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Marking Copies Hurts More Than Standing in Class
I teach at a primary school, and my hands are busy from the first bell. I write on the board and turn pages all day, and I hold little hands across the road outside. Since last winter my wrists and knuckles have started aching before the day is half over. The ache is not sharp. It just sits there and grows. On bad mornings my fingers feel thick and slow, and my wedding ring will not slide off the finger it has sat on for years.
At first I blamed the cold and the extra exam copies. Rest on Fridays helped a little, then stopped helping. My own doctor listened, pressed each knuckle in turn, and asked how long the morning stiffness lasted. She said this slow, spreading pattern of joint pain is the everyday work of a rheumatologist. She advised me to see one rather than keep guessing.
I did not know any rheumatologist by name, so I started the way I start most searches, on my phone after dinner. I opened the general listings of doctors practising in Feni and read through them slowly. Names and visiting hours, chamber addresses. I was not looking for the longest list. I wanted someone whose stated work matched the joint trouble I actually have.
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Dr. Shadab Saud Sunny
Marking Copies Hurts More Than Standing in Class
What the First Sitting Actually Covered
I expected a quick look at my hands and a prescription. Instead he asked questions for a long while. Which joints hurt. When it began. How long the stiffness takes to loosen after I wake up. Whether tiredness follows me, and what illnesses I have had. Then he bent and pressed each joint of my fingers and wrists. He went through my earlier reports before saying anything about treatment.
Blood Tests and Pictures Before Any Big Decision
He said hands alone cannot tell the whole story, so he asked for some blood tests and pictures of my joints. The tests would show what is happening inside, and the pictures would show the present state of the joints. Only after those came back, he said, would he talk about a long plan. Nothing was decided in a hurry.
A Plan Measured in Months
He was plain with me. Joint trouble like mine is usually managed over time, visit by visit, not finished in one sitting. Progress would be gradual, with worse weeks mixed in. The medicines I already take stay exactly as they were set. Changing them belongs to the doctor who set them, nobody else, and a few easier days is no reason to stop one on my own. At every visit he would review the response and adjust the plan.
When He Said a Surgeon, Not Him
I asked what happens if a joint of mine ever gets badly damaged. He said that kind of problem leaves his table and goes to a surgeon, and he would tell me so plainly. Months later, when my uncle's old knee injury swelled up again, I used the general surgeon listings for Feni to find him one.
Questions From My Colleagues
Will my fingers loosen up enough to mark copies comfortably again?
That is the hope, he said, but it comes slowly. The aim is joints that trouble me less, judged over months, not after one visit.
Should I stop writing on the board?
No. He asked me to keep working and rest the hands when the ache builds. Heavy marking gets spread across the week instead of all in one evening.
Why did he not change my medicines on the first day?
Because he had not seen my test results yet. He wanted the reports and pictures in front of him before touching anything my earlier doctor had set.
How often do I have to go back?
At first fairly close together, so he can see how the joints answer. Later the gaps grow longer, and each visit ends with small adjustments if needed.
Some weeks the swelling is worse. Should I tell him?
Yes. He asked me to notice which weeks are bad, and what I was doing then. It helps him judge the plan at review.
If a joint suddenly turns hot and swollen overnight, do I wait for my next visit?
No. He was clear about this. A joint that suddenly turns hot, swollen and very painful cannot wait. Fever arriving with joint pain cannot wait either. Neither can a joint that will not move at all. All three mean hospital the same day.
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