Warmth in an MRI is common. Not sure how readily explainable it is - my best guesses would be wild ones - but I often experience it. (Mind you, I also often fall asleep in them now, despite the noise.)
The problem with the hip is not uncommon either. Musculo-skeletal system complains like billy-o when you make it do things it isn't used to, and positioning part A in a non-painful way often leads to pain in part B. (For me lately it's been right hip complaining about right shoulder, weirdly.) Take the drugs. Soldiering on in pain when you have painkillers available rather misses the point of the prescription, and in some cases will actually slow recovery. Hopefully you'll never need to go on patient programmes, but they're all very firm about this. Take the drugs. :)
Mostly I'm not in pain - not from the knees, anyway! And I have been taking (over the counter) Ibuprofen when things hurt. Trouble is, I have to balance taking painkillers with the inevitable stomach woe from NSAIDs. Given my history with them, the doctor agreed that taking the painkillers the Austrian doctor prescribed was probably quite a bad idea.
Interesting to know that MRI warmth isn't just my imagination, though :)
The hip doesn't surprise me, I totally trashed my right leg a few years ago ( it's now held together with lots and lots of rods and screws and an all singing all dancing hinge thing in my ankle), the bionic leg works well but it's thrown my gait out so, after a long day or any walk over about 5 miles my left hip is screaming in agony.
Thank you for saying that, though. When bits of me hurt my attitude is always that I want to work out why, and solve it, and I should probably bear in mind that sometimes that just isn't going to happen! And the taking things slowly is sound advice, see today's post for why I should have taken it! (My posts are a few days behind "real time".)
I remember that about the MRI room (I did have the big complete body one) - asked if I could walk into the room without metal crutches, and when I'm like um no, they act like it's an issue no one has ever had before.
I got pain in my stomach and back after a while, I'm not sure if the was due to over-exertion going up the stairs, or too little activity from being in bed most the day - people did tell me it could well be the latter.
The radigorapher I saw was all ready with the wheely-chair solution, but she did give the impression of someone spontaneously coming up with an idea. It does seem odd!
I should probably stop trying to figure out exactly what's causing different bits of me to hurt. Bodies are fundamentally inter-connected in a way that I'm unlikely to solve in a couple of days :)
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The problem with the hip is not uncommon either. Musculo-skeletal system complains like billy-o when you make it do things it isn't used to, and positioning part A in a non-painful way often leads to pain in part B. (For me lately it's been right hip complaining about right shoulder, weirdly.) Take the drugs. Soldiering on in pain when you have painkillers available rather misses the point of the prescription, and in some cases will actually slow recovery. Hopefully you'll never need to go on patient programmes, but they're all very firm about this. Take the drugs. :)
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Interesting to know that MRI warmth isn't just my imagination, though :)
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Take things steady, ligaments take time to heal.
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Thank you for saying that, though. When bits of me hurt my attitude is always that I want to work out why, and solve it, and I should probably bear in mind that sometimes that just isn't going to happen! And the taking things slowly is sound advice, see today's post for why I should have taken it! (My posts are a few days behind "real time".)
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I got pain in my stomach and back after a while, I'm not sure if the was due to over-exertion going up the stairs, or too little activity from being in bed most the day - people did tell me it could well be the latter.
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I should probably stop trying to figure out exactly what's causing different bits of me to hurt. Bodies are fundamentally inter-connected in a way that I'm unlikely to solve in a couple of days :)
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Though I'm afraid you have lost me with the 19 hours comment, which I feel is a failure on my part :)
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