Opinion on injury

[Keyboard]

To start off, I just got back from my GP about this, and just booked an appointment with a Sports Doctor next week. The idea of this thread is just to get ideas of who to see, as my GP has told me to pretty much "live with it".

On to the question. So I've had a hand problem bugging me since last February, had an X-ray done, bone scan, and finally an MRI which showed "Mild chronic synovitis with 2-3 small ganglion cysts along involving the proximal and distal carpal row as described above." The mri also showed "some synovial thickening interposed along the radial carpal and ulnar carpal joints as well as the proximal carpal joints.".

My GP told me there is nothing that can be done about this, and basically told me I can have a cortisone injection or live with it. Has anybody had any experience in dealing with hand injuries like these, and who did you see? He wants to send me to a rheumatologist for the cortisone, but I want to have the cysts removed as I'm pretty sure that would solve the problem.

I can't do any pushing/pressing movements because of the pain, and there is no way I am accepting "live with it" as an answer to the injury.

Any help on this issue is appreciated.

Thanks,

K

 

[zombiejitsu***]

Kill your doctor. What a fuck.

Second opinions help. Not from GPs though. They are useless morons. Go see a hand specialist.

 

[Keyboard]

Yeah I'm trying to find one, suprisingly in Toronto there are relatively few hand/wrist specialists. Oh, he's also the doctor that told me when I first had symptoms to just RICE it, then had an X-ray, told me to RICE it, then had a bone scan, told me to RICE it some more. Finally I had to cross the border to pay for my MRI and it shows this...

Any more help is apprecitated...

 

[grrthetree]

Finally I had to cross the border to pay for my MRI

Hmmmmmm.

 

[Keyboard]

Hmmmmmm.

There's a 6 month wait list for MRI's in my province.

 

[Gingervitis]

There's a 6 month wait list for MRI's in my province.

Ya, it's not uncommon for Canadians to cross the border for quick surgeries, mri's, etc since the waiting list here is absolutely ridiculous.