Frustrated! What did I do??

[rodriguezpoultry]

I know it shouldn't be funny, but how on earth do you do these things?! LOL!

Maybe DH was laying on it and when you moved "SNAP"?

 

[gritsar]

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I'm learning what I can and cannot do with the arm. If I keep the elbow close to my body I can do almost anything; it'll be sore, but not what I'd call painful. I can reach out with it with only mild pain. It's pulling it back to my body that makes me squeal. Still can't brush my hair. DH does that for me and the other things I can't do, like put dishes away in the high cabinets. Getting better about using my left hand for certain things, like the computer mouse.
The pain has "centralized" to one spot now, my bicep.
I have a drs. appt. on Thursday; earliest I could get.

Can't take aleve (or any NSAIDs). I have a Rx med. for pain and the tiger balm patches.

ETA: My first post wasn't very clear. I can move the arm back, behind me, with no problem. If I reach out in front of me it doesn't hurt so bad now, it's drawing it back to my body that hurts.

 

[gritsar]

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DH says I need a babysitter.

I laid on the bathroom floor for five minutes because the sound of me falling, breaking the puppy gate, and the dogs barking and climbing all over me to see if I was alright wasn't enough to wake DH up.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I sure can't diagnose it from here. Depending on what it is, you may or may not be better off making a special trip to the emergency room. They'll probably take some X-rays and tell you to see a specialist anyway. The benefit would be to get you to a specialist earlier and getting better pain treatments, whether that is medications or a good sling or wrap. Sounds like it needs to be immobilized. And you might be doing a lot of permanant damage by delaying. I sure don't know and I don't think you do either.

I had to make my wife go to the emergency room when she fell about a year ago. She wound up cracking a bone in her elbow. She also has some issues with which pain killers she can take but they sorted that. The main thing they did for her was immobilize it some for a while. When she did get to a specialist, they talked about her injury about 10% of the time and her arthritis the other 90%. She even got physical therapy for her arthritis, not the cracked bone, out of that incident.

And just to put you on notice. I'll remember this incident next time you make those sexist comments picking on men and how they won't do some things. This is exactly the type of thing you would be complaining about Keith not doing if this happened to him.

I do want you to take care of yourself.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Definitely sounds like a rotator cuff. Generally you don't feel pain (much) and you can use it if the arm is not extended.

 

[redhen]

Better git to the docs, Gritty..

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

I will begin with

before a short lecture....

Iffin' ya tore a tendon, they do tend to retract and become much more difficult to repair the klonger you wait....


Just sayin'

 

[gritsar]

IRM,

right back at ya.

 

[theoldchick]

Micro-tear of the rotator cuff is my guess. May require PT but rarely requires surgery if your arm is mobile. Does require 'rest' in that you can't lift heavy objects for about 6 months. It does get better but if you are like me you eventually injure another part of your body!

 

[1shelby1]

Nanny elbow-when the elbow 'slips' out of the socket(as in when the nanny(!) pulls the child one way and the child pulls the other-pop!We thought my daughter had broken her brother's arm when she swung him around!
take care-see the doc!