Posted: 3/2/2017 9:43:56 AM EDT
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Is arthritis supposed to feel like your muscle/ligament is being torn off of your bone?
Doc told me the other day that I have arthritis in my right elbow right behind the tip (giggity). It hurts to the touch, when I flex my bicep it pulls back there and hurts and everything that has to do with pushing or pulling exercises (bench press/pull ups etc) is excruciating. Seems like more than arthritis. Just accept I'm old, or get MRI and see if anything else is kaput? |
| Injuries can present in weird ways. In early January, I was having recurring hamstring pain. Finally went to a family doc who agreed it was probably hamstrings. Got a steroid pack, told to call back in a week if it didn't get better. It got worse so they referred me to an orthopedic. His exam painfully found a torn meniscus. MRI confirmed meniscus damage on the front, significant tear on the back, arthritis, partially torn ACL from a sprain I had last year, floating debris, and inflamed tendons that were giving me the hamstring pain. |
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I have tendonitis on both the outside and inside of my elbow (tennis/golf elbow I guess) but never heard of it being on the very back point of the elbow. UPDATE: BURSITIS. YOU MOTHER FUCKER. This is the whore that hurts. http://img.webmd.com/dtmcms/live/webmd/consumer_assets/site_images/media/medical/hw/h9991547_002.jpg Had that that in both elbows and ended up having surgery on both. No more Bursas, no more Bursitis. |
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I had achilles tendinitis for well over a year. I tried everything. Last ditch effort, doc suggested PRP injection. My insurance didn't cover it. If I recall correctly it was about $700. It is considered experimental.
I thought it didn't work; however, I remember waking up one day and I was not limping anymore.  I guess the best way to describe it is it helps your body heal itself. It doesn't happen over night. I'd say it took a good 5-6 months after the shot before I realized I just wasn't limping and in pain anymore. Very gradual healing, the way it should have happened naturally, but didn't... until the injection.
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I've had this pain in my elbow for a few years, recently since my divorce I've hit the gym HAM and I've been just deteriorating from going so hard (giggity) lol. My right elbow though, it's been getting worse and worse, and just like everything else I just push through the pain to either A.) Get the result I want or 2.) Get to the point where I can't do shit.
#2 has been achieved. I really don't want any kind of surgery option. My ortho yoo-hoos wants to put a scope in my knee because of my botched knee surgery in 2011 was all kinds of fucked up, but I've declined. I really don't want surgery on anything. Ever. Might fix stuff, I don't know. I'm fussy about it. Bad experiences and all. |