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LadyConstanze -> RE: anybody knows about shoulder surgery? (6/10/2016 1:26:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: smartsub10
Sounds like a long-standing problem if you have calcium buildup in the socket. From a pathology point of view (my specialty) I'm thinking it's the soft tissue such as tendons or synovium that has calcified a bit from chronic irritation.
In any event, I'm very confident that keyhole surgery either to "rinse out" or debride the calcified tissue would be in order. Open surgery is highly unlikely unless the specialist finds that the joint capsule is messed up and he/she needs to repair it. Doesn't sound like that, though.
As a veteran of multiple orthopedic surgeries myself I can confidently say that post-op "discomfort" is total bullshit. It hurts like a motherfucker!! Demand powerful narcotics!! [:D]
Good luck. Hope you're well soon.
Actually the calcium deposit wasn't in the socket to start with, we have some kind of a lodger, a nice guy who is homeless, but he is a bit of a hoarder, and for some obscure reason he brought old tires into the backyard, I managed to fall over them, wretch the arm out of the socket while trying to break the fall, when it slipped back in (annoying sound it makes, a horrible POP) the calcium deposit seems to have gotten pushed in and trapped between ball and socket, there was a discussion of dislocating it again and trying to push it out, but all the orthopedic guys went "Well, in theory, but we're not going to attempt that..."
Funny thing is I put medical leeches on and thought they are a bit of a failure, as the only managed to kill the pain for about 3 hours, usually the pain relief works for weeks on end, months even... However the morphine they gave me wore off after an hour...
At the moment I'm on 5 different pain killers, though the tramadol they give me and which I should take every 4 hours I prefer to only take when I'm in real agony, as it makes me feel seasick and zombified. I tend to have really odd reactions to painkillers, most have terrible side effects, some simply don't work and they managed to track it down to a genetic problem, some my body refuses to absorb and some have the synapses misfiring, I'm kind of lucky to have a fairly high pain threshold, or I'd be really effed up. Morphium works but has me puking, codeine kinda works, however co codamol sends me loopy, as in panic attacks and manic twitches, MJ is not legal in the UK (not that it would bother me much) but I can't inhale it or I get asthma and again sickness, eating it is difficult to dose and again, nausea... With novocaine just absolutely no reaction... As my doctor joked, I just don't have it in me to be a real addict... The last few times I popped the shoulder out, they put it back in without painkillers, because I said I rather deal with the short pain than the after effects of the pain killers. A few minutes of agony versus days of puking...
It makes surgeries and injuries kinda "interesting" but not in a good way...
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