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So, this morning (June 27th, 2009) I woke up to writhing pain in my right wrist around 0630. It hurt so bad in fact that I couldn't go back to sleep by any means and finally made the choice to go to the ER as my normal doctor is unreachable during the weekends to have him look at it and see what was wrong- so off I went.
I got there around 0730 and got myself checked in and into the triage room where they could take blood pressure, etc. and get me setup to head into the actual ER, the entire time I am in excruciating pain that would not permit me to move my fingers, hand, nor wrist without causing more pain.
Finally I get back into my own room in the ER, where I got a very nice RN named Joel. He and I talked about what was going on and what was hurting, etc. Eventually the doctor came in and we talked about the same stuff and he felt around my arm, wrist, hand to find the problem area and try to figure out what the possible problem is. After he took off, Joel came back in and told me I was to be put on Morphine to ease the pain and a liquid form of Ibuprofen to stop any inflammation that might be going on, as well as, having blood drawn for a few tests to see if there was any infection to speak of.
So, I had the blood done, the Ibuprofen was injected, then came a very healthy dose (4mg) of Morphine followed by heading off to get X-rays done to make sure I didn't actually have a broken wrist. After the X-rays, I went back to the room where my wrist was still hurting with any movements and seemed to be a tad better when not moving at all. This led to getting another 2mg of Morphine which helped a bit more but didn't take away all the pain by any means.
Once this was done, the doctor came back in to let me know that my tests came back normal as well as my X-rays and that he thinks that it could be tendinitis and thus prescribed me Vicodin to take as needed and more Ibuprofen to ease any inflammation that may still be there, followed by a wrist brace to prevent any unneeded movement. Following all that, I was let go around 1015 from the ER drugged up quite well and made my way back home.
The end product is that my wrist still hurts like hell, typing with my left hand solo is proving to be a lot of effort and my new set of drugs are proving to once again knock me off my ass without actually tsking care of all the pain as one would hope.
All in all, this sucks and I wanted to let everyone know. Bleh.
So, what's going on with all you guys out there?
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