"Fall Fast Asleep Before One Verse is Read..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Got the results back from the x-rays -- apparently I don't have arthritis, but my hip sockets are shaped funny (shallow), and the doctor thinks the ball joints of my legs are rubbing against them, especially while I'm sleeping, hence the hip pain. It's actually kind of cool -- I am finding diagrammes online to show me what it looks like. I guess it would be a sort of asymmetric incongruity? Fun!

She suggested physical therapy, but I don't really have the time or money, so she also suggested taking ibuprofen before I go to sleep as a preventative.

Also, apparently, I can expect to have reasonably significant arthritis by the time I hit forty. So that's fun too.

Therapy at one (lots of issues to discuss there) and then I will finish this goddamn paper.

Comments

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

Sympathy. My joints are dodgy and I am in perpetual physio, and thank god I live in a decent Communist country or I couldn't bloody afford it either.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I was telling my friend Arielle about it and she went "...so you have hip dysplasia. You're like my dog!" It's not very severe, though.

[azurai.livejournal.com]

Joint problems are sucky. my body has random pains all the time, not just in my joints, but because they're so inconsistent going to the doctor is pointless. Still, at least you don't have arthritis right NOW. not that having a forecast of getting arthritis by the time you're forty is any better, but. *shrug*

[azurai.livejournal.com]

did I mention that I love your heart icon? ♥ anatomy~

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I love it toooo. It is so cool.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I have a few friends with juvie arthritis, so honestly, I'm just incredibly grateful that I don't have to deal with the problem right now. By the time I'm forty hopefully I'll be better equipped to handle things, in terms of having the time and resources to address things. So there's that.

Honestly, the random pains thing sounds worse, because then you don't know exactly what it is. D: