Treatment Plans

The first time I saw this new doctor, I was excited and nervous. The appointment started out pretty awful but ended on a hopeful note.

In case I neglected this: The current doctors thoughts is that it is inflammation and because of that inflammation I need pain management and then hopefully we can do other things to help it heal with out going under the knife.

Well we got my pain managed. Better than it was, still not 100% and I don't know if I'm growing a tolerance to my medication or what, but at first my pain was at a 2, now I'm up to a 4. Still better than the 7/8 I was at, but I'm concerned.

My doctor wanted to do injections.

Now I'm not opposed to them- because they can be helpful. Its typically a outpatient procedure and people have benefited from it. But I want to avoid them- in fact if the only purpose that it serves is to knock my pain down so we can treat the inflammation via PT- then right now is the time to do PT.

I don't think he is right the more I go along. But I'll play along for now. I think its a waste of time (we are hopping down a bunny trail) But I don't know if I'll go for injections- to me there are other less invasive ways to do the same thing.