No it’s not another Da Vinci or name for Quentin Tarantino or any of his movies for that matter, it’s what I have for my wrist. I’ve been having this pain in my wrist for the last 2 weeks and it seems to have gotten worst. So I went to see my doctor about it and immediately he said my wrist is swollen (slightly but I could hardly tell) and that I had De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis. Seems it’s pretty common if you do a lot of wrist flicking / bending such as fishing, carrying heavy stuff with wrist turns or carrying your little ones. I probably got mine from the last reason. So what he said then was I needed an injection (what they term a Cortisone Injection as that is the most effective way to treat it. Medication generally would not work. I had heard from my wife about a friend who also had to have a wrist injection and it was suppose to hurt like hell. I WAS WORRIED !!! So I prep myself for the injection, the doctor called in his nurse to assist which kind of made me even more worried, since it seems they probably are going to restraint me if I start screaming like a lunatic. There are basically a few things in the world that can make a grown man cry one of it would be injections the other being a visit to the Dentist. The injection was to the vein where the swelling was, whatever the doctor was saying at this point I kind of shut off as I was more worried about the pain of the injection. So he took my wrist and found the spot and then he did warn me that the initial breakage of the skin would be painful after that as he administered the fluid it will hurt again as the veins expand. But surprisingly I felt no pain at all even from the poking of the needle to the administering of the medication. Soon it was all over and I was relieved. I guess maybe it was due to the skill of the physician more so than any other thing that made the injection bearable and not only that but one of the least painful injections that I have ever encountered.
No comments:
Post a Comment