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[frustratedearthmother]

DH had prolotherapy on a slipped rib after a major car accident. They said it might take a series or one might do it. One injection did the trick for him. The only other way to stop a slipped rib is to wire it to the sternum - uh NO!

I've got a split tendon in my ankle and guess what the recommended treatment is? Surgery, of course. And my answer is no. I can't do 4-6 months of recovery. Who can when you live the lifestyle we do? I'm going to try prolotherapy on this foot before I ever consider surgery.

 

[farmerjan]

DH had prolotherapy on a slipped rib after a major car accident. They said it might take a series or one might do it. One injection did the trick for him. The only other way to stop a slipped rib is to wire it to the sternum - uh NO!

I've got a split tendon in my ankle and guess what the recommended treatment is? Surgery, of course. And my answer is no. I can't do 4-6 months of recovery. Who can when you live the lifestyle we do? I'm going to try prolotherapy on this foot before I ever consider surgery.

Great to hear that the prolo worked for your DH. Glad to know that there are people who have heard of it/ used it. Good luck with the split tendon. I am having the PRP done on the ankle, and the knee on the same leg that is not that bad yet. The knee on the other leg is pretty bad, partially from a car wreck in 07 but after 2 times doing both legs, it is just too much for me to try to get around. I need one "not so bad" leg to be able to hobble around on. So that knee is going to wait a bit before I do more. Also have both shoulders starting to give me some problems, and surgery is NOT in the future because I have yet to find anyone who has had rotator cuff type surgery that has been more than so-so successful. The dr. doing the PRP told my woman dr. when she went up for some "work" on her back, that he didn't know how I was even walking. So I know that it is going to take some time, as he said I didn't get this way overnight, it wasn't going to get fixed overnight...I did talk to one lady there that said she had one treatment on her knee and it was like a miracle, but that her friend had to have 4 before she saw any results....so I am trying to be patient....

 

[Bruce]

If the Dr. doesn't know how you are even walking, you are clearly one tough cookie. I suspect you will fare better than those that "baby" things too much. For example my understanding of knee replacement surgery is that you have to suck up the "after" pain if you want to have decent range of motion. If you don't push past the ouch then the ouch and through the ouch, you won't have near the mobility that is possible and close to what you had back when you had healthy knees.

Good luck with the PRP!

 

[farmerjan]

If the Dr. doesn't know how you are even walking, you are clearly one tough cookie. I suspect you will fare better than those that "baby" things too much. For example my understanding of knee replacement surgery is that you have to suck up the "after" pain if you want to have decent range of motion. If you don't push past the ouch then the ouch and through the ouch, you won't have near the mobility that is possible and close to what you had back when you had healthy knees.

Good luck with the PRP!

Yes, I have talked to several people who say that the rehab pain to get the range of motion is pretty bad. I guess it can be worse than what I have tried to endure, but in the last 6 months or so there are days that I can barely hobble around. It hurts terribly to stand for more than 15 minutes and I get so stiff in the knee and ankle joints that I dread trying to move. It's been a bit of a battle. I guess that I am tough enough, I sure don't want to be considered a "baby" but there are days that I just want to sit and never move. And of course every dr. has told me that I am not helping myself by continuing my job but there is such a fine line right now with the health insurance/disability ins. situation... Oh well, you do what you have to do...

 

[CntryBoy777]

Alrighty then!!....we'll try to get 'Back on Track' here...

You might be Country if...

Ya have to get in your vehicle to Drive to the neighbors just to Talk to them...

Everything on the plate before you came from your Farm...except for the Salt and Pepper

Ya can catch Fish without a Rod and Reel...or a Bobber

 

[Bruce]

You use your teeth?? Bobbing for fish?

 

[SavannahLeigh]

You bring your goat inside to hang out.
You wear garbage clothes coz you're always mucking around in animal mud/feces
Your favorite store is TSC

 

[farmerjan]

on the favourite store being TSC...or the local feed co-op store..

Or your social life is going to the local auction barn for a special cow sale....

Or a vacation is going to visit family and allowing several extra days that you did not tell them about so you can stop at several interesting farms and auction sites on the way home...

 

[NH homesteader]

My husband and I never had a honeymoon. I just got on the waiting list for a spring buckling that is 3 hours away, so I told him we could take a "honeymoon" on the way to get him lol

 

[Green Acres Farm]

When your vacations are going to pick up goats.