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salixbabylon) wrote2007-03-15 07:36 pm
salixbabylon) wrote2007-03-15 07:36 pm
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soliciting advice
Ok, I give up. If I were younger, I'd call my mommy, but things are tense with her and I'd rather not. So my questions is:
How do you know when a minor injury is worth going to Urgent Care for?
My doctor can't see me for 3 weeks. I hurt my wrist in mid-February. It's probably strain/CTS-type pain, although there are some motions that really hurt and remind me of when I broke a small bone in my left wrist a few years ago. Sharp and almost scream-inducing, but not constant pain or all that annoying.
But it's been a month and it's not getting better. I wear a wrist brace some days and then I think it's getting better, but then I try to do something like hook my bra or use a pencil to write a note and I can't make my hand do what it needs to without cringing.
But I bet I'll get to Urgent Care, sit there for 3 hours or more, have an x-ray, and be told it's a slight sprain and to suck it up and it'll heal on it's own. *sigh*
Anyone? What would you do?
How do you know when a minor injury is worth going to Urgent Care for?
My doctor can't see me for 3 weeks. I hurt my wrist in mid-February. It's probably strain/CTS-type pain, although there are some motions that really hurt and remind me of when I broke a small bone in my left wrist a few years ago. Sharp and almost scream-inducing, but not constant pain or all that annoying.
But it's been a month and it's not getting better. I wear a wrist brace some days and then I think it's getting better, but then I try to do something like hook my bra or use a pencil to write a note and I can't make my hand do what it needs to without cringing.
But I bet I'll get to Urgent Care, sit there for 3 hours or more, have an x-ray, and be told it's a slight sprain and to suck it up and it'll heal on it's own. *sigh*
Anyone? What would you do?
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Case in point - when I had a bladder infection that left me with a fever of nearly 103° and had be passing out, my husband had to leave work and drag me kicking and screaming to the ER. In a roomful of people, I was the 3rd one to go back.
So I'm not really the best judge of when one should seek medical treatment. If we were talking about one of my kids, though, I'd already have taken her to the doctor. I think it's just harder when it's yourself you're dealing with, yeah?
*hugs*
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Why is it always so hard to take care of ourselves? We need to re-write that internal programming... :) *hug*