I started to experience a sharp pain on my left shoulder early in 2008 and after a little while I decided to see my doctor.
The Dr prescribed some anti-inflamatory and I have to confess that I did not take them as my stomach does not tolerate that well and I thought the pain woulg go away if left alone.
The bad news is that the pain did not go away. I decided them to go see a chiropractor (had never tried one before) who after running me through some tests prescribed eighteen sessions.
Well, after 18 chiropractor sessions and two massages the pain was pretty much the same and the chiropractor told me I sgould try physiotherapy.
I decided to go to the Dr first and after confessing my sins he prescribed anti-inflamatory once more which I took.
Well, after finishing the anti-inflamatory box and seeing no improvement at alI I went back to the Dr and he told me to go do some physiotherapy.
The folks from the physiotherapy office tried everything from exercises to acupuncture and after 6 sessions they told me that they could not figure out what the problem was and sent me back to my Dr who then prescribed X-ray and ultrasound.
The X-ray and ultrasound could not detect anything wrong and I went back to the Dr office once more.
The Dr requested a MRI and I am booked for end of September.
In the meantime I spoke with my health and safety advisor at the office who arranged for an ergonomic assessment.
I have sinced then changed chairs, moved the monitor poistion, etc.
The pain has improved dramatically but I am looking forward to go through the MRI to hopefully find ou what’s the root cause.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Sandra // Jul 18, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I hope you get well soon¡¡¡¡
2 Sandra // Jul 18, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I would like you to tell us how you feel about the medical system in Calgary, how is it working for you?
Thanks
3 marcelo // Jul 18, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Hi Sandra,
I think the health system here could be better but I do believe is far superior than the USA’s system and better than what I have seen in other countries.
The main problem that I see here is the wait time in case you need test like the MRI or something similar.
Even patients considered at risk still wait for quite some time to go through the needed tests.
Again, there’s certainly room for improvement but I have seen much worse than what we have here.
4 Octavio // Jul 20, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Marcelo,
isn’t it a bursitis? Maybe…
Anyway I hope you get well pronto!
regards
5 Zhu // Jul 20, 2009 at 8:00 pm
My husband went through the exact same steps a few years ago, for back pain. It was quite frustrating because it took almost a year for him to finally be booked for a MRI and to find he had a herniated disk, which required surgery (and another few months wait).
Surgery went well and a day after it, he was pain free and walking again just fine!
He is now perfectly healthy (we are both world traveler and backpacker!) and back to usual, but the whole experience of being sent from one place to another, plus the fees (we do not have benefits and paid out of pocket for chiro etc.) was a very annoying one.
The quality of health care was great and the doctors obviously very good and skilled, but I think the diagnostic part should really be improved!
Hope you get better soon (I didn’t mean to scare you with the surgery part etc.
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6 admin // Jul 29, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Yes, I do think that the waiting time needs to be reduced but I did not help too much by not taking the anti-inflammatory when it was first prescribed by my doctor.
thanks for your good wishes.
7 admin // Jul 29, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I have no idea but I guess the MRI will tell us.
cheers.
8 Sandra // Jul 31, 2009 at 1:51 pm
thanks for the answer
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