Ok so yesterday I had an arthogram on my shoulder. Right now, my shoulder is feeling… different, and not in a good way. Maybe a little looser in the socket? It’s like the arthogram awoke something wrong in my shoulder, now it clicks every once in a while when it didn’t before. The joint is super sore in the back area near the lat, completely opposite of where the injection site was. I cannot wait to see what the results will tell.
So I got a big injection yesterday, and today for my groin I tried dry needling for the first time. Dry needling is similar to acupuncture, except they just stick the needles where the knots are. Going in my hip/groin was feeling better than it ever has, so I was a little worried I was just wasting my time. That turned out to be a needless concern. When he worked on my groin it caused all kinds of… sensations. Like it felt kind of like a cramp, kind of like a shock of electricity. It was also an extremely specific like it was just a single strand of pain, the diameter of a iPhone connector cable, shooting up from my knee to my hip. Highly foreign, and highly uncomfortable. The PT told me that the sensations indicate that the procedure is being effective. If that's the case I really needed this.
Afterwards it still felt like there were needles in me, but when the PT tested my range of motion it was pretty ridiculous how much more I could open my leg. It still feels... strange, but I am to keep stretching it and hopefully it will get a whole lot better.
I also got my allergy injections today, so there’s another case of me being stuck by a needle.
Also, if this shoulder thing proves to be a torn labrum, I’m probably going to go the route of prolotherapy again. That, as you know, means even more needles. I wish I were more comfortable around them, but even if you’ve been stuck as often as I have, it’s still no fun. But if it makes the pain go away, then I’m all for it.
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