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Morning KC,

we're due some warmish weather for the next few days so make sure you take time to enjoy that sweetie,
xx

Karmacat

youareallhelpingme wrote: »

Evening KC, I have been around lurking and reading, sorry to hear things are off balance for you.
Thank you :kisses3:

One thing that stands out was that you said you arm was so painful it felt like it was broken and the tshirt hurt the swelling - please please go back to your consultant as that is not at all right. They need to sort your medication, pain makes life very miserable. It drains you completely and I can see that it would knock the life/confidence/energy out of you.
I understand what you're saying - I've been discharged by the rheumatologist and referred to a "Limb Specialist" :rotfl:appointment at the end of October, and I've got the results of the MRI - if any of the pain is about arthritis/rheumatism, all they can do at this level is tell you to take paracetemol, truly, thats all there is.

Once the pain is sorted you wont be "afraid" of the winter and its "effects".

I know there may be other factors that you dont want to go into on here, but start by fixing one thing and the rest will follow xxxxxx

Well, that's very true, isn't it! Thank you again :kisses3:


Happily for me, I feel quite different today :j thats how this stuff goes - and even now - especially now - although I have health problems, I do wake up happily :dance: which I know sounds odd after what I was posting yesterday. What can I say, I'm a bit all or nothing :o:o:o:o:o:o but I really appreciate everyone who tried to help yesterday, its very kind of you all.

I *do* still have to take care of energy flows and all that, so today started off well - instead of coming on here for ages, I sat with my morning coffee downstairs, and watched the Top Gear Bethlehem Special :D:D and was laughing out loud at it, except when poor James got taken to hospital....

Anyway, I'm on here, and in half an hour or so, I'll pop off to the local street market thats now on every Saturday morning. It only started this month, and I haven't managed to get there yet, so I've no idea what its like. But I can also pop to the good charity shop round there, and the library - it would be lovely if it could turn into something like Cheery's visit to the WI, here's hoping.

Then, um a fox has found the mulch bag thats been sitting in the garden completely *irresistible* - for the last two nights, the plastic at the top has been shredded :rotfl: so I think I'd better start using it. It will be doing what its meant to do, after all! And I *did* do some gardening in the afternoon, which is why I didn't open the forum back up - Approved Food cardboard boxes are down as mulch in two more places, I've just got the big one to use now :j

And tomorrow, I'm off to my sister's :j:j:j Present day life is fine, even with aches and pains

MrsMoo2U

Sounds like a good day planned. We have a fox that visits our garden. The neighbour complained about it as he said we were attracting all kinds of problems for his children. Idiot! He also complained when he saw a hedgehog on our patio. Pratt! Hence I got the fence last year. He agreed to pay half, he hasnt paid a bean! Liar!

Oops sorry KC, didn't mean to rant about the neighbour. Glad you are feeling better today too.

Triciaxx

KC wrote : 'I understand what you're saying - I've been discharged by the rheumatologist and referred to a "Limb Specialist" appointment at the end of October, and I've got the results of the MRI - if any of the pain is about arthritis/rheumatism, all they can do at this level is tell you to take paracetemol, truly, thats all there is.'

You have to get down to your GP and explain that you can't function with the level of pain. Paracetamol doesn't touch my pain at all and I eventually got prescribed Diclofenac. It has made quite a difference. She was most unsympathetic and pretty much said "Get on with it. It's just arthritis".

So I referred myself to our local falls team - I've had a few where I lost my balance - and they have been great. A physio came out and devised some exercises and I have 24 weeks support from them. It's been 8 weeks now and I'm finding a difference. There is a walk I like to do along a 'Promenade' which was built to allow the locals to see a great view. I haven't been up there for about 3 weeks and I walked the whole length in one go the other day. Little victories.

I did go through a stage like you and eventually the 'S*d 'em, I'll show the barstewards' gene kicked back in. It's not easy to feel that you can't do what you used to and that you probably never will again - but you did it when you could. How bad would you feel now if you had not done the things you have?

Have a (((())))

Karmacat

MrsMoo2U wrote: »

Sounds like a good day planned. We have a fox that visits our garden. The neighbour complained about it as he said we were attracting all kinds of problems for his children. Idiot! He also complained when he saw a hedgehog on our patio. Pratt! Hence I got the fence last year. He agreed to pay half, he hasnt paid a bean! Liar!

Oops sorry KC, didn't mean to rant about the neighbour. Glad you are feeling better today too.

No problem ranting about neighbours I'm fairly lucky here - there are slight weirdnesses, of course, as there are everywhere, but no pounding music in the evening I'll put up with a lot else if there's no pounding music

Triciaxx wrote: »

KC wrote : 'I understand what you're saying - I've been discharged by the rheumatologist and referred to a "Limb Specialist" appointment at the end of October, and I've got the results of the MRI - if any of the pain is about arthritis/rheumatism, all they can do at this level is tell you to take paracetemol, truly, thats all there is.'

You have to get down to your GP and explain that you can't function with the level of pain. Paracetamol doesn't touch my pain at all and I eventually got prescribed Diclofenac. It has made quite a difference. She was most unsympathetic and pretty much said "Get on with it. It's just arthritis".

So I referred myself to our local falls team - I've had a few where I lost my balance - and they have been great. A physio came out and devised some exercises and I have 24 weeks support from them. It's been 8 weeks now and I'm finding a difference. There is a walk I like to do along a 'Promenade' which was built to allow the locals to see a great view. I haven't been up there for about 3 weeks and I walked the whole length in one go the other day. Little victories.

Thats *very* interesting, Tricia! The pain on Monday night when I felt like I'd broken my arm was after I'd done an hour or so in the garden *without* a painkiller. I honestly don't know where I am in the scale of how bad these things are. I know I lurch about like my dad did very often - he rolled like a sailor, tho he'd never been to sea - so I'm very stiff, at least.

I did go through a stage like you and eventually the 'S*d 'em, I'll show the barstewards' gene kicked back in. It's not easy to feel that you can't do what you used to and that you probably never will again - but you did it when you could. How bad would you feel now if you had not done the things you have?

Have a (((())))

Thank you :kisses3: Thats a good question you're asking. Of course, it would be horrendous, if I'd not done the things I have done. I don't feel like I've made the most of my life so far, but then, which of us has, except in ghost written autobiographies?

I think I've pretty much made the most of today so far Wandered off to the new market, bought some chilis - 12 for £1, felt so good not to give that money to a supermarket! And some bread made from spelt flour :j really expensive, but great as a treat.

And I met an *amazing* guy with his own mushroom company - he was a management wallah till he didn't fancy the move his company wanted him to make, and now he manages a couple of country estates for someone, and a couple of woods he manages for free, in return for being allowed to grow his own mushrooms in the woods, and thats his secondary income - amazing bloke! He runs courses, he sells inoculated logs, and he sells spawn for you to inoculate your own logs. Thing is, he told me that any broadleaved logs can be used (anything that sheds its leaves), and the logs need a shady damp place, like you'd find in a wood. And I have a north facing fence on clay soil that would be perfect, with an ash tree waiting to be felled, its too close to my house (three feet away :eek:) I could really get excited about this :j:j:j

Done more tidying up in the garden too - I *think* its almost the last of the stones and soil from the kitchen border of the patio, chopped back a bit more buddleia, put down some big pieces of hardboard as mulch on grass. I *wish* I'd done it before, it'll make everything a lot easier to tame so that I can get *my* stuff in. My sister's round tomorrow, so she'll take the soil for her garden, it needs a top up apparently.

And I found The Edible Gardener at the library! I'm chuffed with that :j

ZTD

Triciaxx wrote: »

You have to get down to your GP and explain that you can't function with the level of pain. Paracetamol doesn't touch my pain at all and I eventually got prescribed Diclofenac. It has made quite a difference.

Well I started with paracetamol, then naxproxen (which was crap for me), then onto Diclofenac which finally worked. I also have a few opiates knocking about.

Some people are very sensitive to opiates. If you see them floating around going "Wooo...", then you know they're one of them.

Unfortunately, I'm not.

Triciaxx wrote: »

She was most unsympathetic and pretty much said "Get on with it. It's just arthritis".

At that point you find a new GP. There's enough of them.

Karmacat

You know what puzzles me about painkillers? Its whether they let me do stuff that creates further harm to my joints.... thats what really bugs me, and why I don't take very many. When I mentioned that to the rheumatologist I got such an automatic "oh, of course not" answer I couldn't trust it - I like chapter and verse, and she was practically pushing me out of the door at the time.

Do you know any references about that issue, Z? And I'm sorry you've had such pain tooo....

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

And some bread made from spelt flour :j really expensive, but great as a treat.

Have you got a breadmaker? If so you can make your own. There's a recipe out there which I use, and it gives a well risen loaf with a bit of a nutty taste.

Karmacat

I'm not sure yet if it agrees with me ... dont have a breadmaker, but I do have an all singing all dancing food processor

There's a question for you a few posts up, Z, about painkillers.

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

You know what puzzles me about painkillers? Its whether they let me do stuff that creates further harm to my joints.... thats what really bugs me, and why I don't take very many.

The short answer is no. Remember your joints aren't being damaged by what you're doing, they're being damaged by your immune system. You could lie in bed immobile and they will still be getting degraded. Anti-inflamatories will actually help (slightly) in that instance in that your immune system will not be attracted to the area by the inflammation.

If it's not there, then it's not attacking there...

If it had been osteoarthritis, then the answer would have been slightly more complicated, but the upshot of that is "by the time you feel the pain, it has already happened".

Besides, in general, the more you use something, the more your body will strengthen it. It then becomes an arms race between your auto-immune problem and your growth system. If you can only use it with tablets, then take the tablets.

Keep an eye out on your other internal organs though - you don't want a peptic ulcer for example.

Karmacat wrote: »

When I mentioned that to the rheumatologist I got such an automatic "oh, of course not" answer I couldn't trust it - I like chapter and verse, and she was practically pushing me out of the door at the time.

Do you know any references about that issue, Z? And I'm sorry you've had such pain tooo....

No real references alas.