First, thank all of you who responded to my previous thread. Last Thursday, I had all of the pain I could take and I called my surgeon's office to find out what to do. His office called me back and said for me to go to the E.R. of Baylor/Downtown Dallas. By the time I got there, it was about 1pm in the afternoon. It's a very nice ER, nothing like the shows I watch on Discovery Health. Wasn't very long until a tech came to get me to take Xrays. I swear I think that both of us were crying by the time he finished the films. I had to roll onto each one of my sides, something I hadn't been able to do since this whole thing started in first week of Sep. In about 15 minutes, someone stuck their head in the door and asked when did I fall. I told them to the best of my knowledge, I never fell, but had my right leg collapse on Sep 5th at work and had to come home. He then said that I had a fractured pelvic bone, both on top and on bottom (he used the technical words "superior and inferior") and I'm laying there flabbergasted. The E.R. was ready to send me home but at my insistence, they called my surgeon who told them to get me a room and he would see me in a while. I didn't get the room until 7 something, but saw Dr. Viere the next morning.
So if you ever experience unexplainable leg pain especially in the inner part of the thigh, either on the right leg or left leg, you or your doctors should at least consider a broken pelvis no matter whether you fell or not. According to the medical people, I'll continue having the pain for perhaps another three weeks, and it takes 3 months to completely get over it. Being a straightline fracture, there's nothing they will do for it, except prescribe the pain pills, and show me how to protect my leg from causing more pain. I have to balance staying in bed against some walking around and some light exercises. I have to use a walker, both kinds, and a cane, and all of those tools we learned to use following our scoli operations. I haven't decided how or if I'm going to be able to transport my rolling walker (Rollator) in my car as it's 16 or 17 lbs. and my *new* weight limit is 5#. They are suggesting I use my other pickup and step walker along with the rolling walker, carrying the lighter weight one in the car. I won't try any of that until probably next week after working on getting some strength back.
I'm not happy to have had this happen, but I am so glad to find out what was causing my horrific leg pain that no one could explain or diagnose.
So if you ever experience unexplainable leg pain especially in the inner part of the thigh, either on the right leg or left leg, you or your doctors should at least consider a broken pelvis no matter whether you fell or not. According to the medical people, I'll continue having the pain for perhaps another three weeks, and it takes 3 months to completely get over it. Being a straightline fracture, there's nothing they will do for it, except prescribe the pain pills, and show me how to protect my leg from causing more pain. I have to balance staying in bed against some walking around and some light exercises. I have to use a walker, both kinds, and a cane, and all of those tools we learned to use following our scoli operations. I haven't decided how or if I'm going to be able to transport my rolling walker (Rollator) in my car as it's 16 or 17 lbs. and my *new* weight limit is 5#. They are suggesting I use my other pickup and step walker along with the rolling walker, carrying the lighter weight one in the car. I won't try any of that until probably next week after working on getting some strength back.
I'm not happy to have had this happen, but I am so glad to find out what was causing my horrific leg pain that no one could explain or diagnose.
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