urbandruid | (no subject)

Well, today's going to be fun, in the sense of not really.

So my doc thought I just had really bad tendinitis in my right shoulder. Turns out... maybe not. I got one shot back in October, in a place I don't really wanna talk about, which seemed to do wonders for a while there. Then the swelling and the pain started creeping back up... and this is with prescription-strength anti-inflammatory drugs twice a day. So I went back to the doc in early November. Got another shot, which didn't seem to do nearly as much for me as the last one did... and got scheduled for an MRI.

Which I tried to do last week. Only, it turns out? I'm not just slightly claustrophobic, I'm really claustrophobic. So I'm going back today, they're giving me some kind of conscious sedation (I'd prefer unconscious, actually...) and we're gonna try again.

They said I could take my pills in the morning with small sips of water, but what I really need to take my pills (anti-inflammatories included) is food. Which I can't have for six hours before my appointment.

No food, no pills, nothing to drink- and I'm not really all that hungry, but I'm really thirsty. Bringing a bottle of water to have when I get out of there, but it's sure no fun right now.

Oh yeah, and I'm 1.) still scared to death of the MRI machine of doom, and 2.) even more scared that my doc's right, I've torn my rotator cuff, and I might need surgery to fix it.

If I never need another surgery in my LIFE it will be too soon.

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That's horrible. So did they say it was a torn rotary cuff?

Yeah,

g_shadowslayer is claustrophobic, too. I dread the day she needs to get into an MRI.

Dunno yet, they have to send the report to my doc's office, then the doc's going to call me.

It's funny, I didn't think I was that claustrophobic. Yeah, I thought I remembered that about her. My uncle told me there are open-air MRIs, there's one here in town, but everybody wants to use it for some reason.

Yeah, I've been in the open MRI. It's not bad. Your head is out and only the portion you need scanned is covered. It's like being in a big donut.

Ah, cool. Wish they were all like that.

I just wish there wasn't all the holding of breath, etc. It's a pain, cause it seems to take forever for them to get through it before you can breathe again.