good days and bad days

emmarose33

Hi. . . today is a bad day
I have been a bit surprised recently about the contrast between my 'good days' and 'bad days' (never had this before) -
Ususally they alternate, one day good, next day bad, then good again. . although yestrday and the day before was 2 good days in a row
I can tell as soon as I wake up which it will be, either my body aches awfully or it doesn't. On a good day I am sooo much better than on a bad day. Why? what causes it? Because if it's something simple like how much sleep I get or how much alcohol I drink the day before, then I'd really like to know!
Does anyone else have the same thing, a massive contrast? It affects my mood too. Yesterday I was all smiles, today I basically start crying everytime I have to move, and my 1 yr old really isn't helping matters!

joanlawson

Hi Emmarose

Sorry to hear you are having a bad day. I'm afraid you are not alone; maybe the wet,cold weather isn't helping. I think these alternating good days/bad days seem to come as part of the territory with arthritis. I have just had a bad patch myself, but now I'm through it and feel OK. What causes it? That is a mystery to me too. I have just had to accept that it happens, and make the most of the good patches.

Hope you will soon feel better

Joan

mistywillow

joanlawson wrote:

Hi Emmarose

Sorry to hear you are having a bad day. I'm afraid you are not alone; maybe the wet,cold weather isn't helping. I think these alternating good days/bad days seem to come as part of the territory with arthritis. I have just had a bad patch myself, but now I'm through it and feel OK. What causes it? That is a mystery to me too. I have just had to accept that it happens, and make the most of the good patches.

Hope you will soon feel better

Joan

Hi Emmarose
Sorry you are having a bad day today. Its strange isnt it, you can go to bed after a good day feeling really upbeat and then wham, you wake up and wonder whats happened. I know that some research was done on the effect of the weather on arthritis, and it was suggested that negative ions in the air during bad weather can effect the joint capsule. Also because arthritis involves inflammation, the factors in your body that mediate inflammation are systemic, ie they travel around all of your body and can affect all parts of it not just remain contained in the specific joint. This is particularly the case with RA. Anyway if all else fails, perhaps we could set ourselves up as weathermen/women On that note I also read in 'new scientist' some time ago that you have as much chance of correctly predicting the weather as the weather scientists if you predict that tomorrows weather is going to be the same as today!! (as weather moves in cycles).

Hi Joan
sorry you have been going through a bad patch, hope you are on the up now and back to 'doing' your art gallaries.

Cyber hugs to you both and a kick up the backside to arthur
Gillx

page35

Hi
im having a bad day too, and seem to be getting more and more bad days and im moody and tired. ment to be going to a 2yr olds birthday party in an hour, cant wait :roll:
Still will keep my 2yr old happy for couple off hours.
wishing more good days for us all.

emmarose33

page35 wrote:

Hi
im having a bad day too, and seem to be getting more and more bad days and im moody and tired. ment to be going to a 2yr olds birthday party in an hour, cant wait :roll:
Still will keep my 2yr old happy for couple off hours.
wishing more good days for us all.

Ahh, we have 1yr olds party later. . . luckily my prtner is off work today so I'm dragging him with me!! Plus it's indoors, with seats, instead of at the park on the grass.

The bad days were previously quite controlled by the weather (when we spent 2 weeks in florida it was like I didn't have it!) but recently the weather hasn't had much effect.
Doesn't help that we were up at 3am with a screaming baby.

mistywillow

page35 wrote:

Hi
im having a bad day too, and seem to be getting more and more bad days and im moody and tired. ment to be going to a 2yr olds birthday party in an hour, cant wait :roll:
Still will keep my 2yr old happy for couple off hours.
wishing more good days for us all.

Hi Page
sorry you are having a bad time of it too. Maybe you can get a nice cup of tea and bit of birthday cake at the party while your 2 year old is hopefull having fun too!!
Hope you start getting some good days soon
Gillx

page35

Hi again
emma i normaly love kids parties work in a playgroup so always got kids around me but like i said am right moody lately and bad days are trying to take over. hope you enjoy the party, no hope off my oh coming with me, but trying to get my son to come to hes 13yrs (dont know whos the moodyist me or him) :roll:

hi Gill
how are you now? i havent been on here for few days so good to see you posting again.
you must think im so moanie.(your right i am)think i was hoping for to much may be, thought meds would kick in by now and all would be well but still waiting. anyway it might still happen you never know.
Page

mistywillow

page35 wrote:

Hi again
emma i normaly love kids parties work in a playgroup so always got kids around me but like i said am right moody lately and bad days are trying to take over. hope you enjoy the party, no hope off my oh coming with me, but trying to get my son to come to hes 13yrs (dont know whos the moodyist me or him) :roll:

hi Gill
how are you now? i havent been on here for few days so good to see you posting again.
you must think im so moanie.(your right i am)think i was hoping for to much may be, thought meds would kick in by now and all would be well but still waiting. anyway it might still happen you never know.
Page

Hi Page
No I absolutely dont think you are moany and anyway you have every reason to moan and this is the place to do it. It does seem to take a long time for the meds to work but if you have been taking them for about 3 months and there is no change maybe you should revisit your rhemy as he might want to try something else.
Happy partying. Oh I remember those days. My eldest was really shy and woudnt ever play with the other kids unless I was right beside her :roll: She soon grew out of that when she hit teenagehood!!!!
Gillx

skezier

Just a big ((((((( ))))))) to Emma and Page and hope you are both feeling a bit better. Hope to that you enjoyed your parties, didn't eat too much and weren't sick x

ninakang

Big hugs to everyone who's feeling poorly and I'm going to join in too! Oh, kids' parties, we have one to go to tomorrow. I wish and wish we could get out of it, but no chance, the girls are so excited.

I woke up feeling achy but did that thing of "getting on with it" which we all do, I'm sure. Got up early to do the housework, ferried the girls to ballet and then did the food shopping. By the time we'd unpacked the shopping and I'd made lunch, I was done in and curled up on the settee. Fell asleep in what I thought was a comfortable position but woke up an hour later, my arm and leg killing me. Have had just enough energy to cook the girls' tea and left the washing up to hubby! I didn't even enjoy my tea - chicken and bacon pasta bake, usually one of my favourites.

The worst thing is I can't even go swimming tomorrow as usual with my girlies because of "time of the month" (sorry to announce it, especially to the blokes reading!), I usually feel so much better after a swim. Try explaining that to a 5 year old :-(

Thanks for "listening". I'm fed up of being in pain and unhappy too.

Nx

skezier

Oh Nina a ((( ))) for you as well. I really hope you all feel ok again soon Cris x

colinone

Hi Emma,
As Gill says it has lots to do with the inflammation in your body I think that’s what causes that flu like feeling too. I seem to get more bad than good days of late but when the good ones come along I can often get 2 or three days on the run then perhaps bad for a week or so.
If only we had the answer to it we would all feel great. People often say its your attitude and be more positive but that’s hard to do when you feel so ill and the constant pain is driving you mad.
Things I do to help when I’m feeling bad, I find if I try to keep myself occupied it takes your mind off things, Just as a point of interest you mentioned alcohol do you drink much, I used to drink quite heavy but stopped 3 years 5 months 6 days ago LOL do I miss it I sure do. I went on the wagon because the Rheumy refused to treat me unless I stopped drinking but that’s another story. I find that on the days I don’t have the flu feeling I’m better even if the Arthur is bad but when you have them both at the Same time its bad. Like most of you I just get on with things but find if I’m tired through lack of sleep I feel much worse. Are you taking Prednisolone that can cause insomnia. Well take care Emma hope you start feeling better soon.

Gill good post its amazing the effect that you get when inflammation is up it feels like you have arthritis from head to foot.

Nina well its just to much information for me, but fact of life and glad I’m a man, we get off quite easy don’t we.

Page hope your better soon

Joan have i missed something or you just never told us
Colin

joanlawson

Hi Colin

Thank you for asking. No, I didn't mention it because in comparison to other people, my problems weren't that bad. I had a week of bad pain in my legs, down the whole length. Don't know why, and now it is quite a bit better. I also had toothache caused by an infection in my gum, and the dentist put me on two different antibiotics, which made me feel unwell.

Back to normal again now ie. hobbling along, but not in bad pain.

Joan

livinglegend

My bad days are really erratic. I know that if I have a good day and overdo things, (easy if you have an especially good day), I pay for it the following day with extra aches and pains. The rest is random.


Joseph 8)

mistywillow

livinglegend wrote:

My bad days are really erratic. I know that if I have a good day and overdo things, (easy if you have an especially good day), I pay for it the following day with extra aches and pains. The rest is random.


Joseph 8)

Hi
I agree my bad days are totally random. Have been improving over the last couple of weeks with increased mxt, but yesterday woke up feeling dreadful, had to rest up which I HATE!! Feeling better today though.

Gillx

joyous

hi all does any else suffer if they have a drink or 2 i do feel very achy the day after , not been out for a while credit crunch , but when i do i notice that im very achy and i seem to get drunk much quicker than every one else is that the drink as well i always make sure i have a big meal before i go out on the razz , i no we are only ment to drink in moderation on these drugs which for me is only once a week when we can afford it my liver functions are always ok . so its a thing i put up with cant stay in for the rest of my life , its not the same if eveyone is havina drink and your not . horrible day here in sunny stockport

lorraines

I can never have adrink always makes me feel rotten the next day so sadly had to give up the Baileys my worse days are always when I'm tired so don't know if tiredness makes me ache or aches are making me tired (LIKE TODAY) but tomorrow is another day but don't you just sometimes get fed up with it :?:

ninakang

Yes, Lorraine, am very fed up with all the pain and feeling so miserable. I'm just glad I have all of you to talk to otherwise I would go mad!

And I'm sorry about my last post on this thread - I can't believe I announced that to you all without warning, I must be knackered! I know I'm frank but not that frank!

Nx

mistywillow

ninakang wrote:

Yes, Lorraine, am very fed up with all the pain and feeling so miserable. I'm just glad I have all of you to talk to otherwise I would go mad!

And I'm sorry about my last post on this thread - I can't believe I announced that to you all without warning, I must be knackered! I know I'm frank but not that frank!

Nx

Hi
Its a bummer I cant drink any more either without feeling really dreadful. I never drank much but I did enjoy a glass of wine if we went out with friends. It isnt worth the sickness i get if I do have one now though, and it goes straight to my head, even one glass and i become really stupid
Gillx :roll:

Nina i'm intregued (sp??) exactly what did you announce that I missed???????
xx