Radiologist++, he seemed to understand that the elbone is connected to the shoulder anatomy which seems to be a radical concept with some clinicians. I advised him that there were elbow MRIs which I'd had to "be rather persuasive" to get shoulder bods to order which he spent some time looking at. I believe I have the short head bit, but not the long head of the biceps tendon... Not sure about the elbow end of it thobut, will ask someone to show me the report next time I'm there which at this rate is next week or 25th Jan...
The idea of a numbered set of photos for the required arm positions was a good one, it meant that despite finding the radiologist difficult to hear (male, Indian, noisy ultrasound unit computer fan) I could work out which number he wanted. Kim signing at me later in the appointment while Radiologist was talking from across the room and with his back to me (bless!) got the point across. Annoyingly the accompanying radiographer who was female and English was also hard to hear cos she spoke really fast and a bit too quietly and gave no pre-amble so I wasn't parsing brilliantly...
Symptoms of a missing biceps tendon in the literature match mine - pain, difficulty lying on arm, instability - all a massive yep. Reaching up and tilting a mug to my face also painful. Have resorted to evil environment killing a straw to reduce tilting #NeedMyTea and that is helping...
Oh well, appt with arm/elbow bods in mid-March... Only taken them since October to get that appt through... July 2018 since I asked for shoulders AND elbows to be looked at cos they're all a "bit fucked"... Getting there, slowly.
