Tendonitis
I woke up a few weeks ago with my wrist in excruciating pain. I figured I'd slept on it weird, and ignored it. It has gotten progressively worse and worse, to the point where the pain was waking me up when I was sleeping. Yikes! It's hard having a hurting wrist when you have a 19lb baby who wants to be held all the time!
I finally went and bought a brace, took some advil, and iced it. I made an appointment to see a sports medicine doctor. (All the orthopedists I can find are orthopedic surgeons.) By the time I got to the doctor appointment, it was feeling a little bit better.
So I'm holding Bella on my lap and talking to this doctor about my wrist, and he tells me that tendonitis is common in new mothers. Then he says that it probably has to do with the fact that I am still breastfeeding, causing my hormones to be out of whack. Then he made a very big deal of saying "Now, *I* am not telling you not to breastfeed!" It was so funny, in hindsight, I wish I'd said... "It doesn't matter if you are!" After all I've been through, as if I'd let a little tendonitis scare me! HA! I laugh at your tendonitis!
But, hormones causing tendonitis? Breastfeeding causing tendonitis? Man they will grasp at any straw to imply moms should stop breastfeeding, won't they? Funny, I thought it was all my time online using a MOUSE that was causing me tendonitis.
I'm back to wearing my brace, icing it and using advil, and it's taking forever to get better. The other funny thing is that he offered me a cortisone shot, which I have no idea if it is safe during breastfeeding. (I'm going to find out.) But he assured me it was safe, while telling me that advil was unsafe. I know for a fact that ibuprofen is safe to take during breastfeeding, so this guy just heaped cluelessness upon cluelessness during my appointment.
But at least now if I decide I want the shot, I can go get it!