Ooh, a Shiny New Syndrome....

[davidgillon]

Just back from my outpatients appointment and apparently I have Impingement Syndrome to add to my list, or in other words the rotator cuff in my right shoulder is being irritated when I move my arm. So all the bendies who said 'it's your rotator cuff' were right, but I haven't actually torn it so much as rubbed it the wrong way. Apparently it's very common in hypermobile types.

The good news is I finally found an orthopod at Medway who accepts I'm hypermobile (and I didn't even have to do the foot on forehead party trick to convince him). And because he accepted that, he treated me as knowing what I was talking about when I said the shoulder had subluxed several times. He offered to do a cortisone injection on the spot, but given that it's not as severe as it was several months ago we decided to try physio first and revisit it in 3 months.

The appointment was for 11AM, so I was turning into the hospital car park at 10:50, at which point my phone pinged it had a new text. I left that to check until I had sat down in the very full ortho outpatients area, and when I looked it was a confirmation for my 11:50AM appointment. *Headdesk*.  Fortunately it was the text that was wrong, not my appointment time, and I was seen and on my way home by 10 past.

Glad I concluded it was different to the frozen shoulder I had on the other side three or four years back and not to risk trying the physio I got for that. We'll see what physio have to say when I see them, but I don't know what the physio waiting list is like, or even where I'll get it - the hospital booking system was down so everything was being done by hand and 'you'll get the appointment in the post'.
 

Comments

[kaberett]

... wait can most people not touch their forehead with their foot???

[davidgillon]

Apparently not, weird, huh?!?

(And for clarity to non-bendies, I'm talking sole of foot flat on crown of head)

[nanila]

Hurrah for understanding doctors and helpful diagnoses! Hope the physio helps.

[davidgillon]

Hope the physio arrives before the next appointment!

[jesse_the_k]

Hey! I had impingement syndrome! (Due to a congenital exuberance of bone on the acromium.) Med details: (skip) Surgically removed, made things worse.

[davidgillon]

Ow!

[davidgillon]

Still glad I had this looked at, but apparently my body objects to having my shoulder put through it's range of motion. Ironically I'm mostly feeling it in my other arm, which probably means it's my neck - so currently collared, joy!

'The shoulder-bone's connected to the neck-bone,
the neck bone's connected to the....'