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Aug. 10th, 2011 04:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I haven't posted in forever, I know. Long story short - My body's been going down the shitter recently.
Back in March I had some shoulder pain. I thought nothing of it, and eventually it went away. About a month and a half ago my upper back started hurting. I took muscle relaxers for about a week, and eventually it went away.
And then, oh, three weeks ago, things went to hell. My shoulder decided it wanted to FUCK ME OVER. I have no real idea what's wrong with it (other than knowing it's something with the rotator cuff). What I DO know is that I'm in pain almost constantly. I have good days, where it only aches a bit, and hurts if I move it too fast or too awkwardly. And then I have the bad days where I can't move it at all, and the pain is near excruciating (and I deal with pain really well). It's getting progressively worse - I'm losing functionality of my whole arm. The pain is radiating, and my entire arm is extremely weak. I'm also exhausted all the time because constant pain = fucking tiring.
I'm doing physical therapy, and I have to go see the Orthopedist in a few days. Yay.
I'm in great health - I never get sick, all my organs work beautifully, and I have no deficiencies of any kind. But my joints hate me. Always have. This is the worst though. It's disabling me (preventing me from doing my job, even), and I can't deal with it. So I bitch and moan on twitter, grit my teeth, and try to work through the pain, because it's what I do. But I'm not exactly in the best mood ever, and half the time I can't concentrate on anything besides "OMG PAIN", so I've gotten dreadfully boring. Thus no posts. Nothing worth saying.
Annnyway, that concludes the lovely "Joints are horrible fucktards bent on destroying your life" part of the show. Please exit to your right.
Back in March I had some shoulder pain. I thought nothing of it, and eventually it went away. About a month and a half ago my upper back started hurting. I took muscle relaxers for about a week, and eventually it went away.
And then, oh, three weeks ago, things went to hell. My shoulder decided it wanted to FUCK ME OVER. I have no real idea what's wrong with it (other than knowing it's something with the rotator cuff). What I DO know is that I'm in pain almost constantly. I have good days, where it only aches a bit, and hurts if I move it too fast or too awkwardly. And then I have the bad days where I can't move it at all, and the pain is near excruciating (and I deal with pain really well). It's getting progressively worse - I'm losing functionality of my whole arm. The pain is radiating, and my entire arm is extremely weak. I'm also exhausted all the time because constant pain = fucking tiring.
I'm doing physical therapy, and I have to go see the Orthopedist in a few days. Yay.
I'm in great health - I never get sick, all my organs work beautifully, and I have no deficiencies of any kind. But my joints hate me. Always have. This is the worst though. It's disabling me (preventing me from doing my job, even), and I can't deal with it. So I bitch and moan on twitter, grit my teeth, and try to work through the pain, because it's what I do. But I'm not exactly in the best mood ever, and half the time I can't concentrate on anything besides "OMG PAIN", so I've gotten dreadfully boring. Thus no posts. Nothing worth saying.
Annnyway, that concludes the lovely "Joints are horrible fucktards bent on destroying your life" part of the show. Please exit to your right.