Well time for an update. I have covered this in other threads but my left wrist is giving me issues, and I really can’t play long scale anymore. And my playing isn’t nearly as good as it was on short scale.
I pulled some strings and got an mri done (the need for mris out here is much greater than number of mris which can be done, so it’s taken 14 months to get in, even with pulling strings).
Well turns out I have a torn ligament, a TFCC (triangular fibrocartilage complex) tear. No fixing the ligament, so next week I go in and get a cortisone shot, and we see how long that is effective. And get a referral to Seattle. Surgery is needed to fuse the bones and get a couple pins to stabilize. That’s probably a few months away.
Hopefully cortisone helps. On the bright side it’s no longer a mystery
The internet says, and you know you can trust the interweb 100%. It says that 12 weeks after the surgery a full recovery is expected. My experience is with surgery you always lose some motion. I’ll play left handed if I have to
I don’t need tons of motion in the wrist, just no more pain
I do. One of the ladies at worked asked me to change the water bottle and the ligament tore when I flipped it over.
Cortisone should help; just don’t let yourself be talked into getting it more often than twice a year and not more then 3-4 times in total. Cortisone will demand a prize for helping out here and now.
The ligament will never heal. It holds some bones in place, and they can fuse them in place, but the ligament itself is toast. Not happy about it to be honest
I hate it and it’s derivatives. I have to use Prednisone when my hearing issue happens and I never do the whole course of it. Even after a couple days of it I can feel its side effects and honestly I might rather to just go deaf. I have seen what it does to people and there is NFW I want even a fraction of that.
I am assuming @Wombat-metal will get a retarded release formulation directly injected into the joint (area). The main side effect is (long-term) damage to tissue.
Orally, initially a large dose then tapered down over a week. I never do the taper down as the initial burst dose usually resolves the issue. I hate to do even that, but the chronic usage over time is what truly destroys you. I have done this three times in two years now and I hate having done even that much.
That is unfortunately the most common treatment… some people fortunately only need one or two shots every couple of years, but sometimes more is needed.
It’s one option for my hearing thing too, but it’s not the preferred option, is definitely the most long-term health impactful option, and the shot has to go in through the eardrum, so no thanks.
My right shoulder is also shot to shit. My bone is calcified from work induced arthritis, so they had to remove part of the bone, as it apparently looked like barnacles on a log of wood. I cannot do the same things I used to do, but you learn to cope and do certain tasks differently. Hang in the @Wombat-metal it will get better.
Really sorry to hear about all that… I hope something can be done to get you some relief.