Report from fifth Prolotherapy Treatment

Ok, well sadly there was no surprise in yesterdays visit to the Dr.'s office.  He felt my hip while I brought my knee to my chest and back down, and when it went "clunk" he almost seemed startled and asked "Oh we aren't doing PRP for this?"

That makes me a little irritated because I was expecting to do PRP from the beginning.  Patients always want to go to the most aggressive treatment first, and I was no different.  When I first saw him back in December Doc said that we should try sodium muriate first, see how that goes, and then do PRP as a plan B.  And since the sodium muriate costs "only" $375 while the PRP costs about $650, I appreciate that.  Well I am now three months/five treatments into it, and it looks like we're still sticking with sodium muriate, but I'm a little irritated that he was surprised when he felt the tear.

Laberal tears tend to require between four to six treatments, and since I just had my fifth one I'm still in the normal range.  Doc just got my hopes up when he said that the fourth treatment should be my last.

I swear, my recovery from each treatment seems to get faster and faster.  I felt better the day of my fifth treatment than I did maybe four days after my first treatment.

Concerning my neck, Doc was a little disappointed when I told him that I had in fact manipulated my neck a couple times (probably 6-10 times total) over the three weeks.  I've gotten ridiculously better, I was doing it like 7-10 times a day, but he was still not happy that I did it at all.  He wanted that put on the record, so that if this treatment takes longer the record will show that I had a hand in slowing down the healing.

The dude gave me a ton of injections up and down my neck/shoulder.  I think with the neck it was just sugar water (the most conservative solution used).  Leaving the office, my neck felt a lot of the pressure from the solution, but I felt none of the pain/discomfort I am used to dealing with.  As I write this now, I completely normal on my shoulder/neck.

So it looks like I'm going to have to wait a little longer for the opportunity to get back into oly lifting/crossfit.  I'm starting to get a little annoyed by this, but there is nothing I can do but do isolation weightlifting and swimming.  ...More on that on a later post.