well, that would explain a lot, wouldn't it?

[elisem]

It was suddenly brought home to me, while I was reading elsewhere online, that there is one more major factor making this recuperation more challenging/slow/painful than the average person might expect:

I am not allowed to take any anti-inflammatories. (Crohn's disease precludes them.)

This doesn't just mean I have more pain. It means that I have more pain, and that tissues are not healing as fast as they otherwise would, because they are inflamed and swollen. (Ice, yes, I know. Workin' on it.) It means that every PT session leaves me ouchy with no recourse to the comfortable routine of people who can just take some whatever-it-is and feel things ease.

This is a big realization. I figured I'd mention it here.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Yay you for realizing that!

Ice around the hip is always fun [/sarcasm] and I hope you can find secure positions for it without violating The Precautions.

[finny]

That makes perfect sense to me. (I am one who can take anti-inflamatories, but I am also, unfortunately, one upon whom such things seem to have little effect, if any. Thus I hardly ever take them, unless I am in extreme cannot-move-without-wimpering-and-trying-to-hold-in-screams-so-as-not-to-worry-folks-(who would really likely rather be worried, me thinks), and absolutely must move, to go to work, for instance.)

*wanders off to try and figure out what a leg press machine is*

[(Anonymous)]

That's a big realization.

I am not a doctor, but I'm wondering if it's safe for you to use both cold, to reduce inflammation, and heat, to stimulate circulation, which can increase healing in injured tissue.

-- Lisa