He wants to try Physio & Bio first, to see if we can't maybe get the muscles to take over the work from my legiments. So far, it has worked for my knees, albeit just to stop them from popping out as they can't do anything about the chondro accept try and halt the degen.
No degen in my shoulder is a reason for selebration tho
. The last thing I need now, is yet another osteo joint. I am seeing the Bio tomorrow and hear what he has to say.
Drake,
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Good news about the degen. Bad news about the ligaments.
There is something called prolotherapy, which some EDSers swear by (and some warn against) which can strengthen ligaments. It basically involves injecting a saline solution directly into the ligament, irritating it so that it creates scar tissue (scar tissue is less stretchy than regular ligament). I have not tried this and therefore don't directly recommend it. But it may be something you want to research and talk to your doc about.
As much as I dislike PT, it is better than surgery, since surgery always means PT also, just later.
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Yee Gads... sorry about that OSM. I truely hope I didn't trigger any migraines or seizures... Flip me over your knee and give me a good smacking. It seems like I am not as carefull with my blogging as I am with my coding ;D
ReplyDeleteAs for the medication ... it is worth looking into. I would say tho that for joints with "loose" moving parts such as a knee, it is definately not advisable, as the scarring can make it easier for the patella to "slip off the rails" so to speak but for "structurally sound" joints such as the shoulder, it might just work.
Yanub: That's for sure... I just say Bio as it is easier than writing the whole word :P. It refers to "Bio-Kinetecist", which is just a fancy word for a medical gym instructor. They know how to work with strengthening joints and get your joints back to working order after a serious injury... much like the next step after physio when you have a problem that won't go away after recovery and the muscles and or other joints needs to be manipulated into taking over the work of a problem area.
P.S. OSM ...
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Ah yes... I know all too well the frustration of being denied sugary sweet stuff.
Untill I was 16, doctors could not figure out why I was having leg pains and eventually wrote it off to some intolerence to sugar. Not that I am going to dispute the fact that I most prob have some kind of sugar related issue, but it was definately not due to the sugar...it was due to Osgood-Schlatter combined with the Marfan's that I had horrible leg pains.
Needless to say, I wasn't allowed to eat anything sweet, except diet coke and diet chocolates for most of my growing years. I know how you feel...I will have a slab on you tonight ;D.
As for the Doctor post...I liked it. The one thing I realised from it, is that as a programmer, I find it extremely frustrating when working on someone else's code, especially when it is not well documented/commented and I can't ask the original programmer ... I guess it tends to be the same in the case of a doctor?
Unfortunately, God, even though He was the best programmer to ever be, did not leave us a manual or UML diagrams as to how our bodies work. That would have been very neat tho...especially when it comes to the DB (Our Brains) mehehee :D
I guess, you are much better at sniffing out issues in unknown code than actual programmers are. There is a saying that I believe in ... even though programmers should test their own work to the best of their abilities and if things are planned properly there should only be minor, very silly oversights, the testing should never end at the programmer, as a programmer is human and has been staring at the same piece of code for hours on end and will inadvertently miss some erronious bug and/or error that someone else might spot in an instant.
I used to work at a company where a sales guy, with no programming experience what-so ever, would wander into the dev-office and point out a mistake to the head developer of 10 years experience mehe ... that used to be so funny ... but I understand why.