wee doctor wants me to go for surgery called..Arthroscopic Subacromial Decompression distal clavicle excision

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Yourself

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Perhaps you should ask him why he actually has to do this. Just ask him why the eff is your shoulder hurting in the first place? Does it have extra bone growth or something from a previous injury? If not, why would he have to shave anything off? I dunno about you, but I'd be asking a bucket full of questions.

to be honest i did ask and he told me. but i can't remember heh i also was not paying much attention.

part of it is from previous injury that did not heal right. so it pushing the connection from the coller bone (i think thats what he said) apart from the rest of the shoulder. he said shaving it down would give it more room to rotate wich would ease the pain.

I had it done about 5 years ago. I injured my shoulder diving for a volleyball and the additional scar tissue in my shoulder caused an inpingement. Basically my shoulder couldn't rotate properly anymore, so they shaved the end of that bone off to make more room. They made probably a 3-4" incision vertically on my upper/outer chest, inner shoulder area. The thing that is the most painful is that the incision is through your deltoid muscle and it hurts like a bitch afterwards. Recovery time for me with PT was about 9 months....

Good luck

great great now i feel better..NOT.

sigh. the doctor said the 1st month i would want to kill him. the 2nd month i would just dislike him. the 3rd month i would start to like him and so on heh.

 

[waggy]

update:

UGH. guess i wont be getting it down. I would have to have Physical Therapy 3-4 times a week for like 6 months or so. Well insurance has changed it to you have to pay $20 co-pay per visit. fvck i can't afford that.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
But why do you call him "Wee doctor?" Is he short? Isn't this about your shoulder?

I wondered the same thing.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: MichaelD
But why do you call him "Wee doctor?" Is he short? Isn't this about your shoulder?

I wondered the same thing.

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
But why do you call him "Wee doctor?" Is he short? Isn't this about your shoulder?
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well actaully he is kinda short. about 5'6 or so..


but yea it was sopposed to be more like WEE!! you know having fun. sigh