Legs Refuse to move!
jopp87
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i everyone, I am sorry for the essay that is about to follow! I am not hoping for a diagnosis or any medical advice here, I just wonder if anyone else has experienced the same thing -
I have had jaw surgery in July, to shave down the base of my skull -so it was very close to some nerves though these were mainly facial nerves. Since September I have been having increasingly bad trouble with my joints, it started with a fluey thing that brought insanely sensitive toes, feet, wrists and hands with it. All of those swell up reguarly and somedays I am barely able to walk or hold anything but others can manage a trip out with just pain. However, since the weather turned in October I have been markedly worse, I cant get to the other end of the house without crutches and cant stand long enough to make a brew most days. My knees abd most recently hips have started to batter - and I am constantly exhausted. Most days i feel like I have gone 10 rounds with Tyson!! It seems to be like a game at the moment 'pick a joint any joint' as I don't know which ones are going to be worse from day to day.
The doctor origibally stated reactive arthritis and gave no advice but has now changed his mind to it being Fibromyalgia, needless to say I really dont want this! The one main thing that makes hin suspect Fibro is that last week, I dared to go our and my ankle point blank refused to move- I was shouting at it to bend and it just wouldn't, then the next day my legs just refuses to move - this happened about 5 times for a few minutes each time - I was screaming at them to move but they just wouldnt. When they fibally did they felt heavy and stiff - has abybody else experienced this with arthritis or fibro? I have an appt in Dec with a rheumatologist.
Thank you for your time
Jo
I have had jaw surgery in July, to shave down the base of my skull -so it was very close to some nerves though these were mainly facial nerves. Since September I have been having increasingly bad trouble with my joints, it started with a fluey thing that brought insanely sensitive toes, feet, wrists and hands with it. All of those swell up reguarly and somedays I am barely able to walk or hold anything but others can manage a trip out with just pain. However, since the weather turned in October I have been markedly worse, I cant get to the other end of the house without crutches and cant stand long enough to make a brew most days. My knees abd most recently hips have started to batter - and I am constantly exhausted. Most days i feel like I have gone 10 rounds with Tyson!! It seems to be like a game at the moment 'pick a joint any joint' as I don't know which ones are going to be worse from day to day.
The doctor origibally stated reactive arthritis and gave no advice but has now changed his mind to it being Fibromyalgia, needless to say I really dont want this! The one main thing that makes hin suspect Fibro is that last week, I dared to go our and my ankle point blank refused to move- I was shouting at it to bend and it just wouldn't, then the next day my legs just refuses to move - this happened about 5 times for a few minutes each time - I was screaming at them to move but they just wouldnt. When they fibally did they felt heavy and stiff - has abybody else experienced this with arthritis or fibro? I have an appt in Dec with a rheumatologist.
Thank you for your time
Jo
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Hi Jo
I just replied to your thread on the Helplines forum.
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