Here We Go Again !

I wish you a speedy recovery, Lynn!

[Apakhana Akshobhya]

I'm catching up on reading this, I hope all is going well Lynn. Sending you emerald green healing vibes!

[Lynn]

Hello

Well its been a long long ride I have been on. So many trips to the Emergency Room and hospital stays. No answers found and so many tests done and drugs prescribed. One even gave me suicidal thoughts and that was truly scary ! As that is so not a part of whom I am in life. I value life and I know that I would never want out of it from pain. Yet I too now have a better understanding of how "pain" can put you into the darkest of dark places in life.

So many pain medications, so many tests MRI CT Scans and no answers ! To the point I had to leave work and get a walker ! Again this is not whom I am as I get that I am now 60 years old, but I am not someone that just sits around and does nothing. Yet that is whom I became in the last few months.

I went to a Walk in Clinic a week ago and I finally got a Dr that examined me and understood what was wrong ! I went there looking for a re fill on yes pain pills and he said "NO" to that and that he had the solution to what is wrong. I was OK I will listen.....and I will try the work your suggesting.

I was told it was Sciatic and that it was a life long struggle a head with medications, I too was told it was Neuropathy and again a life long struggle a head for me. I was told it was the "Blood Sugar" that was the issue I had and again medications and a struggle a head.

WELL that was all ** to put it mildly ! This Dr read the reports of all the visits and examined me. He said Sciatic does not stop at the knee and that my sugar numbers could be a bit better but were no where near a danger zone....that my feet while unusual were not in any way the issue or swollen. That I had a great muscle mass for my age and was in no way "Obese" like some Dr reports said. That the pain was yes a lot in "my head" but not in the way I was looking for medication or sympathy. That the brain was living in that pain zone as that was the only way to cope the body had.

He diagnosed a frozen hip, where it had locked not on a nerve but in place casing the legs to weaken and for me to fall multiple times. I feel leaving the ER twice to be sent home. I had yet another concussion. I could not sleep and I lost any interest in eating. To have to remind yourself to "eat" is a scary thing. Bonus is I am down a lot of weight and with seeing eating patterns now I should have a better handle on that going forwards.

What I have been doing for the past 2 weeks is finally helping. Its the total opposite to what I was told I had to do. I have an ice gel pack that I use several times a day, I have stretching exercises to do daily, I am on the bike again. I sleep part of the night on the ice pack. I am going back to work part time, later this week. I am only on Tylenol Arthritis every 8 hours.

The last 2 nights I have stayed in bed all night and finally feel more rested. I start physio on the 25th. I am in the pool a few times a week.

Going forwards there is a report going in on the care I have had from the medical professionals ! I wonder how many like me have been ignored ! I get that the medical system is over run and short on staff, we have huge addiction issues and mental health issues where I live....and that takes it toll on life. Yet we need to be heard and understood by a Dr when we need help. We need to be seen for whom we are and not all put into that body mold.... Barbie comes to mind....in what is the norm.

I am going to become an advocate for change! I will not go down without a fight! Yes I am 60 but I am far from being done with life !

Fight on and keep looking for answers when you know there is something wrong with you. I have cardio to work on getting back next, as the rib fracture sure took that breath out of me. That will too come back in time.

I thank you all for your thoughts.

Lynn

[Gem]

Sounds about right. Physio is great. On a good path it seems.

[Native spirit]

Hope the physio helps you here the waiting lists to see a consultant is really long,
I am waiting to see a skeletal specialist. but i have been told some people have been waiting two years.
Glad to hear things are a bit better for you


Namaste

We all love you lynn very much and keep ya in our thoughts always!

[Lynn]

Hello

I am on the long road of recovery and therapy. I never had Sciatica and I never had Neropathy . I finally got a diagnosis that made sense. I have a frozen hip joint and the therapy for that is the opposite of the other conditions.

I have a lot of pain still but its an ache that is annoying and nothing will touch it with medications as a lot is the brain playing on it.

I have exercises to do and I have to take things slower. I am back at work very part time, and that might be all I can do.

Things are moving forwards baby steps and less sleepless nights.

I will be whole again. Seeing a therapist on the 30th for exercises I hope I can do this time round as the floor and bad knees do not mix.

Lynn

[Miss Hepburn]

Fascinating. And that it took this long to fig out.
This can be fixed now...slowly. Yay!

Im glad to hear that Lynn!!!

Thanx for the update!!

[Native spirit]

Good to hear you are on the mend continuing to send Healing to you



Namaste