update time....
it's been 3 weeks since injection and significantly limiting use and range of motion. Some days it feels better and some days it hurts. The information we read about is that you need to give it 30 days of little/no use and 2 months of limited use and then you see whether or not it worked.
I can now say I have experienced, from this, the entire pain scale range of 10 out of 10 to a 1 out of 10. The last week it's about a 3:10 whereas the first 2 days it was a 10:10, a blow torch on the elbow is the best description i can use.
I was hoping for more constant relief by now (I still get flairs of pain to 6-7:10 in the joint) but time will tell. I'm not ready to tell everyone to go get this done for tendon injuries but after the 3 month mark, I'll let everyone know if it's a success or a way to delay surgery.
ss 
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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