soliciting advice

[salixbabylon]

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?

Comments

[sileya.livejournal.com]

You've been hurting too long to put it off. You need to go. Wearing the brace and still having the pain is not a good sign - even a sprain should react well to that. If you're having CTS symptoms, it might be worth it to go to a place that focuses on that - they sometimes do VAX-D, too, to find one. When my CTS flared so badly that it was unbearable pain, I called one and got in the same day.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

And it only took all my LJ friends to convince me to go. :)

I need to get a new desk or some accessories to make this one more functional. I've known that for a long time but this is definitely A Sign From Above.

Maybe with the money from my writing class...