You are reading a single comment by @Foreigner65 and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
Foreigner65
The guy doing the ultrasound was great and very chatty after I started asking questions, even showing me a comparison with my other wrist, and explained there was an extra piece of bone and it caused inflammation (both things clearer on the ultrasound than the previous x-ray) but he could only say what he thought was there, not why or how long. My experience is that this kind of explanation is pretty extra. When I've had scans before the person doing it has not wanted to offer any interpretation.
I did later have a consultation with an orthopedic surgeon but it was a bit nonexistent (running late, very perfunctory) the message was - it's not significantly affecting your quality of life, do your physio and if it gets worse come back. I think he was only really interested in surgery or no surgery, and definitely for this I'd rather have a sometimes ouchy wrist than risk surgery of complicated small bones.