Re: muscle pain between the ribs

[Guest guest]

Wow, Aazari. Thanks for all of the info. I think the last one is probably my

problem. Once a dr gets in there and moves stuff around, it's never quite

the same again!

Maralee

>^..^<

What you're getting as rib pain is probably a " phantom sensation " . It's not

unusual for the places where body parts have been removed to have odd pains,

tingling and/or throbbing. In some people it fades over time. But I've

talked to amputees who are still having them 10-15 years after losing a

limb.

[Guest guest]

> Once a dr gets in there and moves stuff around, it's never quite

> the same again!

>

> Maralee

> >^..^<

Ain't that the truth! The one part I've had to have operated on (other than

the dental surgery for the tooth) has been all kinds of messed up since.

They went in to stitch up a tear in the rotator cuff in my left shoulder.

They found a horn-like growth of bone on the end of my clavicle and cut it

off while they were in there. (Now, mind you, this growth on the bone had

caused no problems at all. It just didn't belong there according to the

ortho doc.) Ever since then, I occasionally get the funkiest sensation of

something burrowing through the skin back there and dripping/falling down

the back of my shoulder from the incision site. My friends thought I was

wigging out because for the first two weeks I swore they'd left something in

there and it was tearing its way out or something. So of course, I'd have

them check my back and nothing was there. Only thing I can figure is the

ortho doc accidentally clipped a nerve or something. And the joint has never

regained full mobility, either. It's still super stiff on upswing and cross

motion despite quite some time in rehab.

I'm loathe to let them even -think- of resurfacing my wearing knee joints.

I've already got a lesion on the right femur and they were saying all they

would be able to do is replace the lining of the joint which isn't always

too successful. In fact, more than one doc told me they can actually cause

worse trouble going in and trying to fix joints like that. So I just pop

Ibuprofen to try to get the swell out of the joints when the weather's

shifting.

Aazari

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