Has anyone found that modifying your diet significantly helps to reduce your arthritis symptoms? I'm a heavy coffee drinker (5/6 cups a day) and have read that coffee can be oddly both pro-inflammatory as well as anti-inflammatory, so it's a bit of an enigma. Anyone experienced improvement after reduction of coffee intake…
I feel very guilty that I've been AWOL for ages and now I'm back to moan. I've not had a great time this year. My rheumatologist forgot to make the referral to the pain clinic /MRI but luckily she responded really quickly when I contacted her via PALS, what really annoyed me was that if my Orths consultant/his admin had…
Well, had my appt with the rheumatologist last week and am pretty depressed now. His attitude was its just oesto-arthritis - suck it up - take painkillers, nothing we can do, come off your steriods, and go away. I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis in December 1999, was very ill for the subsequent 6 years till they got…
This may seem a selfish question on my part as I know there are people on here who are suffering an awful lot more than me but want to know if this is normal or just me. I have recently been told I have severe arthritis in both hips and am now on a waiting list for one to be replaced...both eventually At the moment most…
Yesterday I was prescribed Tramadol. I was instructed to take two straight away and then every 4-6 hours. I took the two at 11 am whilst I was at work. What an effect! I was well spaced, never known anything like it. For the first time in nearly a year I didn't have any pain! I think I wrote some gobbledegook that…
Hello, we have probably all heard of miracle cures. Has anyone any experience of this one? web link removed Sound too good to be true so, sadly, it probably is. Sue I am sorry Sue, this website is entirely advert asking us to buy some drops that will cure bone damage. As such I have had to delete the link. I think readers…
Just wondering if anyone suffers from costochondritis? Several times since commencing on this journey that is RA..if felt pain in my chest...best way to describe it mostly is like ive done a lot of excercise while wearing an underwire bra!! Sore.. but nothing to alarm me...and i have mentioned this to Rheumy who didnt seem…
Hi everyone. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Vic and I have 4 children 1 dog 1 grumpy lovely partner. I have ankylosing spondylitis. I've not tried any other forums or spoken to anyone who has AS but I have come to a point now after being diagnosed for 1 year but had symptoms since early 20's ( I'm 40 now). I…
I'm 8 weeks post op (today) from a left TKR. The scar seems to becoming more raised daily but I do hypertrophically scar (I make too much scar tissue), so I'm not surprised by this. The scar itself feels extremely tight and when I try to do some of my post-op exercises I can feel the scar trying to move, but failing to do…
I am trying to find someone local to communicate with. :sun: :sun: :D
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