living with a chronic condition (part 4)

sammy10

Ruby_Moon wrote: »

I may be coming across as very upset (or aggressive you call it) now because lots of people have been rather unpleasant from the beginning.
My first posting was in no way agressive or negative, as explained, I was nervous about posting and very tentative.

All that has happened is the users on here have shown that I was right to be nervous because look at the welcome I did not get!

Im not clever enough to do mulitiple quotes here but want to comment on a couple of things you have said. I think I said before, its hard to read people by what they write as you cant read them like you do face to face. I missed your first post, you probably posted while I was writing. I type so slowly that half the forum could have posted in the time it takes me to write a line I have no problem with you or anyone on here and Im sure I have said things that have been taken a different way to how I meant them but Im thick so I cant help it :rotfl:

The other thing you mentioned which is on a totally different subject was pesticides. My Grandma used to live in a house with loads of fields out the back. Every year during the time they sprayed she was ill, she had flu like symptoms, stiff swollen joints and could barely move. Even the doctor said it was likely to be the pesticides.
She is now in a home and is suffering from dementia, makes me wonder if its linked

jazabelle

sammy10 wrote: »

Im not clever enough to do mulitiple quotes here but want to comment on a couple of things you have said.

Sorry to butt in, but I just learnt to do this myself! You see the quote button there is " next to it. You can click up to three of those, and they go red. So say you want to quote three people's posts, click those and then on the third on you click quote and it opens with them. Not sure how it works if the posts across more than one page though. Sorry if you actually didn't want to know how to do it!

sammy10

jazabelle wrote: »

Sorry to butt in, but I just learnt to do this myself! You see the quote button there is " next to it. You can click up to three of those, and they go red. So say you want to quote three people's posts, click those and then on the third on you click quote and it opens with them. Not sure how it works if the posts across more than one page though. Sorry if you actually didn't want to know how to do it!

Brilliant, thank you so much. I can pretend Im clever now:T

mesb210776

Hi. I'm Marcia, 33, married with a 9 and 3 year old boys. I have fibro, ibs, dyshidrosis eczema, prolapsed discs, degenerative disc disease and chronic (very, very!!) sciatica. Eczema mainly on hands, which is worse at night and when really hot or cold. fibro managable at mo, main problem is sciatica. Having had it on and off since I was 11, with episodes usually lasting 2 - 3 weeks, I have now had sciatica for over 3 months continuously!! Never had it at night, but now doesn't matter if I'm stood, sat or laid down it is there. Physio have told me only thing they can do is stretching exercises. I'm now having trouble walking as standing or walking for more than 3 - 5 minutes brings on tremendous pain, but physio just says stop and rest!! Waiting to hear about DLA appeal. Getting IB and have blue badge too, so fingers crossed. xxx

sammy10

goign to have sizure in hous on my own haet this

jazabelle

Hi Marcia! Nice to meet you. That sounds awful, I'm very sorry to hear that. Ugh, wish physios were more helpful!

Good luck with the DLA appeal! I just lost all the way to tribunal, so I hope you have much better luck!

jazabelle

sammy10 wrote: »

goign to have sizure in hous on my own haet this

Oh dear sammy, is there anyone you could call? Or a safe place you could put yourself? Sorry I'm really ignorant about this.

mesb210776

jazabelle wrote: »

Oh dear sammy, is there anyone you could call? Or a safe place you could put yourself? Sorry I'm really ignorant about this.

wot she said. I hope it's not a major seizure and that you have got yourself to a safe place and have someone to call.

mesb210776

jazabelle wrote: »

Hi Marcia! Nice to meet you. That sounds awful, I'm very sorry to hear that. Ugh, wish physios were more helpful!

Good luck with the DLA appeal! I just lost all the way to tribunal, so I hope you have much better luck!

What's made me laugh is my doc said he thought physios are useless and not what they used to be.... and he's married to one!!!

jazabelle

Hehe, oh dear. They must have some interesting discussions! I do agree though, as I just recently waited months to see one only for him to say there was nothing he could do, bye bye!

I saw one when I was younger who said I just needed to stand straighter and taped two long strips of plaster - from shoulder to hip across my back, so it pulled painfully if I didn't walk upright. The reason I walked slightly bent was due to pain! You know how much it hurts taking a small plaster off? Well imagine off an entire sensitive back! Awful.