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'.