My pain is too vague

[naomi_jay]

So I went to the physiotherapist yesterday and spent 45 minutes answering seemingly random questions. It's like, I went there because my arm hurts ALL THE FREAKING TIME, and she was asking me if I'd ever had cancer. Stuff like that just freaks me out. I'm too neurotic for it. I'm all like, "no, why? Is it arm cancer?"

Then she did a load of stretching exercises with me to try and pinpoint exactly what the problem is. Sort of moving my arm around and saying "does this hurt? Does it hurt now? How about now? More? Better? Worse?" And me going, "yes. Yes. Yes! YES! YES THAT HURTS MORE!"

She came to the conclusion that the problem crossed all my joints and it wasn't clear where the source of my pain was. Really, if she'd listened to my "it hurts everywhere" mantra, we would have saved a lot of time. I have to go back next week for more tests. Until then she's suggested I try to avoid using my wrist brace because it might lead to loss of movement in my wrist. So now I'm paranoid about getting carpal tunnel syndrome. And all the stretching we did yesterday just makes my arm ache like hell today.

Comments

[skarrah.livejournal.com]

Physiotherapists are big waste of time and money in my experience. They manipulate the heck out of the ailing body part, make it hurt twice as much as it used to, then tell you there's not really much they can do. Grr.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Well luckily this is all on the NHS, but I do think you're right. I had physio for the same problem two years ago and it didn't work then, so I have no reason to believe it will now.

[skarrah.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, if it's on the NHS you are doomed! Lmao.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yup. And since nobody is taking my request for a robotic arm seriously...