kmcodyntn

Hello all, I’m a 39-year-old male and have been athletic most of my life. I love baseball, outdoors, camping and having fun with my wife and kids.
I drive a truck for a large pizza chain. My duties include very little driving (1174 miles a week) and mostly hand unloading up to 40k lbs of supplies for the stores in 2 ½ days for a total of 50 to 55 hrs a week. I have had several wrist injuries, both rotator cuffs torn, sprained ankles and bruised elbows due to heavy weight from above my head, with weight in hand and hitting elbows as the supplies are off loaded from the trailer.
There are bad lifting conditions in this type of work (very small areas of work inside of trailer) Repetitive, heavy lifting and bending of, back, wrists, and elbows.

To make a long story short, in sep. 99 I fell from about 12’ out of the back of the trailer onto my back, and my arms wrist, elbows and back broke my fall…lol…
This was my 2nd back injury. I went to the clinic and they said sprains of everything.
2 weeks they said carpel tunnel in left wrist. I went to a hand doctor and did all the therapy, splints etc.. No relief. The Dr ordered a EMG and found cubital tunnel, high range of moderate, and mild carpel tunnel. I went through more therapy and whole arm splints to appease the ins co, and no relief.

Of coarse by the sound of my post you can tell its w/comp…lol
I live in Indiana, work out of Illinois, pay IL taxes and hurt in Ky.stores in Ky and IL only. On Dec 3 of 99 I was secluded for cubital and carpel release. The Ins co denied it and sent me to a 3rd opinion and dr said 1 bump to elbow could not have caused cubital and carpel. They immediately moved my case from IL to Indiana, IN w/comp laws suck!
They sat me at home for 9 mo. With pay and refused to let me see a Dr. I was sent for a IME, in which the dr talked to me for about 5 min. then he gave me a (PPI) of 3% for my back and refused to discuss the arm probs. At all.

I have since hired a lawyer and they have been fighting since about jurisdiction. The laws in all 3 states say I have cases in all 3 states.

The other day I paid for a doctor myself because of the pain, numbness and weak grip and he believes not only compression in elbow (cubital) and in wrist (median) but also now a compression of the ulner in the wrist!
Then he scared me and told me he believes this may be the start of RSD.
He believed that if I had the surgery in 99 I would have not been at risk of RSD.
This Dr (which is the 2nd hand Dr) has also put in writing, that the injury and the length of time at this company (7 yrs) and all the injuries was work related.
My court date in IN is on the 9th , and I think all will finally go my way!
The thought of RSD really scares me because of my active lifestyle.

The moral of this story is:
NEVER TRUST W/COMP INS AND THE DR’S THEY SEND YOU TO.
They are only out for their interests and not yours. I don’t care what the nurse poster on this site says!!!
I would love hearing from other people about this, and their problems with w/comp ins, cubital tunnel, carpel tunnel and RSD. Sorry this was so long, I had to get it off my chest.
KC..........