My first appointment of the week comes. I literally have spent the weekend in tears. She says again "I really don't know what is normal because you've been in pain so long"
And she has me do these weird routines. That hurt. Shes accelerating not slowing down.
Here is my bind: I have a work place injury. How do you refuse care that potentially could help you when the whole time your provider is being useless?
Well it all works out.
She has me do these moves that use resistance and that I can feel my back hurting. They are to strengthen- not to help the pain- I can see that now. I wish I knew all the names but I don't. The Blonde One encourages me to keep going, keep hurting.
So, I do as best I can. Until the next day, I see my doctor. The case worker is there. We discuss my pain and progress. My doctor pushes injections. I beg them to wait until after Big starts Pre-K so I can have an easier time managing care for them. They give me 3 weeks of PT to get the pain better and then we will see the doctor and schedule the injections.
This brings out some points. My doctor is under the impression that my pain is my Facet Joints- google it, but its a part of the spine. Thing is my pain is not really consistent with that. With facet pain, from what I understand, leaning back will make it worse. Well when my pain got a bit better at the beginning, leaning back pain also went down, but my twisting pain did not go away.
I have my apprehension about the injections. I kind of feel like I'm being shoved in this direction. I think having a bad physical therapist did not help any. After my appointment I made more and was able to switch therapists- thank god. I also did put in a complaint about the Blonde One. I think I could have handled the personality trait issue if my pain wasn't being ignored.
Funny thing is, her last appointment with me she was all happy and attentive. My fingers are crossed that with the new PT that my pain will go away- or diminish. that way we can hold off with the injections.
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