Something's going on .
A couple of weeks ago, I started feeling a pain mid-way up my back on the right side by the spine, radiating around to the front ribs. I thought it was a muscle spasm at first. It mainly hurt at night, really bad, like a stabbing knife, whenever I moved my right arm or tried to turn over. All night long, any time I moved. Had me in tears sometimes. Then I thought it might be nerve pain since it followed the rib cage around. In the morning, it pretty much goes away except with certain movements.
So it's been getting worse, not better. Hurts more at night.
And now I notice my ribs look different on the left side. It's like the 9th or 10th rib is bowing out a lot farther than the ones above or below it. It doesn't hurt, but the corresponding level on the other side sure does when I lie down.
I have an appointment tomorrow morning to see what's going on.
I hope they don't have to re-do the whole darn thing. I hope the rotation isn't coming back.
(Or maybe I should just be hoping that if there IS something wrong, they can fix it.)
Attaching my pre- and post-op xrays, finally.
I guess I'll find out what's changed tomorrow morning.
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A couple of weeks ago, I started feeling a pain mid-way up my back on the right side by the spine, radiating around to the front ribs. I thought it was a muscle spasm at first. It mainly hurt at night, really bad, like a stabbing knife, whenever I moved my right arm or tried to turn over. All night long, any time I moved. Had me in tears sometimes. Then I thought it might be nerve pain since it followed the rib cage around. In the morning, it pretty much goes away except with certain movements.
So it's been getting worse, not better. Hurts more at night.
And now I notice my ribs look different on the left side. It's like the 9th or 10th rib is bowing out a lot farther than the ones above or below it. It doesn't hurt, but the corresponding level on the other side sure does when I lie down.
I have an appointment tomorrow morning to see what's going on.
I hope they don't have to re-do the whole darn thing. I hope the rotation isn't coming back.
(Or maybe I should just be hoping that if there IS something wrong, they can fix it.)
Attaching my pre- and post-op xrays, finally.
I guess I'll find out what's changed tomorrow morning.
download-1_2.jpg ju0003_2.jpg Julie xray_2.jpg
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