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I have to take it easy because I'm recovering from my seventh PRP session (Aug. 30), BUT I feel better than I've felt in years, literally. I'm bored of t.v., I'm bored of computer, I don't feel like reading, I have nobody to talk to right now and I'm SO G'DAMNED TIRED OF BEING IN THIS HOUSE!
The PRP worked. It took time and wasn't cheap (but probably about what I would have had as copays, and I never lost full use of either arm). Oh,I got a copy of my MRI reports and what I had was a full thickness tear of the supraspinatus tendon without retraction on the right and a partial tear on the left. I also had the beginnings of epicondylosis in both elbows without tearing and some very minor tears of other tendons in both shoulders. All the minor tears and epicondylosis filled in with one session, the full thickness tear took six sessions and I had one remaining hole left in the left shoulder that he did last week. For the osteoarthritis in my knees we started PRP, left one first. Synvisc was a tease, it made them feel awesome for exactly two months and one day - then wham, right back to where they were. I get my right knee done next week and then I'll probably be alternating Synvisc and PRP for a while. The left knee was unbendable for about 48 hours but feels dynamite now.
Gotta say, fucking weird to not be in constant pain anymore. It's been rainy as shit and normally it would feel like someone is stabbing my left shoulder with a screwdriver and it's just a pinch achy. Less than one week out from PRP and that's a damned good sign.
But I'm STILL fucking bored. I feel better and want to do shit and have to remind myself to let crap heal, blech.
/rant
I have to take it easy because I'm recovering from my seventh PRP session (Aug. 30), BUT I feel better than I've felt in years, literally. I'm bored of t.v., I'm bored of computer, I don't feel like reading, I have nobody to talk to right now and I'm SO G'DAMNED TIRED OF BEING IN THIS HOUSE!
The PRP worked. It took time and wasn't cheap (but probably about what I would have had as copays, and I never lost full use of either arm). Oh,I got a copy of my MRI reports and what I had was a full thickness tear of the supraspinatus tendon without retraction on the right and a partial tear on the left. I also had the beginnings of epicondylosis in both elbows without tearing and some very minor tears of other tendons in both shoulders. All the minor tears and epicondylosis filled in with one session, the full thickness tear took six sessions and I had one remaining hole left in the left shoulder that he did last week. For the osteoarthritis in my knees we started PRP, left one first. Synvisc was a tease, it made them feel awesome for exactly two months and one day - then wham, right back to where they were. I get my right knee done next week and then I'll probably be alternating Synvisc and PRP for a while. The left knee was unbendable for about 48 hours but feels dynamite now.
Gotta say, fucking weird to not be in constant pain anymore. It's been rainy as shit and normally it would feel like someone is stabbing my left shoulder with a screwdriver and it's just a pinch achy. Less than one week out from PRP and that's a damned good sign.
But I'm STILL fucking bored. I feel better and want to do shit and have to remind myself to let crap heal, blech.
/rant
