Thanks for the reminder spunky. I do need reminding often. Today was really the first day that I felt pretty good and I did more than I should’ve. I actually peeled potatoes! And then I squeezed a sponge. Normally squeezing a sponge just brings shooting pain into my elbow. And today it wasn’t half bad.
Just like you said, the physical therapist also said it will take a while for me to get better. Especially since I’ve had this tendinosis building up for about four months. So it will take at least that long to get back to normal. From what she said, tendinosis is when you have tendinitis recurring over and over. Then micro tears appear in the tendon. And it needs to be treated different, I didn’t start getting better until I quit all anti-inflammatories and quit using ice. Those was actually stopped the healing.
So now I’m doing nothing and I just have the heating pad. I need to remember that even if I don’t feel pain, I am not cured! Not yet.
What is the medication the doctor gave you, was it an anti-inflammatory or a pain reliever? wow, You’ve had your tendinitis quite a while. I hope you were able to stop the activity that caused it. Where is yours? Mine is in my elbows.
Re: tendinitis
I have an injury in my wrist from a home project I did in June . Funny thing is when I was doing the project nothing hurt. It started the next day. I used a good stapler not a paper stapler, to staple stair treads on my basement stairs. There were 13 stairs and I put about 10 staples in each tread. Did the job all at once in less than half an hour. Little did I know that project would cause so much pain. Really bad the first days and now is more dull pain but still persistent.
Sometimes flicking on a light switch triggers sudden pain, or trying to move bed covers, or even turning a page in a book. I’m giving it a year from the injury to heal before I resort to medical help. I have a wrist brace. However I fail to use it when I should which causes a set back in healing. Need to just wear it all the time.
Best of luck on your healing. Sure takes a long time. I dislocated my shoulder once and it took longer to feel better than my broken ribs did.
I need to peel 6 pounds of sweet potatoes on Thursday. Better get the brace on for that. Or beg my husband to do it.
Hang in there!
Gabapentin is a pain reliever. She wasn’t going to prescribe anything because she knows I don’t like to take medications. It was hurting so bad though I was willing to try them. She said to take at night as they cause drowsiness. My problem was/is the shoulder area. When I would move it, it would catch and snap like a trigger thumb/finger does. After my husband had physical therapy and could start using his legs more to get to a standing position I don’t have to pull him up like I was. I am pretty sure that is what pulled the tendon. Anyway it is a lot better now but still have to be careful.