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May. 6th, 2013 @ 12:55 pm 
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... way behind on reading journals. I was keeping up, but there was a whole thing, that upset me, and I was all journal-aversion again for a while. If I loved you before, I totally still love you.
I had an MRI last week. It was distinctly painful, because the problem being investigated is my knee, and a major symptom of the problem with my knee is that I can't lie on my back with my leg straight, it makes my knee hurt, and the MRI was 20 minutes of lying on my back with my leg straight and a sandbag on my shin to hold it still. Which also means it was not even just straight, probably, it will have been bending slightly backwards, because I am mildly hypermobile and my knees bend slightly backwards and always have.
And I had to pay $95. After pension discount etc.
After the MRI I had a pelvic x-ray. The tech asked if this was checking on my hip replacement(s). I'm 32. (Also, the initial setup was done by a trainee, who was very nice, but I had to tell her that no, I didn't mind if she pressed more firmly locating my bones, because her carefully gentle touches tickled. She had made sure it was okay to touch me at all first, that was fine, but I hate being tickled and also it kinda makes it hard to hold still.)
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I wish they had better things in place for tests for hypermobile people. Don has the same problems. :(
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May 8th, 2013 02:25 am (UTC) |
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I recall you mentioning a couple of incidents with that. It's sort of unbelievable the things that have happened to him.
I'm fortunate, in that my hypermobility is *usually* not something that causes me pain issues (in fact, it's probable that it's saved me a few times from breaking something, allowing me to strain muscles instead). The only time I've had a doctor deliberately overbend my joint was the doctor explaining to me (when I was about twenty-seven) that I am hypermobile.
I somehow didn't know until then. The doctor I was talking to had started out thinking I was faking injury for insurance purposes. He had suggested I'd been poking/manipulating my shoulder to aggravate it in the waiting room, based on my skin being all bright red. I told him it was because he'd been pokking it, he said that wasn't enough to cause that much redness, I had to show how reactive my skin is by running my finger down my arm and showing him the red line that flared behind it.
Doctors are kind of stupid sometimes.
(Of course, then we had the conversation that went, "And you're double-jointed." "No I'm not." Which didn't go flawlessly.)
I love when doctors assume you must be lying. Because, you know, those big disability cheques. I don't even. *sigh*
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