Those of you with long memories may remember back to earlier this year when a steroid injection into my neck was cancelled due to a positive pregnancy test which as I'm 57, single, have a coil and no s*x life was a bit of a surprise! Two urine tests at my GPs were also positive. Anyway after several blood tests and an…
Does anyone else have problems with them? I don't mean the ones you make at home but the ones in cafes. And I don't even mean the ones that come with their own scaffolding and have to be dismantled floor by floor before even those with working fingers can tackle them :roll: What I do mean is that, with the arthritis…
Hi everyone. Firstly, although i'm mostly querying ankylosing spondylitis here, if anyone with an alternative form of arthritis has information they can share, i'd appreciate hearing it! Secondly, pardon my ignorance on all issues arthritis and AS. I'm rather new to this. I'm in a relatively new relationship with a woman…
I saw my spinal consultant yesterday and he confirmed that I had had a slipped disc which was pressing on my sciatic nerve and caused my sciatica last year. The pain lasted for about 6 months and then stopped. In the interim, I was seeing a chiropractor, doing yoga etc etc as well as lots of painkillers. Every time I did…
How can I stop a tubigrip sliding down my thigh
Hi All m0150 m0150 m0150 m0150 As you may know i have had reactive Arthritis for the past year and i have struggled at times with the pain and the depression that comes with it. It seems like i am possibly on the mend. i have woken up every day this week with no stiff fingers, only pain is in my index fingers which has a…
The last time I saw a rheumatologist, two years ago, he suggested that I might benefit from going to a pain management clinic. As I've said in another post I've now got OA in my hands, feet, knees, spine, painful shoulders, fibromyalgia and hip bursitis on both sides, so every day is painful. I'm sticking with the…
I've got OA in hands, feet, knees and spine as well as fibromyalgia and bilateral greater trochanteric pain syndrome (that's the posh new name for trochanteric bursitis). Over the past two months I've been waking up with very painful shoulders, both sides. It improves during the day, but my shoulders just ache constantly.…
So, I have started to sort and declutter and I'm trying to take it steady and do a little at a time rather than blitz a room like I did pre-arthritis! So far I'm doing ok and have a list of to do jobs. I've even recruited a friend to come over for a day soon to get up to the cupboards I can't reach! Next week I have my…
I am going to ask a question on here as , and I'm sure you know this, I rarely get the time to ask the professionals. When the medication finally starts to work and heaven knows when that will be, will I be pain free and able to pursue such pastimes as golf. Currently the symptoms are back with a vengeance and I was wrong…
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