I'm too lazy to start a new blog
It looks like this hip thing might turn out to be kind of an adventure, so I'm going to try to post a little of it for posterity. Or my posterior. *rim shot*
Feel free to pass right on by ~ this is likely to be boring, whiny and involve a lot of graphic medical details (I hope!). I won't be insulted if that's not your thing at all.
For those of you still interested, ...
When I made my last post, I had received the good news that, yes, there is some serious damage in my hip joint (yay ~ Kate is not just being a drama queen!), but I was having no success getting in to see the surgeon. My orthopedist had promised to schedule an appointment for me with the surgeon, but several phone calls to both the orthopedist's and the surgeon's staffs (staves?) revealed that not only was there no appointment scheduled for me, but the soonest I could get in was mid-February.
I have a decent pain tolerance, but I am In Serious Pain. Six weeks of waiting is not a recipe to make kate952 happy. Still, I took the appointment -- better than nothing -- and then asked about pain relief.
I had initially been prescribed Darvocet, which didn't help the pain much, then was bumped up to Vicodin, which helped a little more, but I'm still hurting. As in, I can't sit for long, I can't sleep through the night, and when I walk I look like Chester from "Gunsmoke". So I asked what the next pain relief option might be. The response was that there is nothing more they can prescribe, but they can do a steroid injection into the joint. I don't know if they expected my response, but I asked if they could do it right then. Not exactly, but I'm scheduled for Monday at 8:30 a.m. I am unnaturally excited about that. Sadly, I can't take any pain meds before the injection (nothing anti-inflammatory, anyway, which is everything I've been taking), so I'm pretty miserable right now.
Maybe they thought I was just hoping to score something more narcotic or maybe it was some kind of test to see if I was serious about getting relief, but an hour after I got the steroid injection scheduled, I got a phone call letting me know that the surgeon had reviewed at my test results and wanted to see me in two weeks.
There has been much rejoicing.
Next hip post will be on how the steroid injection goes. Any and all prayers that it buys me the pain-free time I need until we can get to whatever surgery I need are most appreciated.
Feel free to pass right on by ~ this is likely to be boring, whiny and involve a lot of graphic medical details (I hope!). I won't be insulted if that's not your thing at all.
For those of you still interested, ...
When I made my last post, I had received the good news that, yes, there is some serious damage in my hip joint (yay ~ Kate is not just being a drama queen!), but I was having no success getting in to see the surgeon. My orthopedist had promised to schedule an appointment for me with the surgeon, but several phone calls to both the orthopedist's and the surgeon's staffs (staves?) revealed that not only was there no appointment scheduled for me, but the soonest I could get in was mid-February.
I have a decent pain tolerance, but I am In Serious Pain. Six weeks of waiting is not a recipe to make kate952 happy. Still, I took the appointment -- better than nothing -- and then asked about pain relief.
I had initially been prescribed Darvocet, which didn't help the pain much, then was bumped up to Vicodin, which helped a little more, but I'm still hurting. As in, I can't sit for long, I can't sleep through the night, and when I walk I look like Chester from "Gunsmoke". So I asked what the next pain relief option might be. The response was that there is nothing more they can prescribe, but they can do a steroid injection into the joint. I don't know if they expected my response, but I asked if they could do it right then. Not exactly, but I'm scheduled for Monday at 8:30 a.m. I am unnaturally excited about that. Sadly, I can't take any pain meds before the injection (nothing anti-inflammatory, anyway, which is everything I've been taking), so I'm pretty miserable right now.
Maybe they thought I was just hoping to score something more narcotic or maybe it was some kind of test to see if I was serious about getting relief, but an hour after I got the steroid injection scheduled, I got a phone call letting me know that the surgeon had reviewed at my test results and wanted to see me in two weeks.
There has been much rejoicing.
Next hip post will be on how the steroid injection goes. Any and all prayers that it buys me the pain-free time I need until we can get to whatever surgery I need are most appreciated.