Going With The Flow

well i think its been established that steroids are not performance-enhancing for you :-(

hmmm.....blood work??? hormones, ferritin (again), TSH, etc...ARE you sleeping well? I would suggest cherry juice concentrate a strong antioxidant. hope things turn around quick!!

Did he do another x-ray of your pelvis? If not I would suggest that again. If so, and there were still no signs of a pelvic fracture in the ramus or elsewhere then maybe you should re-examine your MRI and that small piece of labrum that they did not think was causing any problems.

Or maybe even a bone scan?

Yup, he took an xray of the pelvis and everything looked good. I'm getting really nervous b/c I've started to develop pain around my pubic bone.

andrea: i'm not sure if "osteitis pubis" has been brought up through all of these tests, but this guy's blog might be helpful:

http://dale.fastrunningblog.com/blog-02-2009.html

Yes I have looked into it...average 9 month recovery :( I didn't have the signs of it when the doc did the testing for it, but ever since he did that I've had pain there.

I'm curious to know what other tests they will look at. Clearly something is wrong and hasn't been detected. Sneaky injury! Otherwise, I think you just need to form an opiate addiction. That seems to be popular these days.

I had osteitis pubis postpartum and several flares since then. I honestly think it is hormonal either thyroid or adrenals. Getting optimum nutrition- vitamins and iron.

Well I set up another appt with the doc on Tuesday. He said that he really needs the pain to localize in order to determine what the next plan of action is...hopefully that happens by then.

I'm going to ask him what this could be if it isn't sports related...and whether we should just go ahead and get some blood work done, get a bone scan, etc.

I think the only solution is to use the 9 mo. recovery to have a kid, Utah style!

Man this bums me out. Really want you healthy and dominating.

Oh man I was hoping that I was coming back on the blog to see that your healthy. Im so sorry. So frustrating! I think Redd is onto something here though.....

I'M NOT EVEN MARRIED!!!

I'm sure a Justice of the Peace can be arranged....

:)

Oh boy I started this down a dark path, dark indeed.

dang it..

Good luck on Tuesday. Maybe a 20-mile tempo would help that pain "localize" once and for all?

P.S. I am not a doctor.

I back you up if you wanna vent more. Let it all out, get angry! You are allowed to be peeved.

I am so sorry. I hope time will heal :(

btw I have had osteitis pubis. After I had my daughter 7 years ago. Sucked!

Yeah I hear it's very common during/after pregnancy. It sounds terrible.

I am heavily thinking about "localizing" the pain with a hard tempo run :)

Have a BABY, get ANGRY...

Thanks everyone for thinking of MY QUALITY OF LIFE in all of this!!! :-)

Dooo it! I will do it with you :)

Jake ha ha!

Andrea I think it's time to consult the Ouija board.

j/k

For both of your sake's don't listen to any of this baby stuff. Did you know they just poop on themselves and you have to clean it?? No one told me!

Yeah at least you can train puppies to go in the neighbor's yard...

Is the pain in your SI joint? You're absolutely certain it's not an acquired leg length discrepancy? All that tightness in your hips/psoas/hamstring might jack your legs up into your pelvis. This can cause pain which source often goes mis/undiagnosed. If you do have a discrepancy I can give you the name of the only person I trust to pull my leg back in place. Since my last baby I've needed an adjustment about once every six months. My pain ranged from very sharp debilitating SI pain (I could not run at all), to a "stiff" feeling in my hip. I hope you can figure this out!