Almost 3/4 of people with OA in constant pain

Melrymax
Melrymax Member Posts: 226
edited 18. Aug 2012, 10:51 in Living with Arthritis archive
http://m.nursingtimes.net/5044680.article

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  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Only 3/4? I reckon we should all be talking to the other 1/4 :wink:
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  • Melrymax
    Melrymax Member Posts: 226
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    :D lol sticky- made my morning already!!! Very good point though- I am having to take the morning of work to drug myself up and wait and see if i feel well enough to go in because I've been really sore recently and awake most the night :( I wonder how the other 1/4 live? :)
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I can't see that they are pain-free, it could be that their levels are not as intense or they just shove it to one side and get on with stuff. It's a challenge not to allow pain to dominate my life because it's constant - I do my best to ignore it and that diminishes it too. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I am in the 3/4 bracket....and would love to be in the 1/4...were on earth do they get these nums from...
    Love
    Barbara
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Melrymax wrote:
    http://m.nursingtimes.net/5044680.article

    I am most interested to read this article but one has to register and I am not receiving a confirmation email. I will not be deterred so have now emailed them direct. :D

    Enjoy the sunny weather :D 8)

    Elna x
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  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I found the article via another route but not sure if it was the full text as it was very short.

    I would say that I am lucky enough and most grateful to place myself in the 1/4 bracket because I am most definitely not in constant pain. There are things that I cannot do anymore or find difficult but to me that is different.

    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.

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