No PT For Me

Well, I went and met with the Physical Therapist and had a chat. He went on and on about how he could work with me on some theraputic stuff but in the end, it won’t help cure anything faster — it’ll just help ease the pain temporarily. Thinking back to the year I spent going to the chiropractor for 3 times a week to help my migraines (which it didn’t), I asked him if this is like if you get a cold and take cold medicine, the cold will go away in 14 days but if you don’t take the cold medicine, it’ll go away in 2 weeks.

At least he laughed.

But he did say that, yes, that was the case here.

So, even though the woman who hit me would be paying for it, it would be a big pain in the ass to go 3x a week for possible temporary relief. I’ve decided not to go. He said I could change my mind later if I wanted.

He did tell me to keep doing the exercises the other doctor suggested and do 2 Tylenol plu 2 Advil 4 times a day and he recommended those Thermacure patch things.

So we’ll see how it goes. I was a little down-hearted that he said it could be months until the pain goes away rather than that 6 - 8 week thing I’d been told earlier. He also indicated that some people have long-lasting phantom pains that never go away but that he didn’t think that would be the case with me. *sigh*

I’m ready to get back to worrying about the world and the terrorists and the US government…

tags: physical therapy, wellness, car accident

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