Diagnosis?
[ rakaur on Tue Feb 26 at 04:26 PM // category: drugs, health, life, pain ]
I have a second appointment with my pain management doctor on Friday. I’m not really holding my breath, because so far he’s done exactly dick. Two months of physical therapy and my PT today said she thinks it’s ankylosing spondylitis, which is something I’ve been thinking for a month now. I have to wonder if me and a medical professional thinking it at the same time has any meaning.
The last three days have been torture. Constant, unrelenting pain all the way up my spine, especially my neck. For hours I just writhe around in pain. The pain itself doesn’t even seem that bad, in terms of intensity. It’s some other… property… of the pain that causes me to be overwhelmed by it. That’s why I have such a difficult time assigning a pain score. The pain itself isn’t that bad, but my ability to deal with it is nonexistent? I don’t know. I’ve given up trying to describe it.
If my doctor doesn’t do anything for me on Friday I’m going to ask to see a rheumatologist. Even if it is AS, there’s nothing I can do about it. TNF inhibitors are $18k a year… that’s more than I make. DAMRDs aren’t cheap either, and I have no idea what their efficacy is.
Sigh.
-- rakaur // 2008.02.26 @ 04:26 PM
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