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Re: Help and advice please
Jona, I could hug you for that, you can do it, you can be more than arther.
Mike, Don’t you dare give in, we’ll all come down and tickle you! Or something.......
it’s a grin, honest!
Airwave!
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Re: Being diagnosed
Hi Sam47. Sorry to hear you are in so much pain. I can't help with your hip pain, but wanted to share that I am in a similar situation. I have the symptoms of arthritis but my bloods came back normal. I have just had an xray and I'm going for my results tomorrow. What I am worried about is, these results are normal, what then? My 3 pages of symptoms don't just go away! How rude to say its all in your head, being in constant pain is difficult, frustrating and draining and you wouldn't make it up. I said the same as you just to my hubby who is going to listen if all indicators are saying normal. Fingers crossed we get the answers soon.
dij1966
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Re: Does anybody struggle with exercise?
Hi @Jamielee , I really struggle with exercise too. I was still just about able to do mild pilates till lockdown, but after a fall in March my hip kicked off like crazy and just climbing into bed and lying down was agony. My physio, GP, MSK consultant and general advice on this site was to do particular exercises to strengthen the muscles around my rubbish hip, so I gave it ago, but the pain was so intense and it set off lingering inflammation in my hip, and it just made it so much worse that I stopped.
I have tried some of the exercises with Leon on this site a few weeks ago, and it was very gentle and nice to stretch other parts of my body. I still have some residual fitness from pilates, so I’d slot in a few gentle stretching moves into the routine as well, but after doing 10 gentle squats, two days in a row, I could barely walk around the house. So much for building up those muscles! The stretching exercises that pulled on attachments to my hip also aggravated it.
i will have a go at some of the other exercises, but it took so long for the inflammation to settle, and my job needs me to be on my feet quite a bit, so I can’t risk setting that off again. Any real exertion just sets me back further, so I’m finding it hard to know what to do for the best.
I’m sorry to hear you’re having to deal with all this so young. I’ve at least had the pleasure of abusing my body for 60 years, I hope you can get a treatment and exercise regime that works for you.
Lilymary
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Pets' Corner
As many of us use a photo of our pet as our account photo I thought that it may be a nice idea of setting up a Pets' Corner to put larger photos up, photos of them doing something daft, accounts of things that they do, how they support us and so forth. Vixen is the third cat that I have had since leaving the RAF in 1988. My first was called Arnie but he disappeared when my ex-wife moved in with me, I found him elsewhere in the village and brought him home several times but on each occasion he legged it again, if only I had known then what I was later to discover I would have legged it with him! Fluffy was my next cat and she passed away 4 years ago which drastically affected me, more so than my parents passing. I went spiralling downwards until friends presented me with Vixen, initially I was told that she was a boy so I called her Vulcan, that was until I took her to the Vets for her first check up, on chatting to the Vet he announced that he was a she and it was the quickest gender realignment he had ever done! Living alone and virtually housebound (especially now), I would not be without her. I have the names of all 3 cats tattooed on my arm beneath a picture of a Sabre-toothed tiger.
Mike1
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Re: Does anybody struggle with exercise?
@Jamielee I have OA in both of my feet and have had my big toe fusion in 2012 because of the pain and have OA in mind of my left foot since 2014, have had loads of steroid injections for pain which gives temporary pain relief and on daily painkillers.
I have sports massage once a month which helps abit and I am going to take up swimming as it's ment to be good if you have arthritis.
I hope you find some type of exsersice to relif your pain it's not easy living with pain.
