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I found I have a herniated disk a while back and have been doing physical therapy for it. At the same time, I've been getting a pain in my left arm. Now having been a medic in the army at one time, and a certified nurse's assistant now, I know what a pain in my left arm can mean, but I was pretty sure that's not the problem.
I went to the doctor in June and found out that I've got a bone spur in my elbow. I had a steroid shot in it, and the pain diminished. It came back around Thanksgiving, and I finally got in to see the doctor on Friday. He showed me the spur on the ultrasound, and it is growing into a ligament. Ugh! I got another steroid shot, but he doesn't want to do a third. If the pain returns again, which I suspect is inevitable, I'm going to have to get some surgery.
But, on the good side, I should be able to type more now. Between the bone spur and the disk, I've been pretty much lazing around, watching Royal Institute science lectures, but with no pain in my arm now, hopefully, my muse will make an appearance.
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I tell this story but no one believes me...
Back in the 70s, I worked in a warehouse as an inventory clerk. One of the first days there, my left foot got run over by a cart loaded with the huge batteries for John Deere tractors. It hurt but I could walk on it. A few days later, I couldn't.
I went to the doctor and he did an x-ray and told me that I now had a heel spur growing on that foot. He injected the area with anesthetic, hit the bottom of my foot with a padded hammer, then injected steroids into the same area and told me to stay off the heel for several days.
No more bone spur or pain.
The part of this story people find hard to believe, including other doctors, is the hitting the heel with the hammer. But it really happened and it worked. It was a large hammer made of steel, rubber and padding with a very flat face. Maybe it's hard to know where to aim with an elbow?
It's a true story, but I hope I made you smile at its absurdity. :)
Hugs and good luck,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Hmmm
"When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like"...a bone spur? Should also work for cysts!
And now I've got that Beatles song stuck in my head. "Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine..."
If it's stupid, but it works...
it wasn't stupid as they say! I doubt that was a treatment he learned in medical school, but I find it very believable, Erin!
I'm out of my mind and into yours!
Maxim #43
I simply must counter this with Maxim #43:
If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.
(© Howard Tayler, schlockmercenary.com)
Yes, I have the T-Shirt. ;-)
I can understand it,
I can understand it, especially on the heel.
I jumped off my flatbed one day when I drove truck, and landed wrong. I messed up my right foot in between a couple of toes. I got a steroid shot there and it's never bothered me since. That was about 8 years ago.
I was hoping this would be the same idea, but I guess with the spur growing where it is, it's just going to hurt regardless.
Hugs!
Rosemary
Makes sense
Once the spur is broken off, since it is not part of the body plan, it gets absorbed. Since there is no scaffolding to make the bone spur bigger. Staying off ones feet will reduce bone growth stimulation, preventing the spur from coming back.
Astronauts in the Internation Space Station experience bone loss unless they exercise daily and even then there is some loss.
In this case, you want that bone loss.