Can't get in to see Ortho Surgeon (long)

January 30, 2007

Hello all,

I'm am so depressed and frustrated right now. I need to vent! I don't

know what else to do.

I got my MRI reports back and the cyst in my left shoulder has grown

to 5 cm. (from around 2-3). My pain in getting worse daily. Besides

the general deep ache and burning pain from the labrel tears and

cyst, I am having incredable nerve pain down my arm and now up my

neck into my jaw area. Plus all the tingling and burning nerve pain

already in my shoulder area.

I went to see an Ortho Dr. who basically said my problem was " over

his head " and referred me to another Dr. in the same clinic that

specializes in shoulders, the ONLY one in town and the best.

Thats all good. The only problem is I can't get in until Feb. 21st.

My Rhuemy said " oh, thats not too far off " . Yeah, right! She isn't

the one in constant pain that is not being treated. The Ortho Dr.

told me that any kind of injections would not help me,nor was he

willing to give pain meds. So what now?

I do have a pain Dr. but I only saw her once, since she wanted to do

injections and then her inept staff could not even set up the time

with the out-patient clinic. The out patient clinic called me and

yelled at me about the Pain clinic. That doesn't make me feel very

confident about her. I'm very close to calling and making an appt. at

this point. But who knows how long that would be.

I'm going to my PCP and hoping he will have sympathy on me or send me

in the right direction. My Neurologist is no help and seems to think

throwing nerve pain meds at me that make me crazy is " all he can do " .

Is that really all he can do? Really? I just have a hard time

believing that for some reason. Can't they decompress the nerves

somehow or I've read where people get the nerve endings deadened

(embalism?)?

I did something to my shoulder this morning and now its worse than

ever. At work, I have to get my sick time over 40 hours or they send

out a negative letter that goes in your file. If I don't miss through

the end of this month I will have 42 hours. It just sucks that I have

to be stressed about that as well and come to work no matter how much

I hurt. I'm thankful for the job, don't get me wrong, but I just want

to cry right now. Now I'm off to my Social Research class...it is

actually a release to think about something else.

Thanks for listening and any suggestions would be great.

Caitlin

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