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Hello to anybody who is interested enough to read this thread. If you're reading this, you get the update.
I haven't been around for a long time. I drop in, read some threads but have nothing interesting/amusing or worthwhile to contribute -- and plenty on this board feel that is no more than the normal state of affairs when it comes to me so it is what it is.
My tendons are basically fucked. Back in the fall of 2010 I had two rotator cuff tears in my right shoulder. Went alternative and tried a treatment called PRP. One tendon was completely healed within three treatments. The second tendon has been stubborn and there's still a small area of thinning that the doctor wants to treat one final time ... meanwhile, in the fall of 2011, totally out of the blue and for absolutely no apparent reason, the tendon in my left shoulder went bad. Only one small tear but after two treatments it's still giving me misery. Oh, and I've also got bursitis in both shoulders, joy.
Had a follow-up on the 14th of this month and it was decided to go ahead with one more treatment of the right shoulder. The tear in the left shoulder is very small and I can't understand why it hurts so much. I'm particularly weather sensitive (best barometer on the block you could say).
While I was getting the ultrasounds on my shoulders I asked the doctor if he could check my elbows, which have been bitching at me more than usual. A few years into doing transcription full time I would get elbow problems after particularly rough marathon sessions and figured I had tennis elbow (my mom had it when she was about my age). It used to be just my right elbow but now my left is kicking up to. So the doc ultrasounds both elbows, surprise, surprise, the tendons are thinning and if not torn, verging on it (the technical term my doctor to describe their condition was "mush").
Joy and BTW, WTF?!
We decide to PRP the right shoulder, and prolotherapy the left should and elbows. I'm going to have four joints stuck in June, goody.
So a day or two after the follow-up I go for a nice walk. Weather has been beautiful. I didn't do anything spectacular, just went for a nice 2 mile walk and admired the spring flowers.
Next day I could barely use my left leg. The knee was fucked and painful down the side of the joint.
So I've had this happen before, but it was in my right knee. My knees ache in the winter and bad weather and it sounds like I'm walking on Rice Crispies when I go up stairs. I've had my right knee go wonky on me a few times before but it always happened when I turned funny or something like that and it hurt immediately. This time it was my left knee, and my knee felt fine during and after the walk. I rested it up and figured it would be okay after a week, ummm, no. It's alright as long as I take things very easy and don't spend very much time walking, climbing stairs or whatnot, basically, it'll start bothering me if I climb the stairs in my own house three or four times.
So I'm waiting for the doctor to send me a prescription for knee and ankle x-rays (yeah, those hurt too sometimes, as well as my hip joints).
I've got a prescription for about 8 different blood tests to rule out inflammatory conditions/diseases. I asked my chiropractor the other day, what should I hope for? Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis?
Y'know what kills me? I've always been active, a walker, exercised pretty regularly, lifted weights but always safely, not outrageously heavy and with good form, took vitamins, have always eaten a really healthy diet with virtually no processed foods and have been gluten free for over ten years. Fat lotta good it's all done me. My back and neck are still as screwed up as they've been since I was a kid, however, they actually feel pretty damned good compared to my arms and legs (expensive cervical pillow and a Tempurpedic mattress were a very good investment).
Before anybody asks, no, no idea what this is or what's causing it and the doctor won't hazard a guess until he sees the blood work. He says there are situations where tendons just start going to hell for no clear reason.
Oh, and anybody who makes any smartass cracks about fixing it with crystals and chanting, go fuck yourselves.
Alternatively, nobody needs to suggest GH, I've been on growth hormone boosting peptides for nearly a year now. My husband has even wondered if that contributed somehow to the problem but I can't imagine that it would and I'm not messing about with straight GH, I've got enough screwed up in my body right now.
For those who don't have interest in reading the entire post: My tendons are blowing out, both arms are fucked, legs are probably next.
As anyone who enjoys physical activity could imagine, I find this entire state of affairs disheartening. I miss my weights but I have a sneaking suspicion that part of my life will become a memory. Pity, I've got a fucking awesome home gym.
That is all.
I haven't been around for a long time. I drop in, read some threads but have nothing interesting/amusing or worthwhile to contribute -- and plenty on this board feel that is no more than the normal state of affairs when it comes to me so it is what it is.
My tendons are basically fucked. Back in the fall of 2010 I had two rotator cuff tears in my right shoulder. Went alternative and tried a treatment called PRP. One tendon was completely healed within three treatments. The second tendon has been stubborn and there's still a small area of thinning that the doctor wants to treat one final time ... meanwhile, in the fall of 2011, totally out of the blue and for absolutely no apparent reason, the tendon in my left shoulder went bad. Only one small tear but after two treatments it's still giving me misery. Oh, and I've also got bursitis in both shoulders, joy.
Had a follow-up on the 14th of this month and it was decided to go ahead with one more treatment of the right shoulder. The tear in the left shoulder is very small and I can't understand why it hurts so much. I'm particularly weather sensitive (best barometer on the block you could say).
While I was getting the ultrasounds on my shoulders I asked the doctor if he could check my elbows, which have been bitching at me more than usual. A few years into doing transcription full time I would get elbow problems after particularly rough marathon sessions and figured I had tennis elbow (my mom had it when she was about my age). It used to be just my right elbow but now my left is kicking up to. So the doc ultrasounds both elbows, surprise, surprise, the tendons are thinning and if not torn, verging on it (the technical term my doctor to describe their condition was "mush").
Joy and BTW, WTF?!
We decide to PRP the right shoulder, and prolotherapy the left should and elbows. I'm going to have four joints stuck in June, goody.
So a day or two after the follow-up I go for a nice walk. Weather has been beautiful. I didn't do anything spectacular, just went for a nice 2 mile walk and admired the spring flowers.
Next day I could barely use my left leg. The knee was fucked and painful down the side of the joint.
So I've had this happen before, but it was in my right knee. My knees ache in the winter and bad weather and it sounds like I'm walking on Rice Crispies when I go up stairs. I've had my right knee go wonky on me a few times before but it always happened when I turned funny or something like that and it hurt immediately. This time it was my left knee, and my knee felt fine during and after the walk. I rested it up and figured it would be okay after a week, ummm, no. It's alright as long as I take things very easy and don't spend very much time walking, climbing stairs or whatnot, basically, it'll start bothering me if I climb the stairs in my own house three or four times.
So I'm waiting for the doctor to send me a prescription for knee and ankle x-rays (yeah, those hurt too sometimes, as well as my hip joints).
I've got a prescription for about 8 different blood tests to rule out inflammatory conditions/diseases. I asked my chiropractor the other day, what should I hope for? Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis?
Y'know what kills me? I've always been active, a walker, exercised pretty regularly, lifted weights but always safely, not outrageously heavy and with good form, took vitamins, have always eaten a really healthy diet with virtually no processed foods and have been gluten free for over ten years. Fat lotta good it's all done me. My back and neck are still as screwed up as they've been since I was a kid, however, they actually feel pretty damned good compared to my arms and legs (expensive cervical pillow and a Tempurpedic mattress were a very good investment).
Before anybody asks, no, no idea what this is or what's causing it and the doctor won't hazard a guess until he sees the blood work. He says there are situations where tendons just start going to hell for no clear reason.
Oh, and anybody who makes any smartass cracks about fixing it with crystals and chanting, go fuck yourselves.
Alternatively, nobody needs to suggest GH, I've been on growth hormone boosting peptides for nearly a year now. My husband has even wondered if that contributed somehow to the problem but I can't imagine that it would and I'm not messing about with straight GH, I've got enough screwed up in my body right now.
For those who don't have interest in reading the entire post: My tendons are blowing out, both arms are fucked, legs are probably next.
As anyone who enjoys physical activity could imagine, I find this entire state of affairs disheartening. I miss my weights but I have a sneaking suspicion that part of my life will become a memory. Pity, I've got a fucking awesome home gym.
That is all.
I wonder if it's lupus.
