Good News!
Yesterday, (when Bonnie Tyler was on the radio singing ‘I need a hero’… joke) a knight in shining armour appeared for me, out of the blue! Hurrah!
One of the gents who reads my blog called me with a great solution, and I can’t thank him enough! (he wasn’t after that sort of thanks either) He just wanted to help, as he knows how painful my shoulder was. Yes, I said was!
He was known to me through another lady, we have never met for you-know-what, but I knew he could be trusted, so all was fine there. He drove me to the specialist osteopath, and on the way he told me that he has had shoulder pain, and had been given these anti inflamatory pills that really worked, and said ‘I bet the osteopath mentions them too’.
He did!
And with this more indepth osteo examination, the news is, that I can probably be saved from a frozen shoulder, because what I really have is very ‘acute bicipital tendonitis’. I had no idea that something as small as tendons could cause so much agony.
You just imagine some rest, heat pad or icepack, and some painkillers will fix you in few days, but I was still in agony after 3 ibuprofen, (600 mg in one go!) and it was as if I’d taken nothing.
If I get ultrasound and physio treatment now, it’s possible that it won’t get to that frozen shoulder stage. Bad news was…the osteo couldn’t give me these pills, and advised that I get to my GP immediately. The osteo gave me some ultrasound, but didn’t move me around so much, he said I was the worst case of inflammation he’d seen. I was crying all the way through it, and in the waiting room too.
Oh dear…trying to get an appt at my GP is like trying to get blood out of a stone…but no worries, because the knight in shining armour had those exact same pills! I know you shouldn’t take someone elses medication, but seeing as the osteopath recommended the exact pills, I thought I would be ok to have them.
My GP was even shut all day today! FFS…
Have to call them tomorrow, might get an appt in a few weeks. In the meantime, I have enough pills. I have only had 2 today, I had more yesterday. I don’t like taking pills, I go for natural remedies first. But as this was so sudden and acute, I needed a hardcore chemical remedy! Good thing is, they are non addictive, they are not a painkiller, but anti inflammatory, and I won’t need them forever. I hope.
So thanks to this very helpful gent. Thank You Thank You Thank You! If it wasn’t for you, I’d still be crying!
Within 3hrs, the pain had gone from 10/10 to about 3/10! Hurrah for ‘diclofenac’.
It is still painful, but not half the agony it was, and I can even move a bit with no extra pain. I even managed to put on a sweater today. I am going to the osteo again, tomorrow and Monday.
Guess what? At my local GP’s there is a doctor called Dr Doll. Honest, I’ve seen her!
I am still going to be out of action for a long time, sorry… in the meantime, I can still blog and answer mail etc.
December 17th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Am very pleased to hear you’re feeling a bit better, and hope the ultrasound and physio treatment will do the trick.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
paul says am glad for you that it was not your shoulder and that the treatment should help.have a lovely christmas and new year
December 19th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Who says chivalry is dead? Between this knight, Bacchus, and others, it is apparent that True Gentlemen are still alive and kicking. Bravo to them all.