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beansideIt's Saturday!! Whoo! And yet I'm still up by 6:15! Whoo?
Thankfully, yesterday the pain management doctor was easy. I was there less than an hour total, and walked out with a prescription for Tramadol, and a promise to continue prescribing for 3-4 months. The pain management doctor said that he was not a shoulder doctor, but that the MRI didn't sound great.
I set up an appointment for a consult with the doctor who did my brother in law's shoulder surgery. Hopefully, he'll be a bit better than the last one. That's not until the 21st, though.
I downloaded the images off my chart, so I could put the file on a thumb drive for the doctor, so I present to you: My MRI money shot:
Looking at it, I'm not sure how the original ortho thought it wasn't a full tear? I'm not sure what the white is, but I'm guessing it shouldn't be there. And it's definitely the full 1.47cm. So, we'll see what the second doctor says. I don't want surgery, but I also don't feel like I'm going to get better on just physical therapy. I think some sort of medical intervention might be needed. Everything I've read says that tears don't get better on their own. All PT does is strengthen the muscles around the tear to compensate. With tears in both the supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons, I feel like it would be difficult to compensate.
All I know is that it hurt so bad last night that it woke me up and kept me up for a good hour and a half while the tramadol kicked back in. Fortunatelypoisontaster was awake and listened to me babble for a while.
Today we have accupuncture intake appointments. Mine is at 9 and Jess' is at 11. They did accupuncture for their migraines a long time ago and found it helpful. We just haven't been able to afford it, and the insurance didn't cover it. But Hopkins does, so we might as well use it. And honestly right now I'll take all the help I can get.
Once we finish that up, we're grabbing lunch and hurrying home for game at 2:30pm. Today's game is a monster of the week, set in New Orleans. It's 100% out of my little brain, but fortunately, most of it was planned out a couple of months ago. So it's all good.
Okay, time to go forth and figure out what one wears to one's first accupuncture visit.
Everyone have an amazing Saturday!
Thankfully, yesterday the pain management doctor was easy. I was there less than an hour total, and walked out with a prescription for Tramadol, and a promise to continue prescribing for 3-4 months. The pain management doctor said that he was not a shoulder doctor, but that the MRI didn't sound great.
I set up an appointment for a consult with the doctor who did my brother in law's shoulder surgery. Hopefully, he'll be a bit better than the last one. That's not until the 21st, though.
I downloaded the images off my chart, so I could put the file on a thumb drive for the doctor, so I present to you: My MRI money shot:
Looking at it, I'm not sure how the original ortho thought it wasn't a full tear? I'm not sure what the white is, but I'm guessing it shouldn't be there. And it's definitely the full 1.47cm. So, we'll see what the second doctor says. I don't want surgery, but I also don't feel like I'm going to get better on just physical therapy. I think some sort of medical intervention might be needed. Everything I've read says that tears don't get better on their own. All PT does is strengthen the muscles around the tear to compensate. With tears in both the supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons, I feel like it would be difficult to compensate.
All I know is that it hurt so bad last night that it woke me up and kept me up for a good hour and a half while the tramadol kicked back in. Fortunately
poisontaster was awake and listened to me babble for a while.Today we have accupuncture intake appointments. Mine is at 9 and Jess' is at 11. They did accupuncture for their migraines a long time ago and found it helpful. We just haven't been able to afford it, and the insurance didn't cover it. But Hopkins does, so we might as well use it. And honestly right now I'll take all the help I can get.
Once we finish that up, we're grabbing lunch and hurrying home for game at 2:30pm. Today's game is a monster of the week, set in New Orleans. It's 100% out of my little brain, but fortunately, most of it was planned out a couple of months ago. So it's all good.
Okay, time to go forth and figure out what one wears to one's first accupuncture visit.
Everyone have an amazing Saturday!
