@doreen5471

2 months ago

Thank you so very very much for this informative video. My ortho doctor doesn’t tell me much of anything. Sleeping can be torture. I figured out on my own to prop myself up with pillows. Thank you for the ideas on the grab bar, ladder and wedge pillow! I could never get up out of bed without wincing in pain. I have a dizziness issue where I fall down often and have broken my ribs on both left and right sides several times. Along with falling off a step ladder and literally crushing 8 of my ribs as a 1x1x1 metal pole with through my left side and punctured my lung. I have never been in so much pain in my life. Was in hospital for 10 days! Last week, I was physically attacked/assaulted and body slammed to the ground, once again breaking and bruising my right upper ribs/cartilage under middle of my breast. And I have breast implants so makes it even worse with the added weight as well as trying to ‘hold my ribs’ to make them feel better or put heating pad on to get to right area. A couple of questions, I was always told by my orthopedic doctor to use heating pad (not cold pad). I noticed you said use a cold pad for inflammation. However the thought of using cold seems like it would hurt even worse (at least that initial shock). What are your thoughts on that? Maybe alternate hot and cold? The heat feels good to me but maybe I am making it worse (??) I am taking an anti-inflammatory. Getting pain pills these days is tough. Sad for those of us suffering in pain. He told me to just take Advil or Tylenol until I balked at him and begged for something stronger due to the severe pain I am in. I also later called in for a muscle relaxer as I was having painful sporadic spasms but hate taking them as they make me sleepy. If doctors are aware of how painful rib fractures are, why don’t they at least prescribe 3-5 days worth of prescription pain meds instead of letting us suffer? My other question is, why do you think my ortho doctor never sees my broken bones on the X-Ray? I am 55 year old female with a family history of osteoporosis. Every time I break a rib or other bones (both wrists, shoulder, foot) for that matter. He never ‘sees’ it on the on the X-rays initially. Then when the pain persists and I insist on an MRI weeks later, the broken ribs (or other bones I have broken) show up as in fact broken. Then my doctor ‘craw-fishes’ on why he didn’t see it to begin with on the x-ray initially. He goes back to x-rays and then magically finally sees it! It is really frustrating because I will be in pain for weeks with nothing more than Tylenol before he will at least maybe give me 10-15 Tylenol 3. Which helps some but it still hurts at pain level 7-9 out of 10. I think the medical community has gone too far the opposite way when it comes to prescribing prescription pain medication for people truly in pain after things like a sudden rib fracture. Even if the physician only prescribes enough for a short duration to get the patent past the initial 48-72 hours. Is anyone in the medical community looking at this? Thank you again for this video! I will check out your others!!

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