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The doctor prescribed “Apo-Naproxen” @ 375mg, I am to take this twice daily with food. Apparently this med is an equivalent to Naprosyn.....whatever that drug is?
STOP using my arm.......WHAT, crips that’s like asking a colony of ants to stop working! I don’t think putting my arm in a sling would help me, I’d just pull it out and use the damn thing. After talking to the doc and you guys I think possibly my best solution would be to self wrap a cast around my arm.....bite the bullet and live with it for a month. All I know is I CAN NOT function the way I am now, crips I can’t even lift an empty bottle of beer live-alone a full one.
Kent, that stretch, well it hurts like the dickens to get my hand back there, but I sure can feel the rotating of the wrist targeting the pain in my elbow area.....I can see how that stretch would help - thanks!
I think you've got it. Naproxen at the maximum dosage - 800 - Doctors often prescribe 2 500's. for real inflamation and pain. I think this stuff actually worked for my back in time...
Its basically alleve - take with apple cider or lots of water it will plug you up - especially if you drink those lime vodka coolers that are so highly recommended.
It can also cause bleeding at that dosage so keep an eye on your $hit.
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I had it for at least 8 months... I had to grab a hold of crackhead one day and fight with him (not an unusually event for me). I apparently just stained the HE!! out of my arm. About a month later I did not realize how severe it was till I literally had to struggle to qualify at the gun range brecause of lack of strength... It will seem like an eternity for it to go away, but it will
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If you don't play tennis then its from something that you do do. I'd call it fishing elbow and the only cure is not cortisone shots but shot of you favorite adult beverage.
If you don't play tennis then its from something that you do do. I'd call it fishing elbow and the only cure is not cortisone shots but shot of you favorite adult beverage.
So I had crackhead arm....
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I had it for at least 8 months... I had to grab a hold of crackhead one day and fight with him (not an unusually event for me). I apparently just stained the HE!! out of my arm. About a month later I did not realize how severe it was till I literally had to struggle to qualify at the gun range brecause of lack of strength... It will seem like an eternity for it to go away, but it will
Ya that pain in the arm will reek havoc on your shooting arm specially single hand drills. I shoot competitively IPSC and USPSA type matches and sometimes after 300-500 rounds of .45acp my hand and arm go numb when I have tendinitis. It really sucks.
Get it every summer. Shot eased it for about a day then it was back full force. 800 ibuprofen doesn't work, nor does Naprosyn. Gave me a lidocane ketoprofen cream that just made my arm greasy. Doc says for me to try therapy, and if that doesn't work then last option is surgery. Even that isn't a guarantee and because of my job I'd be out 3 months. Shots will do damage to tissue if done too often. So, I wear the brace and move on.
Just try and lay off the arm as much as possible and rely on your left. Use the brace and ice it down. No heat! If this is your first time with it the anti inflammitory should help. Just know, that once you get it once that your more than likely to get it again. Chances are the more you get it, the longer it will take to get rid of it. I've had it since May and it hasn't let up. Great for my line of work. Don't bump it on anything.
I really have to applaud some of you guys if you can work through the pain; that or there has to be varying degrees of severity to this infliction??? I mean there would be no way on earth I would be able to pick up a gun or a hammer (for example) without the aid of the left hand, crips it's taking pretty much everything I've got to raise my arm with nothing in the hand! There is hope though, yesterday I pretty much did nothing with the arm and this morning it is feeling ten times better.
Cortisone didn't help mine. They had to go in, cut the tendons loose, scrape the bone and re-staple them. Long term healing. A side benefit now that it's over - I can tell when the weather is about to change.
Garett - 12/19/2007 6:20 AM
... crips it's taking pretty much everything I've got to raise my arm with nothing in the hand!
When I had trouble with my right shoulder, I had to push the elbow with my left hand so I could grab my seat-belt. I got so habituated to this, I still do it even though I seldom have more than a twinge.
You will find ways to adapt. Remember "pain is your friend." If an activity hurts think about another way to do it or rub your muscle to loosen it up if you need to continue. I heat up and sweat when I do physical activities so on chilly days I have extra sweat shirts and change when they get damp instead of stripping down. If I dont have spares I put on a windbreaker to keep the heat in.
I was diagnosed with Epi-condolitis (sp?) tennis elbow in 2000. Couldn't lift my left arm above my shoulder and couldn't carry any weight. They cut into my elbow, ground the bone and cut the tendon. Was great for 6 years, but about 1 year ago, the pain returned. Got the cortisone shot last year and one yesterday (not really cortisone some type off triamcinalone) The pain is gone and elbow is great. We had discussed another surgery, but I don't want to go through all of that again. Probably go with another shot when needed. If it lasts a year great. The painisn't that great (for the injection),
This must be my problem. My left elbow has been bothering me for months. Hurts and goes numb if I bend it for very long, like at my desk typing or reading a book in bed.
Less strength when lifting over should height, like swinging a case of beer into the bed of my truck or cranking in a heavy fish.
I lift a lot of weights to stay in shape, but the downside is I now have this. I upped my reps and lowered the weight because my shoulders were bothering me, now my shoulders are ok, but my elbow is getting worse.
Well, I have a Tens (sp) unit for my back when it spazzes out. When my right elbow goes whacky, I put the tens on it. Seems to work the kink out. If you have access to one, give her a shot. Plusly, it makes your arm do all sorts of weird tricks you had no idea it could do.
It could also be radial tunnel syndrome which is a nerve impairment. The two are often misdiagnosed. I had radial tunnel and it sucked. Nothing short of surgery helped me. Make sure you see on ortho that specializes in upper extremities if your condition persists.
Right now I'm doing the chicken peck typing technique because I can't raise my right hand/ arm off my lap....it's another bad day. Tomorrow I'm going to be calling one of my old sports doctors, plus the guy that does A.R.T.
For fast temporary relief I'm finding the hot tub is really helping, but it sure does seize up afterwards.
Stop using it, drink a beer , buy a snow blower [ electric start ] and use the other hand for your speical purpose.
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Re: Dang does my arm hurt!!! 
Thanks buddy! 
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Shot eased it for about a day then it was back full force. 800 ibuprofen doesn't work, nor does Naprosyn. Gave me a lidocane ketoprofen cream that just made my arm greasy. Doc says for me to try therapy, and if that doesn't work then last option is surgery. Even that isn't a guarantee and because of my job I'd be out 3 months. Shots will do damage to tissue if done too often. So, I wear the brace and move on. 
Tomorrow I'm going to be calling one of my old sports doctors, plus the guy that does A.R.T.
