AllyJay
8 years agoMember
Goopie Me!!!!!
Hi there folks, whinge alert here, but if I can't do that here, where else can I? The latest joy to add to this monumental crapfest, is now two stuffed shoulders. The pectoral muscle on the left side had shortened and turned rigid. And by rigid, I mean iron hard. Much debate amongst all my various ologists about wtf was going on. Top contenders for cause were due to inflammation from massive haematoma on that side after surgery, and connective tissue inflammation as a result of one of my autoimmune diseases, namely scleroderma. At the end of the day, all academic, but the result was the same...very little extended movement, so physio now added to my list of people to see and things to do. Please note, I had been religiously doing all my excercises, including the fingers up the wall, but the whole shebang just got tighter and tighter. So physio started and then hydrotherapy as well. Deep massage to the muscle was also done, which also left me bruised and sore, due to being on Clexane injections twice daily since August last year. That's also a real funfest, my tummy looks like a purple, black, green and yellow mess from the bruising, but I digress....Guess what has happened, now, by dear bosom buddies? The right shoulder is now stuffed. Oh yes, query rotator cuff tear, now excluded, and been told it is adhesive capsulitis, or frozen shoulder. Excruciatingly painful and almost no movement possible beyond a sort of demented penguin flapping of my lower arm. Lifting it away from my side, or trying to get it around the back to wipe my bum, or to dry the dewdrops off my daisy are impossible. So the already crook left arm has to do its best...oooh goopie me!!! (as my two year old grandson says). Cortisone injection into the joint not recommended due to these other conditions as well as risk of bleeding into the joint due to the blood thinners. I'm royally pissed....