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Inconclusive

therefore Diagnostic arthroscopy has been recommended.
Should hear from the hospital soon.

I want my arm back!

never had a general anasthetic, I hear they can be quite trippy when you are zonked out.
Will find out soon enough.

 

fix/find (or seek and destroy as my brother calls it!) surgery on the 26th april!
(arthoroscopy)


sh1tting bricks tbh..

 

Chill bud, the scope is the easy part!

Its sorting whatever the scope finds thats the brick-****ting time!

Good luck anyway

 

Best of luck with it Chrome.

Mine feels reasonable now and has pretty good movement although it can get stiff and aches a bit particularly in cold weather. Got my surgery booked for April 3rd - bankart or SLAP depending on what they find. They say they're expecting to make it fairly good but it'll never be 100%. They're also going to investigate how my humeral head is now and whether that's going to need further work, fingers crossed it won't. I'm told I'll be in a sling for 6 weeks which will come off just in time for my final uni exams

Any ideas how long I'll be in hospital for? It's the general anaesthetic that scares me the most. Thankfully I've heard enough reassuring things about the surgeon to be confident he won't ***** it up. How much will it hurt afterwards? I had plans to go to NYC for a short break in late April but I guess that's a daft thing to do 3 weeks after surgery.

 

3-4 days for my bankart procedure.

Lots. Anyone who tells you it doesn't is a lot tougher than me!


Depends how active you wanna be. If its just the sight-seeing touristy things, you could probably go and still enjoy it.

 

I was told mine would be same day op?
(in and out same day)
Possible SLAP/BL, minor rotator cuff tear..

 

Chrome,

Arthroscopy is often a same day turnaround....

Scoobysters will most definitely be an open procedure hence a few days in hospital.

When I had my bankart, the guy in the next bed had a scope and was out the same day.

I also had a knee scoped a few years ago and got out that night.... not sure if they use less anaesthetic or what, but the procedure itself is obviously a lot less invasive hence quicker recovery.

 

Cheers Talizman

 

ah right.
It was the fact you had a bankart (open) that worried me...
They dont have much idea what they are going to find
hopefully will be in and out..

 

got a letter to say 26th april.

I phoned them last week to check... they sent it by mistake!!!

It will now be late July-mid Aug!
BUGGER.

 

Still waiting for my op too. 6 months is up on May 26th (which is the maximum waiting time) - not sure what happens after that. I did have a letter a few weeks back asking if I wanted to stay on the waiting list - er... yes!

 

chris- that sucks mate.. you're giving me the fear now!



without wanting to seem competitive; with all the faffing about from my GP and the local hospital (not the op' hospital which is a smaller one north of the city) by the time I actually have the op it will be almost 11months from the day of the accident!

 

Update!

Finally received my operation date - May 15th (with a medical and blood tests on 3rd May). Can't wait, just want to get it fixed now

 

Good luck mate.

 

Just had my operation on the 17th.
They removed a huge amount of scar tissue front and back, but thankfully no structural damage was found
I have a week off work (mainly sleeping and doing physio' exercises) and am abel to resume driving in a couple of weeks, and can resume heavy lifting/sport in 6months

here is a pic:

Currently on a regular (six hour) dose of Paracetamol and Tramadol..
Physio (gentle) is already going well.

 

Glad your on the mend mate

It's encouraging to see light at the end of the tunnel eh?

 

Good news. That is pretty much what happened to me. The surgery was scheduled to repair any tissue / muscle damage, but what they ended up doing was removing large amounts of scar tissue. I hadn't realised how restricted the movement of my arm had become! I was sitting up in bed with my arm in a sling and the consultant came along and told me to remove the sling and get my arm moving. I've done about 6 weeks of physio and I have just started to play the odd few holes of golf. Think I pushed it a bit hard at the weekend though and now it bloody aches like hell Not looking forward to the winter at this rate.

 

I dislocated my shoulder lifting some stuff out of my van but i popped it back in place straight away it hurt really bad for about a week so i took it easy never had a problem since but im a bit more careful. hope your feeling better soon