Artritis (weight & mustle loss.)

mike26

has any one had same happen to them,
back in june last year i dammaged my shoulder (working)
phizio said i prob dammaged my roterey cuff on shoulder.
(still suffering with it (cant lift my arm above my head)
anyway after this accident i seemed to go downhill fast
youknow with our old enemy (arther)about 3 months passed and buy
that time i lost 3 stone and my mustle loss was dissapering fast.
hense i can just about pick up a cup of tea now.
still see phizio but trying to manage my PsA (get it under control)


wondered if any body else had this happen :roll: :roll:

dreamdaisy

Losing muscle tone can happen very quickly. I expect that like many of us it hurts you to move around so we try to keep that to a minimum which doesn't help matters. I regularly do my post op knee exercises to try and keep some tone to my legs and, when life permits, I try to tone my arm muscles just by lifting a couple of full tins (on a good day soup, on a bad one sweetcorn or sardines, on a very bad day an empty tin!), not doing anything fancy but just moving my arms as much as I can.

I lost three stones once when I was taken off all my meds (due to an enbrel reaction) and flaring badly. This was despite my living on a diet of full fat Coke, Hula hoops and ice cream. The body is a mysterious thing. DD

mike26

thanks 4 that dd
mike26

Mumof1

Muscle loss, yes, my Physio told me that I had lost 90% of my body muscle, due to being unable to do much because of pain.

Weight loss, no, infact I have put on weight due to same reason as above.