Where do you go to my lovely!?.

mellman01
mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
edited 15. Sep 2009, 07:28 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi all can anyone tell me the best thing to do if you have a flare is it a) stay in bed and hide until it passes, b) drag yourself downstairs and plop you flipper on the sofa and make yourself feel better by watching Jeremy Kyle lecture brain dead numpties all day whilst getting the war office to make me large cups of T and feed me loads of biscuits and pain killers, or is it c)get up and force yourself to move about even though it feels like your legs will explode any minute and you have rats chewing at your knee joints and you are hallucinating due to way to much Tramadol?. :? :wink:

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  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Mellman

    I would think, whatever you find the most comfortable with the options you have given. Probably not a good idea to eat loads of biccies if you are not exercising aye? Tempting though it is! Best to sleep off the hallucinations. When you are asleep you are not in pain. So the choice is yours if you take that road, bed, settee, or floor, whichever is the most comfortable and out of everyone's way. No nagging from the war office then. :shock: :roll:

    I do hope you feel a little brighter very soon.

    Luv
    Elna x
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  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Having spent many weeks doing 'A', or 'B'.
    I suggest 'C'.

    For me, it hurts just as much being idle and feeling very sorry for myself, as it does getting off my sorry 'A£$e' and moving about.
    When I've active, I seem to do/find things that help take my mind off what my bodies doing.

    Thats a 10 - 65 good buddy. (yer sad eh)

    Rob x
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  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    pixyandfaries wrote:
    if im alone i hide under the duvet if aimees home im on the soffa under my blanki shes a good girl and gets me what ever i need :wink:

    I know you hide under yer duvet pixyandfaries you were entrenched there the other day when you had a flare it was in one of your posts!,I like the idea of using your nipper as a goffer I will have to try that with ours mind you it's me that normally does all the work, some days I sound like my parents, turn the flippin light off when you leave a room and why is your mate phoning you now when you have been at school with them all day,and are you still on the dam phone, see I'm off again!. :lol::wink:
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,230
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    HI Melman!!!
    I love it!!!
    Jeremy Kyle every time for me!!! :wink:
    Seriously we are all different and I tend to think - rest a bit (that's where Jezza comes in handy!) with all necessary pain releif and ice packs.
    Then start to do a bit - not too quickly.
    Hope you feeel a bit better soon
    :)
    take care
    toni x
  • topgirl
    topgirl Member Posts: 290
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    LOL!!!!...
    Jeremy Kyle and Tramadol....!!!...great stuff....
    for me i try very hard for C but its usually A or B....
    Hey he should do a programme on DLA with us lot verus the decision makers...
    Mmmmm...could possibly get a bit violent........ha ha...
    xxx
  • debbierose
    debbierose Member Posts: 403
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I all ways keep on going, when I have a flare up, but not to day the bloody thing has got me in mu toes knees and hip and elbow.
    so on hubbies orders I,m dripping tears lieing on the settee replying to posts and reading posts.
    urrr, just a big woz to day.
    Dexter doodle is saying hey whats going on with my two legged pet human.
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I have to keep going too.If I return to bed I seize up.There was a time I spent most of the day in bed and I just hated it.

    Lots of love Tkachev
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  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi I have OA. Even so it still seems to have a type of flare every now and then, when all my joints seem to hurt! I would be tempted to stay in bed, but for me lying down is often more uncomfortalbe than moving a bit and getting the joints going. I don't do anything much in the way of housework, but just wander rouind and if its nice, go into the garden and wander for a short time. That makes me tired, so I can come in and either go to bed and sleep a while or sleep on the sofa. :wink:
    Love Sue

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