Hello, My name is Michael and I've just signed up here and reading all the discussions with all your stories makes me feel better. I believe I have osteoarthritis in both my knees and one hip, I'm only 45 years old and the doctors don't really take me too seriously and it's been 2 years since it's started. I'm fit, very…
Hi there, I got my diagnosis yesterday for osteoarthritis in the knee. I am 32 and also have sciatica and nerve damage in the spine. My mind is all over the place right now and not sure how to feel about the diagnosis. I’d like to talk to people who know what it’s like and maybe get some information and helpful tips in…
Thank you for letting me joined thia community. Just got diagnosed with RA yesterday. I tried to digest and sink it in but real hard, feel like the world is collapsed in front of me. Scare , fear and emotional. Wishes someone can tell me : it will be ok....
Hi I am new to this group and wonder if there are any fellow suffers out there? I have been on steroids under the advice of my consultant for over 2 years but don’t seem to be getting anywhere, as soon as I reduce the dose my symptoms return, the information I read never can give a time limit, it seems to vary from 18…
So, I’m nearly two weeks down the track, and things have improved. I’m in and out bed more easily, and only up in the night twice to go to the loo which is better than before. Washing and dressing has a more normal sequence, all though hair washing is still a challenging occupation!! I collect all my clothes over the rail…
Hello , I Hope you are all enjoying this lovely start to Spring 🌷 This is just a little update.!! It’s now a month after my left hip replacement and managing on one crutch most of the time. No pain anymore whilst sitting but still swelling in my foot and around knee and thigh and still a tightness and a protrusion around…
Well that's a mouthfull.. So after my lumbar decompression in 2023 ive been ok but the last 6 months the pins an needles an severe pain in my left hip and buttocks... Had a meds check with my quack ive been put on Amitriptyline 2 aday which has helped,had updated mri My surgeons first words never good news when they use…
I've just had a text from Lloyds Pharmacy Clinical Home Care who deliver my biologic pointing me to a letter from Amgen the manufacturers of Amgevita. The Amgevita injection pen is changing to a high concentration formulation - HCF. Apparently it's the same pen and same amount of medication but in a smaller amount of…
During the last few months I had noticed a drastic change in my strength and movement and decided to go to the GP for a check up. I was given a number of blood tests etc and the results indicate I have Myositis. My GP has made an urgent referral to rheumatology and I am waiting for this. I guess this will be when it will…
Hello, thank you for letting me join. I've never used an on line community before, but I was hoping it might help me understand my rheumatoid better, I also have osteoarthritis,
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