Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 26)
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GOG440 said:
Is it your shoulder or is it coming from your neck?
IF it is coming from your neck then the drug I am on, Gabapentin is fking marvellous, until I started on it I was in such pain, I didnt sleep for a week, and I had almost no use of my arm at all.
In other news I had my pre op assessment this morning, apart from slightly high blood pressure and the sleep apnoea I am fine!
Sorry for late reply GOG - wasn't ignoring you, Friday just sort of disappeared into a blur of work and pain. From what the doctors/physio tell me the problem is in the shoulder with something causing abnormal amounts of neural tension. I've got some exercises that I do a couple of times a day which have helped quite a bit but every so often I just get too worn down and this results in large amounts of pain in the shoulder and side of the neck and my hand seems to have a lack of circulation resulting in it looking like it belongs in a George Romero film and I lose motion in the fingers. It's generally aggravated by using the computer at a desk (and since I'm a software developer by trade this isn't something I can reasonably avoid).IF it is coming from your neck then the drug I am on, Gabapentin is fking marvellous, until I started on it I was in such pain, I didnt sleep for a week, and I had almost no use of my arm at all.
In other news I had my pre op assessment this morning, apart from slightly high blood pressure and the sleep apnoea I am fine!
About the only other thing I've found that makes any real difference is having a massage to reduce the knotting in the shoulder - I'm kinda overdue to get myself booked in to be honest.
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