worse off than before. Then he did months of physical therapy before he finally had surgery. It was better for about a year and then it ruptured again worse than the first time and he had to have surgery again. It was awful. He had so many unnecessary doctor appointments too, really annoying.
Teresa wrote: "Megan aka *Mheghan* wrote: Thats sucks. My husband had a herniated disk in his lower back and had to get Epidural Steroid Injections to help with the pain...."Eww I had that problem too. The Epi..."
HAHA
At this point in my life (thanks to my husband) I'm an expert on back injuries/physical therapist/MRI/ etc.
The only thing he really hated going to was the "Pain Management Specialist", who would just give him a shot of cortisone in the spine with a ten-inch needle. I would always try to lighten the situation by making a comment about how uncomortable it must be to take a ten-inch shot to your backside, sometimes he'd laugh, othertimes scowl.
I visit my physician and fork over the co-pay for him to tell me to go see a specialist. Call the specialist and they tell me to go to the Radiologist for X-rays!! WTF!! Can we get to the fucking point already?!
Now, I have this old lady (sweet as could be) asking me to twist my arm in all sorts of different directions so she can take pictures of it. Every single position hurt like a mother fucker! She had difficulty getting a good image of two of the angles, so she took those probably 15 times. She says, "I'm sorry honey. I know that isn't comfortable, but we're almost finished. Hold your breath. Don't move."
I left the x-ray place needing to go see a specialist. My damn shoulder hurts more now than it ever did before. Bastards. I might punch the Specialist in the nose if he gives me some surgery bullshit!