Author Topic: Re: You know when Superman goes flying through the air with his arms out in front? (Read 14773 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #50 on:** 21 March, 2012, 09:53:51 pm »

Good that you could ride into the wind without crying, even if the rest of your post is written in Latin!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #51 on:** 21 March, 2012, 10:01:28 pm »

Marcus et Flavius sub arbore sedent.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #52 on:** 21 March, 2012, 10:04:39 pm »

Marcus ate flavours in a sub, a bore said it.

LindaG · « **Reply #53 on:** 22 March, 2012, 07:59:02 am »

kay eye ess ess eye enn jee

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #54 on:** 18 April, 2012, 09:35:40 pm »

I'm feeling really fed up of this now. The acute pain is all gone, I'm commuting by bike every day and doing shorter visits by bike, and I've been doing yoga and pilates once or twice a week each since the Commie Pool reopened, within my limitations (I can't sit cross-legged for more than about a minute before it gets too sore). But the achey discomfort isn't vanishing, sitting on a saddle is becoming more and more painful (I had to get off and push tonight, and there wasn't even a headwind), I've had some sciatic pain (might be related to the pilates, sometimes that can irritate the sciatic nerve) and tonight I can't find a comfy sitting position at all. I wish my physio appointment would hurry up.

Jacomus · « **Reply #55 on:** 19 April, 2012, 10:16:09 am »

Quote from: Kirst on 18 April, 2012, 09:35:40 pm

I'm feeling really fed up of this now. The acute pain is all gone, I'm commuting by bike every day and doing shorter visits by bike, and I've been doing yoga and pilates once or twice a week each since the Commie Pool reopened, within my limitations (I can't sit cross-legged for more than about a minute before it gets too sore). But the achey discomfort isn't vanishing, sitting on a saddle is becoming more and more painful (I had to get off and push tonight, and there wasn't even a headwind), I've had some sciatic pain (might be related to the pilates, sometimes that can irritate the sciatic nerve) and tonight I can't find a comfy sitting position at all. I wish my physio appointment would hurry up.

I hope that you feel mended soon, Kirst.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #56 on:** 08 May, 2012, 03:41:00 pm »

I should really ask the mods to separate out the injury-specific posts in this thread to a new thread in Health & Fitness.

Saw the specialist ortho physio today, who says I need to go back to the Infirmary. She thinks the fracture might not have united. So she's referring me back to the Infirmary.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #57 on:** 22 May, 2012, 05:09:52 pm »

I have my ortho appointment - the letter arrived today. Monday 28th. According to my friend who works in orthopaedics, my allocated consultant is an arrogant cock.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #58 on:** 22 May, 2012, 05:12:57 pm »

Does it make me A Very Bad Person that a part of me would really really like to be a fly on that wall......

TheLurker · « **Reply #59 on:** 23 May, 2012, 08:04:14 am »

Quote from: Kirst on 22 May, 2012, 05:09:52 pm

...my allocated consultant is an arrogant cock.

MrsLurker's experience of consultants (of either sex) would suggest this is the norm. Many seem to have some sort of god complex, although the problem is most noticable in the middle aged and older male variant.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #60 on:** 23 May, 2012, 08:45:23 am »

I have worked with too many and been out with so many* that they don't intimidate me, and no nonsense will be stood.

*one

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #61 on:** 25 May, 2012, 11:44:36 pm »

There's an orthopaedic surgeon at the Infirmary who lost 12 stone a few years ago by cycling and a gastric band. He's the chair of CTC Scotland and we follow each other on twitter. We were having a discussion earlier and I mentioned my appointment on Monday, and he's offered to see me instead of the clinic I should be seen by. I don't know how I get moved from the other list to his but it'd be good to be seen by someone who gets cycling. Although I think his specialism might be hand surgery. *dilemma*

andrewc · « **Reply #62 on:** 25 May, 2012, 11:51:54 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 25 May, 2012, 11:44:36 pm

There's an orthopaedic surgeon at the Infirmary who lost 12 stone a few years ago by cycling and a gastric band. He's the chair of CTC Scotland and we follow each other on twitter. We were having a discussion earlier and I mentioned my appointment on Monday, and he's offered to see me instead of the clinic I should be seen by. I don't know how I get moved from the other list to his but it'd be good to be seen by someone who gets cycling. Although I think his specialism might be hand surgery. *dilemma*

Do you want his hands on your hips ?

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #63 on:** 26 May, 2012, 12:09:14 am »

Turns out he's a different team, but he's happy to pop in and consult if asked. I doubt I'd be seen by the consultant anyway, it's usually the reg/senior reg who does the actual seeing of people, so I'll mention he's offered.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #64 on:** 28 May, 2012, 11:23:47 am »

Well, that was productive. *sigh* Was seen by the consultant I was supposed to be seen by, he said "I think you need an arthroscopy but first we'll get you X-rayed." So I went off to Xray, had my dose of radiation, and then when I came back through instead of him, I was called in by the cycling surgeon. He showed me the MRI and the fracture site which is really high up in the pubic ramus, right in the joint. He says keep active, keep on doing yoga and pilates, but short distances only on the bike, and he's referring me for arthroscopy. They think it might be a cartilage issue. Luckily, the hip surgeon who does the arthroscopies is a cyclist too, did the Etape.

Cycling holiday is out for this year.

Cycling anything more than short distances is out too.

clarion · « **Reply #65 on:** 28 May, 2012, 11:25:53 am »

But if it means you can get back to it in the long run, it's better than going mad now and breaking yourself.

GWS.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #66 on:** 28 May, 2012, 12:29:06 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 28 May, 2012, 11:25:53 am

But if it means you can get back to it in the long run, it's better than going mad now and breaking yourself.

GWS.

Exactly this. And at least you are getting it properly looked at, which is The Right Thing To Do.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #67 on:** 28 May, 2012, 12:32:36 pm »

I've just been googling hip arthroscopy. Looks like I can expect at least a couple of weeks on crutches afterwards.

RJ · « **Reply #68 on:** 28 May, 2012, 12:47:52 pm »

Sounds Ouch (with a capital O).

But - wot clarion and CrinklyLion said. Fingers crossed ...

matthew · « **Reply #69 on:** 28 May, 2012, 12:53:20 pm »

Let me know how you get on, I'm likely to get an invite from the Orthopedic hip specialist for similar treatment to tidy a tear in the cartilage. I'm just hoping the notchiness developing in my left hip is not the early signs of the same issue developing on the other side.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #70 on:** 28 May, 2012, 09:55:40 pm »

I've just had a long chat with a friend of mine who is an OT in elective orthopaedics and knows the surgeon well. Regardless of what the surgeon does during the arthroscopy, I can expect at least 6-8 weeks of what he calls protected flat foot weightbearing on crutches post-op, and perhaps longer if he does a procedure which needs longer healing time. No hip precautions as such in terms of range of movement, although some hip flexion might be painful. The surgeon is very keen on patients maintaining as much normal function as possible, so he won't be recommending sitting at home and watching Jeremy Kyle, but there's absolutely no way I'll be able to manage my own job on crutches, so I foresee a temporary posting to a desk job. Oh, and the good news is, he usually does his scopes under local and sedation, or spinal and sedation, so I almost certainly won't be getting general anaesthesia, which is a great relief to me as I have a real fear of it.

andrewc · « **Reply #71 on:** 28 May, 2012, 10:08:54 pm »

That sounds pretty crappy

Sending you virtual chocolates & flowers.

GWS

barakta · « **Reply #72 on:** 29 May, 2012, 01:31:58 am »

Ugh at arthroscopy there but glad you won't have a GA if that's not your bag (I'd take the GA and run like hell from sedation which I refuse to have). Hope they sort it soon and the recovery time isn't too horrid.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #73 on:** 23 August, 2012, 12:05:52 pm »

*sigh*

Saw the hip surgeon today. Had yet more x-rays done. Pretty sure my insides are glowing with the amount of pelvic x-rays I've had in the past 8 months.

The surgeon says that the fall I had has caused compression damage to the medial surfaces of the ball and socket of the hip joint (the acetabulum and the femoral head). He does not feel that arthroscopy or other surgical intervention would be helpful at this stage. He is referring me for steroid injection right into the hip joint which will either clear the pain up completely, clear it up for a few months or make no difference at all. He also says it is almost certain I will have osteoarthritis in that joint in the next 5-10 years. That's not a surprise to me really; I was expecting to hear it.

I have to lose weight which will help to delay and reduce the future damage, keep active, and try the injections, but I will probably have pain forever, and a hip replacement will be required eventually. My excess weight isn't helping, but given that my other hip looks normal, all of the damage can be attributed to the fall.

*gloomy*

Wowbagger · « **Reply #74 on:** 23 August, 2012, 12:54:39 pm »

I'm sorry to hear that, Eccentrica. Let's hope the steroids do the trick. Although my arthritis is of a very different variety from that which you seem resigned to, on the occasion that my other drugs weren't working (when I was on quinine, basically) I had a three general steroid injections (i.e. not in the joint because it was lots of joints) over the summer and each of them worked very well for a couple of months and then, for the third month, the pain returned.

Since my drugs were changed and I'm on methotrexate my pain has pretty well disappeared, although some of my joints, notably my left ankle, remain swollen to one degree or another.

Author Topic: Re: You know when Superman goes flying through the air with his arms out in front? (Read 14773 times)

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