Hey !

I decided to join the many internet-savvy people and start blogging ! I have read many accounts of FAI and the process of diagnosis, surgery and recovery. This will be my record of the entire process and I will be extremely honest about how it affects my mental and physical state. Others will be googling when they find out they have the same diagnosis and support seems to be the thing missing.
My diagnosis (right hip)-
- cam-type FAI and pincer-type
- partial detachment of the anterior/superior labrum (tear)
- fraying along the articular margin of the superior labrum with minimal partial detachment
- chondral softening along the superior acetabular rim manifested by low signal in the cartlidge (no clue what that means !)
- mild chrondral surface irregularity
- chondral softening involving adjacent superior femoral head
- physiologic joint fluid
- insertional tendinosis of the right gluteus minimus

My left hip is almost the same but says complete detachment and no fluid reported.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

I'll take the center square for the block !

Uggggg ! I went in for the nerve block and she wouldn't do it. I am off for another MRI but this time they want to do the lumbar spine area. She believes the source of my pain may be a disk and not so much .. you know the hip issue ! No news from Dr. Phillipon yet but I guess it doesn't matter since I left my phone at home today. I am starting a new medication called Gabapentin to take the edge off the pain hopefully. They also gave me valium for the next MRI since finding the last one was terrifying due to claustrophobia. I am so sick of doctors.
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