Hey all,
When I was about 10, I buckle fractured my left wrist. I had it in a cast, and it healed fine. Then when I was 15, I did it again, but this time to my right wrist. But, because it was the hand I write with, the doctors only put it in a tensor bandage and let it heal that way. My family doctor was furious that they did this, but none-the-less they did. I’m now turning 19 in a few days, and to me, it feels like I have arthritis in the wrists when we have certain weather, or I bend them the wrong way.
Now in school I’m taking a weight training course, and oh my God you can imagine what pain I can go through. I try and use tensor bandages to hide the pain that seems to only come in small bursts. I bend them the wrong way (or maybe just a specific way) and I get inflammation. I rub and bend back-n-forth a few times and in about 10 minutes the pain is gone.
My trainer asked me to see a doctor tonight, so I did. I explained my situation (and that when I left the hospital after my last checkup with the buckle fracture in my right wrist, the doctor told me that any pain that I hand was probably cause by arthritis). He thought it was a joke and told me to have the girls open doors for me and to hold my books. His opinion was that I was too young to have arthritis (even with the fractures). There was the possibility to have juvenile arthritis, but to me, that seems to be in really young kids and those kids seem to get it hereditarily.
I’m really stuck, because it’s hard to live life this way especially with joints that are used for quote a lot of things, and especially now that I’m trying to weight train.
I was given a prescription for anti-inflammatory pills, but only to see if they help the cause. Apparently they kill your stomach, so I’m not looking forward to trying these, but even so, this isn’t any help really – it’s only a cover up for the doctor explaining to me what exactly the problem I’m having is.
He also gave me a ‘doctors note’ or prescription for wrist braces to be covered for OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Program). If their not covered, I guess I’m SOL. But even that said, I wouldn’t know where to go to get them anyway.. a drug store maybe? GNC?
I also had x-rays taken (I don’t know why, can x-rays check to see if I have arthritis?). I’ll have to see my family doctor to see the results about those.
But in the meantime, does anyone have any input on my situation? I’m really frustrated and it’s getting me really upset to see my friends excelling (and also upgrading their bodies) while I’m sitting back watching holding my wrists……
Thanks all…
