Hi all, Hope you're all keeping as fit and pain free as is possible. Last Thursday was a bad day for me, the day before my step-son's wedding, I found both my ankles/feet giving me hell at work. The only description I can give which accurately sums up how my ankles felt was "brittle" and painful! I felt if I had jumped up…
Oh how I long to go to sleep at night and sleep through until the morning. I really miss that deep sleep rather than waking in the darkness with a hand, knee or any other body part in pain. Is this a thing of the past or do some meds overcome? At least the sun was shining here in London at 5am! Saph x
I had my first appt. with rheumatologst on Monday having had really bad joint pains for about 2 months. The pains had been attributed to my chrons disease but my chrons consultant wanted a rheumy opinion. I had been taking 15mg of pred daily along with pain killers which had helped but I was still in a lot of pain at…
I used to do a lot of sport - I coached judo, played squash, went to the gym, went rock climbing, cycling holidays... you get the idea. Now I struggle to walk round the supermarket. I have taken up crochet, and have almost completed a British Sign Language course which I hope to follow with the next level of it, and…
Hi!! I am feeling very grumpy today, found out that my claim for DLA has been rejected :shock: I know major surprise!! The problem I have is that they did not bother to contact any medical professional that I listed - i know know that was fault number one, I should have got reports! Although thankfully I did go to a…
Yay I go away in under three weeks time :-) xx
I am 25 years old and i have been feeling a little pain in my left knee since 2 weeks or so, it is there in the right knee too but almost like zero there. I dont feel it constantly, or continuously, i just feel it while walking up and down the stairs (up the stairs hurts more), i do not feel it while walking on flat…
Hi, I have recently been diagnosed with Cervical Spondylitis. I've had symptoms for around three years now which were quite mild but after a very severe attack in November it doesn't seem to want to settle. I had a hip replacement last May following three years of terrible pain from a major hip problem and this has been a…
I've been asked if I could post this as it might be of interest to anyone living near the area, not me though I live in Oxfordshire and I'm flipping well staying here, everytime I go out in my car I get done for speeding when I'm not, Thames Valley Police have nothing better to do other than to go out pick pocketing the…
This is get ting me down this last week,does anyone else have this problem.It is not helping when trying to get about as i am seven weeks post op tkr on right leg and over seven months tkr on other knee.I only seen Rheumy middle of May to check how i was doing on Sulpha.my gp is writing to them explaining about…
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