Joint Injection - Help!

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Afternoon, donnas, I hope things are continuing to improve - keep resting! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,027
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Well done Donna

    you did good there didn't you? All being well things will start to improve for you now.

    Love and hugs

    toni xx
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hiya. I'm still resting but will probably need to go to work tomorrow. Friend and her Mum are taking me out for tea tonight with door to door chauffeuring service!


    Foot's strangely cold and feels lumpier than usual on the sole.


    Posted a big weepy moan on the working with arthritis page. Sometimes you just have to let it all out.
  • dachshund
    dachshund Member Posts: 9,155
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Donna.
    i went up the hospital monday and was told i have to have a cortizone injection in my hip at the back.
    i got a phone call to day i can have it on the 1'st
    nov thats quick i will let you know how i get on.
    joan xx
    take care
    joan xx
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Good luck, Joan!

    I thought they'd x-ray my toe before assaulting it with the needle, but I got the injection straight away at the clinic.

    Hope they prepare you properly for it and give you instructions on how to look after yourself!
  • dachshund
    dachshund Member Posts: 9,155
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Donna.
    i had a cortizone in july i had a xray as he put the needle in the xray showed him where to put the needle.
    i'm having this one in the back of my hip.
    joan xx
    take care
    joan xx
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,027
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    How are you today Donna?

    any better? I bet you are and I really hope recovering well from the jab?

    Joan Let us know when your jab is and we'll be right there with you.

    Love

    Toni xx
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hiya, thanks for checking in on me. I got through work.

    My foot is now on fire. Well, it feels like it's on fire after I did a bit of walking. Took me twenty minutes to walk to the chemist for my prescription. It usually takes five. (When I was on holiday last month I was walking about 4 hours a day). I rested with my feet up after dinner for a couple of hours and now I'm going to go out. I'm going to have to get taxis though and I never do that unless it's I'm out really late! Bus all the way!

    At least it's a sit down gig I'm going to. I hope it is anyway!

    Hoping my poor foot is better soon.
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh Donna... had hoped you'd be feeling a wee bit better today :?

    hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the gig... good plan using taxis :wink: and being able to sit down too. :D

    fingers crossed for improvement tomorrow. :!:

    Iris xxxx

    Joan.... hope your next jab helps your hip... as Toni syas let us know? so's we can be with you. :wink:
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have pins and needles in the toe as well!
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    This is really getting me down now. I want my foot back, arthritis pain and all. I am used to walking about an hour a day every day at least and it's only when I regularly walk more than this that my foot flares up properly. I have pins and needles and numbness in my big toe, my gait is completely wonky (walking on the outside of my foot) and I'm going to have to take my crutch out with me again today.

    I'm starting to worry that something has gone wrong.
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Returning to an old topic: My foot never recovered from the steroid injection and my toe is properly on fire again after a longish walk at the weekend. I have an ice pack on it, but it's not really helping.

    Really fed up.
  • mp1952
    mp1952 Member Posts: 425
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi donnas

    Sorry to hear about your toe.

    Have you had it x-rayed recently? I am wondering if the joint has deteriorated further ...

    I used to have severe pain in my left big toe but it fused by itself and thst seemed to sort out the pain!

    Marion
  • donnas
    donnas Member Posts: 119
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm thinking the same. My right big toe has a huge ridge on the forefoot, which isn't there on the left. A podiatrist (when treating me for in ingrown toenail) mentioned a condition where the pain will go away due to eventual fusion in passing but she wasn't very interested as she'd been asked to treat my toe as a favour after I had my toenail removed elsewhere. I think I need to get it looked at again. I hate having to get the bus to work, but I can't walk the mile and a half every day with this pain.
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi donna
    I think it would be a good idea to request an xray as marion suggested.

    sorry that it is causing so much grief, I can understand how painful it must be.
    Hope you can get it sorted soon.
    Take care
    juliepf x

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