It’s a Pain!
Last weekend I buggered up something in my left leg ‘system’.
I’ve been to 2 docs and gotten 4 opinions. Swell!
Ever happened to you?
So, who do you believe?
What’s great is the first doc, my family doc, wants me to get an ultrasound to check out the, hopefully slim, possibility that the problem is due to a wee clot in a deep artery. Booked the ‘doppler’ ultrasound and guess what! Can’t get in till March 3rd. Swell, I says to the booking agent, "I could be dead by then!"
She laughs it off, thinking I’m joking. I’m not, really.
So, what do I do.
Yesterday, the pain is worse, family doc is off… so I go to walk-in clinic, which in my case is a limp in clinic. 🙂
Get to wait an hour. Sitting on a hard bench. Yes bench, not chair. Spend much of the time standing and reading an old Time magazine.
Wait in the exam room 10 minutes. In bounces a young French Canadian doctor. She asks me to lay down on the exam table and has me try various movements. "Does that hurt?" "Try this. Does this hurt?" She gets me to stand up, a fun exercise in itself. And, I try some other moves.
She sketches a picture on the paper covering the exam table. "Here’s the hip bone. Here’s the pubis whatever. Here’s where your abductor tendon attaches. Here’s where it attachs to your leg muscles"
She concludes the problem is an inflammed tendon. And, prescribes an NSAID – non-steroidal Anti-inflamatory.
Off I go. Spend 30 minutes at the drug store waiting for the Rx to be filled.
Go home and collapse. Rest a bit. Eat supper so I can take NSAID.
So, far it ain’t helping.
But, I do like her Dx (that’s med script for diagnosis) better than the others.
I’ll tell you why… later.
