mollmeister
Angel Diva
Well, not exactly. But also yes. . . DH thinks it's funny to call me his *deformed wife.* (Such a class act.)
So you'd think I'd go to the ortho for my worked knees. But no.
A few weeks ago, I started having a lot of pain in my left wrist. The one I use to cart around babies and small children. I thought maybe it was an overuse injury or a sprain or something, but when it didn't get better and the end of the ulna (that knobby bit near the wrist) got quite swollen and stayed that way-- even with ice and *Vitamin A*-- I decided to see the ortho.
Well. . . it turns out my ulna is 4mm too long. Whaaa? Why it started bothering me right now is unclear (could be overuse, could be an injury I hardly noticed), but I now have an ulnar impaction, which means that my overly long ulna is pressing into the cartilage at the wrist and causing irritation and inflammation. Long term, it could cause pretty bad arthritis.
So, for now I am on a LOT (yuck) of Aleve and an herbal anti-inflammatory. And I am trying not to use it as much. Which is working sort of. It doesn't hurt as much as it did.
If it continues to bother me, I have a scrip for PT, which mostly seems to consist of some electrode-based technique for introducing anti-inflammatories into the joint directly through the skin, which I guess saves my stomach. And if that fails, cortisone shots. Which have a limited time frame for continuing to work, so I want to wait on that.
The only thing that will *fix* it, though, is surgery. Sigh. And we're not talking a simple arthroscopic snip-snip. Nope. The gold standard of surgery for this condition (gulp) is going in and cutting out a wafer of bone to shorten it, and then reattaching the two remaining pieces of bone with a (BIG) metal plate and a bunch of screws. SUPER! Not. :mad:
If I'm going to have to spend $$ and recovery time on ortho surgery, I want it to be to fix my knee! Not this! :(
Anywhoo, I wasn't typing much while it was really bothering me, so I haven't been around. Here I am!
So you'd think I'd go to the ortho for my worked knees. But no.
A few weeks ago, I started having a lot of pain in my left wrist. The one I use to cart around babies and small children. I thought maybe it was an overuse injury or a sprain or something, but when it didn't get better and the end of the ulna (that knobby bit near the wrist) got quite swollen and stayed that way-- even with ice and *Vitamin A*-- I decided to see the ortho.
Well. . . it turns out my ulna is 4mm too long. Whaaa? Why it started bothering me right now is unclear (could be overuse, could be an injury I hardly noticed), but I now have an ulnar impaction, which means that my overly long ulna is pressing into the cartilage at the wrist and causing irritation and inflammation. Long term, it could cause pretty bad arthritis.
So, for now I am on a LOT (yuck) of Aleve and an herbal anti-inflammatory. And I am trying not to use it as much. Which is working sort of. It doesn't hurt as much as it did.
If it continues to bother me, I have a scrip for PT, which mostly seems to consist of some electrode-based technique for introducing anti-inflammatories into the joint directly through the skin, which I guess saves my stomach. And if that fails, cortisone shots. Which have a limited time frame for continuing to work, so I want to wait on that.
The only thing that will *fix* it, though, is surgery. Sigh. And we're not talking a simple arthroscopic snip-snip. Nope. The gold standard of surgery for this condition (gulp) is going in and cutting out a wafer of bone to shorten it, and then reattaching the two remaining pieces of bone with a (BIG) metal plate and a bunch of screws. SUPER! Not. :mad:
If I'm going to have to spend $$ and recovery time on ortho surgery, I want it to be to fix my knee! Not this! :(
Anywhoo, I wasn't typing much while it was really bothering me, so I haven't been around. Here I am!