Hello! I’m 45 and have just been diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis, several months after I woke up feeling a little stiff and within the day unable to walk! Very scary!
Hello all, I am new to this forum because up till yesterday I did not know i would be a qualified Member! I was admitted to hospital a few weeks back with a hip infection, 5 days in hospital and 600 antibiotics later and it seems my infection has gone but I have arthritis in my hip and knee. This is a bit unfair because I…
Hi all Just starting on this journey, having already been diagnosed with mild Arthritus in right shoulder, hip and base of spine. All managed for a while by keeping active (I'm 76) and co-codomol. I now have knee probs. It's quite swollen and an X-ray suggests mild arthritis under the knee cap!!!!! The outside of the knee…
Hi everyone! I'm Jaclyn, age 33 and I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in March this year. Currently on methotrexate injections as tablets didn't work. No improvement as yet but hopefully things will improve soon. My biggest issue is my knees as both are very swollen with limited movement. I can't walk properly and…
Hi folks just saying hello. For maybe 8, 9 years i've had lots of back, flank and rib pain at times very intense, were i would struggle to pull my self out of bed. I always put this down to work. I drive for a living and thought sitting for long periods of time was the cause. Around 2 years ago i decided to get it checked…
Hello all, I was diagnosed ages 2 years old with Stills disease where the Dr told my mam I would go blind and have heart problems and die by the age of 12. When I was 11 in the Red Cross Memorial Hospital Taplow my mam asked how much longer I had to be told I was wrongly diagnosed and I actually had Chronic Juvenile…
Hi. Just thought I would say hello. I have osteoarthritis and already have a replacement hip.I need the other hip doing but unfortunately because of illness this has been cancelled indefinitely. I am very outgoing and do my best not to let it define me but as you all know this can be hard sometimes. I look forward to…
I am a female 29yrs of age. I started having problems with my knees last winter .Where they would become red and feel like they are dislocating. ( they never really did just the feeling) . I ignored it . Summer came and went I felt fine . When winter arrived this year it all started again. But worse . I read about winter…
Hi there, after about 30 years of suffering with a 'bad back' i had an MRI scan I have been diagnosed with DISH Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. Im just glad that I now know what is wrong with me, and am now trying to find out how to live with this, and try and stop it getting much worse. I got phiso, and have…
Hi all, I'm recently diagnosed with palindromic rheumatism and experiencing quite a lot of bad flare ups despite being on long acting naproxen. The next step is hydroxyquinine and I haven't really heard anything good about that! However I wondered if anyone had any other suggestions in terms of meds or managing flare ups?
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