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UCTD and damaged tendons/ligaments
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Jul 7 6:28pm | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
@yellowdoggirl1 Sounds like you have a lot on your plate right now. Besides talking with the rheumatologist, I would also suggest talking with the orthopedic surgeon. If your tendons and ligaments are inflamed, that could interfere with the surgery and proper healing. Orthopedic surgeons have tempers and they would hate to think that there was a problem that could have been avoided if they had been told. Now, the surgeon isn’t going to know all the specifics of autoimmune disease, so it’s up to you to educate him/her about the inflammation.
Did this same surgeon do your previous surgeries?
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Hello @becsbuddy!Funny I reread the story about the person with the shoulder surgery upcoming and the other problems and thought it sounded like me, and it was me. Since then I have had the surgery and well into recovering thanks for doing all the painful exercises and I'm going to see the rheumatologist in a week and a half. Unfortunately for me it will be a new Fellow so it will take a long time and we will only go over what is of interest to them, I suppose.
I still have questions about the other tendons and ligaments and inflammation and that will be my opportunity to ask. In the interim I was hospitalized for 3 days with terrible abdominal pain and infection, fever, and bad lab results showing problems with liver pancreas etc. It turned out I needed my gallbladder out which I had done before the shoulder surgery so I am now better all over. Hallelujah
Next I will find out what the rheumatologist says.
Thank you, everyone, for thinking about this!
@yellowdoggirl