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Update on my pain
4 years ago
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It has been a rollercoaster. The last journal I made was the day I went to get my tattoo updated... and because of that I couldn't take advil until after the update was finished. I was in agony while in that chair, and just because of my shoulder. The tattoo pain was nothing.
My artist heavily suggested I see a doctor, as well as get my own sling for my arm. I then was planning to do so, but when I went to see my dad and step mom in person they told me that I should NOT get a sling and that I should be trying to move around my arm, and that there's no need to see a doctor.
I felt so confused cuz I was told completely different things by two different people. But... trying to go with what my step mom said/suggested.
I had been dealing with strong pain (except when I'd have advil it would numb it a bit) but this morning I think I may have found what I need. For the last two days I had tried to ice the area, but that didn't seem to help and it kept on hurting.
But today I put on a heat pad for over an hour and afterwards a bunch of the pain subsided for certain things. For example, when I drove to my office (45 minutes away) I wasn't able to lift my arm to do the turn signals without pain, but after the heat therapy and driving back home I noticed I had NO pain doing those same actions. I do still have pain if I move my arm in certain ways, but that was a big difference for me!
So I'll continue doing that every few hours.
When my arm has been okay enough I've been doing a little bit of personal art. If things continue to slowly get better I should be able to do a little bit of comm work on Saturday and Sunday!
I keep being so relieved the pain is in my left arm and not my right. I can still do a bunch of things, though some things I can't without my left. I can at least do some art when my left arm isn't in pain at rest!
Things are finally looking up again. :3 I hope I can do my courier job tomorrow!
My artist heavily suggested I see a doctor, as well as get my own sling for my arm. I then was planning to do so, but when I went to see my dad and step mom in person they told me that I should NOT get a sling and that I should be trying to move around my arm, and that there's no need to see a doctor.
I felt so confused cuz I was told completely different things by two different people. But... trying to go with what my step mom said/suggested.
I had been dealing with strong pain (except when I'd have advil it would numb it a bit) but this morning I think I may have found what I need. For the last two days I had tried to ice the area, but that didn't seem to help and it kept on hurting.
But today I put on a heat pad for over an hour and afterwards a bunch of the pain subsided for certain things. For example, when I drove to my office (45 minutes away) I wasn't able to lift my arm to do the turn signals without pain, but after the heat therapy and driving back home I noticed I had NO pain doing those same actions. I do still have pain if I move my arm in certain ways, but that was a big difference for me!
So I'll continue doing that every few hours.
When my arm has been okay enough I've been doing a little bit of personal art. If things continue to slowly get better I should be able to do a little bit of comm work on Saturday and Sunday!
I keep being so relieved the pain is in my left arm and not my right. I can still do a bunch of things, though some things I can't without my left. I can at least do some art when my left arm isn't in pain at rest!
Things are finally looking up again. :3 I hope I can do my courier job tomorrow!
But if the pain comes back stronger then for sure I'll see a doctor... to at the very least for them to figure out what happened!
But if it's still bad in a week or so I'll do it.