Arabrab - How terrible! Sending healing thoughts your way!!!
Shaw - Enjoy your well earned time off intertwined with work. 
Arabrab, clearly you and I need to hang out in the pool (don’t worry, I have the plastic cast protector from mch’s distal tendon rupture last year) and have a few attentive male nurses see to our well being 
Missy, I’m trying not to psych myself out here but 60 hours clear of the Meds and still major sign of tendon issues in right knee and left posterior upper ham/inside pelvic attachment area. Was it tendon tear/tendonitis in your dad’s reaction?
Dr. Google and I have discovered there is such a thing as " high hamstring tendonitis" where the ham attaches to joint under glute and if there’s actually damage here, from what I’ve read it can take years to rehab.
Despite icing/heat and hottub, all of which relieve the pain a bit for a spell, I am having a lot of trouble walking, sitting, and to some extent, even lying down in some positions. Can seem to sleep more than an hour at a time.
In order to be able to work at all, I’ve had to set up a zero-gravity lounger and keyboard rig for work.
The half life of cipro is 1/4 per 12 hours. It should be pretty much gone from my system now, but I’ve read the effects can linger for months or years. Mad as hell about all this and hopeful that something can resolve.
On the up side, my shoulder has resolved, so maybe this will too.
At any rate, Missy, short of anthrax, stay away from cipro given your genetics and fire any doc who doesn’t believe this can really happen Bactrim is the alternative they’ve put me on with Flagyl.
I am the last person on earth to exaggerate symptoms or pain…I am pretty good at just truckin on through. And this has me seriously concerned.
Thanks for all the good thoughts. Saw the doc yesterday only to hear, “Well, that was a lot worse than I expected,” when looking at the MRI. Maybe not the best bedside manner? But really, a very nice guy. I apparently dislocated the shoulder and then got it back into place myself, but the fall also broke a number of components inside the shoulder socket. So, we’re looking at surgery, and I’m visiting one of his many partners today for another review. He’s the one who just did shoulder surgery on my doc, who is still out of the surgery business while he recovers. Bummed out - the recovery is long and hard from what he said. 
@kmcmom13 - that sounds awful.
Oh, arabrab! So sorry to hear about your arm/shoulder! Hoping you are not in pain and that you can find some comfort. Sending healing thoughts, wishes and prayers your way.
Arabrab, I shouldn’t laugh, but I can just hear Harvey Korman uttering those words in a bad German accent on the old Carol Burnet show. I hope his talents as a doctor far exceed his tact! So sorry to hear that the break is so complicated.
Sorry for all the health issues.
My D texted - she’s moving to her new apartment today and she got stuck in the freight elevator with lots of her boxes. Fire department had to rescue her! Isn’t moving fun? She had a follow-up text after she got out.
Oh, no!!!
Yikes! Hope the elevator is more reliable in the future!
The stuck elevator is at the place she’s moving out of - so it won’t be her problem any longer!
Working in rural Virginia this week at a very beautiful and isolated campus. It’s very peaceful.
Ok— I will be the bearer of good news
What’s wrong with cipro, kmc? I am allergic to penicillin and they gave me cipro yesterday. I’m scheduling a surgery likely in August.
Shaw, I sincerely hope that youre mileage varies. In my case, we’re pretty sure Cipro caused inflamed tendons, if not partial tendon ruptures. TBD. I am in a lot of pain even though I discontinued it Sunday night and have read that for those who react, the effects are longterm (eg years) though I hope to be the exception
There are class action suits against cipro (and that whole class, eg levaquin) right now for neuropathy, tendon rupture, and aortic anneuyursm, I believe. The FDA has issued a black box warning about tendon ruptures.
In my case, had I really thought about it, I should have caught the reference on the warning about arthritis and contraindication. I do have arthritis, but it has been managed so long and so well its not really what you’d call “active” and the dx was from 15 years ago, so I don’t really relate like someone with arthritis. Age is another risk.
My dr has switched me to Bactrim instead…not sure if you’d be allergic to that. Might be worth asking.
Since people react completely differently to Meds, you may be just fine. But seriously weigh the risk on this one – and stop it immediately if your tendons feel tight at all, and do not exert yourself physically while on it, eg no workout.
Hope that helps. Fingers crossed. I know ths can be a life saving drug. I just wish I’d have known more, or that there was an alternative, before I went down this road.
Obviously I lost my post a few days ago. The only good news was that we finally had a good enough weather day and we were able to see puffins. Also, home now and the trip was uneventful and we both had exit rows, although not together. I was miserable in couch on the way over and hope never to have an overseas flight so cramped again.
Not sure how that will be accomplished. Overall it was not our best trip but nothing horrible happened either.
kmc, so very sorry. When my ankle muscle tore from statins (which Doctor Google and I figured out) and then when the second one caused such leg aches that I could barely walk…well it is life interrupting and frightening. It took most of the summer and I still have one area that acts up on occasion. Not the same but hoping yours improves with no serious lasting effects.
Really sending you the good thoughts that this will disappear rapidly. Maybe the pool is helpful to relieve the pain?
H said that he is surprised that your Doc gave you Cipro as a first drug.
Love that wedding dress!
Well, off to do laundry. I typically purge the mail and sort all of the suitcases out before I crash after a trip no matter the time. But I actually went to bed without doing a thing. It sure feels better to wake up to a post organized aftermath, things are a mess right now.
Glad your trip home was un eventful, Oregon.
The pool helps in that it offers somewhere I can float gravity free without acute pain…yesterday I put on my aquajogging waistband and spent 2 hrs visiting in pool with mcson, friend, and their girlfriends.
Getting out is hell, same with hottub.
My zero-gravity loungers are next best.
Re: your h’s comment…it was in the ER they put me on it - apparently cipro and flagyl together are first treatment for acute diverticulitis attack…and I guess they saw no contraindication. Everything connected to my facet joint syndrome (arthritis in side joints if spine) and for that matter, allergies was dx’d and treated in Canada 15 years ago.
They don’t have much info on my file since I hadn’t been in the system for 5 years, and that time was one outpatient visit for gall bladder. My orig doc quit 3 years ago and I’ve not been a frequent flyer so hadn’t even met the new doc that took over my file.
On this health system network you can add your own notes to the records online, so I’ve added some detailed notes so this kind of thing doesn’t happen again. The new doc is now pretty clear on where things stand
I think I like the new guy…he reminds me of the fixer in the movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Huh. I had facet joint syndrome issues about 10 years ago. Does that contraindict for Cipro?
Sorry about the flight crampedness, Oregon. I’m on the no red-eye-flights-ever-again unless I’m in business class, and no flights over 4 hours unless I can get Economy Plus type seating. But I bet the puffins were cute. We really enjoyed the night we watched the fairy penguins in Australia.
Arabrab, insofar as arthritis does, and use of NSAIDs, which makes it worse.
Yesterday started to turn corner after a few super rough days though. Bought a home TENS unit and loaded up on magnesium, coq10 and vit E after coming across some research at mayo on this. Pain is finally under control, so cheers to that!
Hope y’all had a nice 4th!
Hope you continue on the recovery KMC
Oregon - never ceases to amaze me how little room there is in coach. I wonder WHO is really their “model” customer - must be less than 5ft and weigh next to nothing!
Uneventful weekend for us although we did spend some time with the grandkids and family.
Kmc, glad you are battling your pain!
Our weekend was also uneventful, which I love and H does not. We did see the musical 42nd Street. So much tap dancing. Loved it.
We’re also watching Transparent. We really enjoyed the first season. Second season - so much nudity (female only, which is probably meaningful in context), language, drug use, etc. I know they are doing this because “they can” (Amazon series) but so much if it seems pointless.
@RochesterMom – the seats were designed for my neighbors. He’s about 5’4", and she’s maybe 5’, both slim. He travels all the time internationally for work, and she goes with him a fair amount. He mentioned a couple of years ago that he was glad that their sizes meant that coach seating was quite comfy.
I’m jealous.
But I had a 6’4" co-worker years ago, and I can’t imagine how he contorts himself into the seats these days – he had a tough time in the mid-80’s when the pitch was a lot bigger.
I think the real issue, for me at 5"2, is that I feel claustrophobic. Even with the aisle seat --not being able to see over the seat in front of me or to the side and the space for my things on the floor is super slim…
Do you know that the space for the aisle seat is narrower than the aisle?
Part of traveling means I am prepared with food, water, my own extra pillow and blanket, hand wipes and…pretty much like a well packed diaper bag :D.
I do like the aisle seat. Still, it is easy to get smacked in the head with a backpack and I worry about luggage falling on my head when people are dealing with that. H once had a patient who had serious long lasting injuries due to a person dropping a suitcase on him. Scary.