Happy New Year And Unhappy New Condition.

[willows]

Just my luck , New Year and I'm just starting a new side to Pots ................

I haven't been feeling well since Boxing day , was in bed all day , pain , pain and more pain under my right ribs again............warning bells started to ring as it reminded me off when I had my 24 all singing -all dancing gall-stones ............a sort of constant nagging , on and on pain the sort you couldnt sit , stand or lay down with ...............so running my hands over the area , which is just below my right boob ...................OMG ............A lump

I must admit I had to sit down and stop the room from moving in and out on finding it , ran my hands over the area again , yep .............a lump all right , quiet big , about the size of a large egg but round instead of oval shapped , pressed a bit in the middle . ...............now wished I hadn't pressed a bit in the middle OUCH ................ OK , OK not panicking , keeping calm , not sweating , dry mouthed ...............if you can believe that then you'll belive I didnt shout to Mark to come here NOW !

So I'm at the doc's this morning first thing as I couldnt get in before now and there is no way I'm going to the local hospital to have them looking at me like I'm some escaped lunatic because they dont understand what POTS is and so dont look, listen and never learn by my conditions when I go to see them !

My Doc ( lovely person ) took me seriously , might be becuase I'm now looking like c*** because of lack of sleep owing to pain and worry .............he had a feel , had a poke ( ouch again) and said 'what on earth have you been doing to tear this ' ...........er , whats this

Apparently I've managed to tear the muscle attached to my lower rib , its been bleeding on and off which accounts for the swelling getting bigger then when I rest slowly subsiding as the blood drains away , its the sort of tear you get if you have a horrendous fall .........nope. or you reach for something exceedingly heavy that you cant hold the weight of.........nope.

I'm having an ultra sound on the area as soon as they can get a place for me ........I wont hold my breath as I know what the NHS is like after Christmas , but hopefully it wont be to long .

So in the meantime I can have my chest strapped and must not under any circumstances :

1: Lift anything heavy ..................mmmmm, ' feed me my rice crisps dear the spoons to full'

2: Reach for anything over my normal reach.............mmmmmmm, ' pass my sox's dear from the chest of drawers my arms aren't 6 foot long '

3: Try to support my weight with my arms ..............mmmmmmm, 'I'm tired of swinging from the chandeliers dear , can we have some monkey bars in my cage instead ' .

Me thinks my doctor needs to re-phase what he said to me or I might take it literally .

This is the second if not third tear I have had in my muscles in the past few months , the first was my right thumb from the hand ..............OMG that was and is still painful today at times, the second was my fingers on the same hand and now my intercostal muscle ( I think its called ) so, has anyone else started to tear bits of his or her internal muscles with little or no strain for apparently no reason . it would be nice to see if anyone else is having these problem , mind you I'm a long term Pots sufferer and am now experiencing some rather 'nasty' POTS things creeping up on me ............as well as old age

So Happy New year to you all from Ami and her new 'squishy lump' , Mark her one handed ' I can do that for you dear ' husband and Mike her wonderful ' No, let me do that for you mum ' son .............. ah, a quiet , restful life for the next few weeks , shame about the pain

Ami XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. 31st January 2007 @ 5: 58 pm UK time

[Mrs. Burschman]

Willows,

Ouch! I hope that the pain gets better soon. That sounds really bad.

Amy

[ajw4790]

Owww! Wow, that sounds awful! Hope you get to feeling better soon!