Tennis Elbow

It's official.

Finally visited the doc today.

Tennis Elbow is more painful than I had ever reckoned.

You hear of it, and think it's some silly thing. I know I did.

He shot me fulla cortisone, gave me a band and some therapy exercises and sent me on my way.

We have more snow coming and I had really aggravated it from all the shoveling/ice chiseling this past week, but the renter is no help, and it has to get done. I had even skipped volleyball.

He said the shot would help relieve the immediate pain, as would the band when I use it.

I've read where the shots can do no good, and others swear by them.

I've had good luck with both of my knees and shoulder each time I've had the injections, so I figured let's give it a go, and at least get some relief (it's been painful on waking, or I've found myself on my arm/shoulder when I wake and felt near paralysed.) It hurts to lift or even touch things - like turning a key, or picking up a book, or a beverage, and even just to move my arm to get dressed; anything really.

The shot hurt a bit more than when I've had my knees and shoulder done, but that's because the medicine went into a pocket and filled up the space. With this, he has to shoot it directly into the tendon in several places. So it hurt, well, more pinched a bit, and I could feel each movement of the needle's injection down my arm and into my hand. Kinda trippy, and yeah, it made me take a breath - but nothing too painful, not as painful as my arm before the shot, that's for sure.

Afterward, it felt great, until about this last 30 min, and now (3 hrs later) the pain is coming back.

Might have to find some pain meds soon, and put some ice on it, and do a few exercises.

Not allowed to wear the band for 36 hrs until the cortisone is more absorbed at the site.

More on this later.