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Moneyfordreams

Hope your foot is better soon and don't mind my two penneth

Try and think of them like a suspension bridge held together with many bits and pieces. ( I use my hand, spread fingers and bounce them a bit to explain this analogy). bones, tendons, muscles, ligaments, Fascia, subcutaneous tissue. Any one of these can gripe and irritate with or without injury. Then our bodies adjust to a new gait to protect the sore bit and cause more pain Sometimes diagnosis is glaringly obvious, or one or 2 differentials can be excluded with time to give diagnoses. That's when physios rally are useful after acute pain has hopefully has settled.

You are a similar age to me I believe, so we can all have a bit of wear and tear (sorry ) Several things can be painful with feet and physios do have specialist assessment skills (lower limb teams) to establish your gait, walking pattern to see if this aggravates your issue. They can suggest any orthotics to support areas of need and further treatments sometimes with musculoskeletal teams (ortho Drs) referral routes.

I'm not a physio but refer many patients to physio as a follow on from initial injury or complaint. So many people could do better with supportive footwear ( especially youngsters in fashion shoes) My new work trainers are rubbish, being tight and all I'm loathe to spend money to replace :rotfl: This has just reminded me to put my old orthotics in my trainers .. result :j My husband for instance has a swollen ankle maybe once a year , goes all red and puffy and painful. He had a fractured big toe 20 years ago which may impact his stance. last about 2 weeks and disappears. He's never been for an XR... just wear and tear.

I've been enjoying your journey in investing.... I had a good pension but recent changes probably rob me of a bit.. grrrr…. I'm sticking with S&S isa for now as I to have a bundle of renovation debt to hammer down

savingholmes

Hi MF - I think the problems I'm currently experiencing - relate back to the fall in August. However I also think I have always been clumsy - as in more than usually so - it is one of the things I am checking into at the end of March - dyspraxia / DCD as well as ASD. My weight will also be a major contributing factor. The doctor yesterday said the lump I have below my knee is my brain telling my leg to grow an extra pillow to cushion it from further falls - it was the first I'd heard of that... He claimed it might stay forever:eek: The centre of my knee is also hurting today along with my ankle and leg. All I've done is walk a hundred yards if that to the hairdresser and back - and chop a few veg in the kitchen. The rest of the time I've been resting it. Scary. Trying to avoid further googling.

I really appreciate your comment about not trying to be superwoman - I do fall into that regularly. Even now - rather than thinking - I've been signed off so I rest - I am thinking how can I use the time constructively so I am in a better place when I return. There's a balance to be had I'm sure - but I have never been great at relaxing. I have convinced DH to cook tonight which is something at least. Painkillers have dulled pain but not removed it. Still feels weirdly tight. TBH I am looking forward to DH and DD getting back to work so I can sleep in and chillax.

I'm lucky enough to get full sick pay so no worries there. It's my own high standards and worry about letting others down that are the bigger problem than any attitude towards me... My boss knows a lot of what's gone on for us this last year and is really supportive. She's going to pop in to see me at some point this week.

MovingForwards

You need to try and comfortably distribute your body weight, not just because of being a voluptuous woman but to try and prevent yourself from shifting everything into the opposite leg (creating more problems).

I rarely use my walking stick at home as it's set up so I can use furniture and the walls to get round, safely.

What can you do at home to give you the support and make sure you are safe / balanced?

Whereabouts is the foot pain? Have you tried heat / ice / soaking in warm water etc?

doingitanyway

savingholmes wrote: »

LOL at this - you sound like you're telling me off! I was at a critical point with some work earlier - while it is not great timing to be off work-wise it would have had more visible, high profile impact if it had been earlier. You are also right - my body has forced me to take downtime.

Oh dear not telling you off at all. I just know even though work is important, you are always the priority and I worried you were burning out a bit, that's all. Take care and try to rest while you can.

savingholmes

Thanks MF and DIA.

Had a restful weekend. We decided to get two matching chairs in the end - so nipped back and upped the order. Will then either give away or sell our current chairs on FB for a token amount. They are quite stained with glue, rings etc. Can't wait for the new ones now. We have put a 10% deposit down and should be able to pay the rest in full when they arrive. It's the first time we will have paid cash for something so expensive. I have also bought some new curtains - they should arrive Tuesday - so will see how they change the room. I promise that normal debt-busting activity will resume soon.

Ate in this weekend so that was something. Just been getting the dog to run after a ball in the house - it brings out my rebel side to play in the house - even though if anything got broken it would be for us to pay! Nothing did anyway. DD has done her own washing. I still need to do ours. Waiting for DH to bring it downstairs - and then will do tomorrow now. DH had a nap this afternoon he was so shattered! I am looking forward to some peace tomorrow.

• I still need to return a couple of parcels to the P.O. so I can get refunds.
• I still need to do forms to get tax refunds
• While I'm off I may have a go at doing a PIP form for DD
• I'm thinking of trying to sell a bike - for perhaps £30 too at some point - perhaps on FB - as part of our decluttering efforts.
• DS has taken my old(brand new) archery kit - to use as a base for anew one for him. He's grown so tall he would need longer limbs and arrows then me

Tried to sleep in today but was still wide awake before 9. I emailed the personal trainer for DD yesterday so hopefully I will get a response soon. I also hope that they will process my gym application early in the week so i can start swimming.

ohdearhowdidthathappen

Good news on the gym membership.
Hope you're resting up and your foot starts feeling better soon, I'm glad your boss is being understanding.
That's true; if you know what the diagnosis is and wouldn't/couldn't have an op on it, an MRI would be pointless. They're not the most pleasant experience either!
The gait analysis and orthotics suggestions you've had above are good ones. Would a chiropractor be any good to try too?

savingholmes

Hi OhS....

The gym people say I have to come in and fill a form in - even though I did online - and I qualify. Will wait for DH to be ready and do it together. They also said it can take 2 weeks to have a meeting and get set up.

I really struggle with resting - probably why I am in my current predicament. I can't see any surgeon being willing to operate on me so will leave that for now. I am seeing a physio on Thursday - I've seen her before for my neck and back and she was good. As part of an assessment I am booked in for at the end of March I am due to see an OT - don't know whether she will do gait analysis or not. I do have fairly flat feet - and if I was walking next to you - I would keep walking diagonally across you unless I work really hard not to... When we used to have a wii fit board - it used to tell me that I lean to one side... I think at the moment an MRI would give me a major panic attack too.

I slept really badly last night - not sure why. I wonder if I tried to go to bed too early and it had the opposite effect.

Today I have

1. Returned 3 parcels of clothes - so should get £48 in refunds
2. The pet grooming table (we bought a second £23 cheaper one and returned the one that was delayed arriving) - has now refunded to Am@z0n - so with DH's agreement we've bought a new canvas picture for our house - again we have been eyeing it up for a while and decided to go for it. There is another I've fallen in love with too - so will show DH and if he likes it we may also get that one.
3. I've unpacked and packed the dishwasher - unfortunately a bit of a backlog has built up so will need to do 1 or 2 more loads!!!
4. Put 1 lot of washing in - still need to do another 2
5. Resisted the chippy - I was soooo tempted - will make myself an omelette or something with jacket spud instead

I've brought some colouring pens downstairs so hopefully I can get some therapeutic value from adult colouring - probably the closest I get to resting...

Have a good day all!

EssexHebridean

Might be worth doing some stretching/mobility/flexibility stuff as well SH - most people are naturally "stronger" on one side than the other - and that can manifest itself in the thing you talk about with an effective "lean" to one direction or the other. I sussed mine when I realised that I could bend down with my hands flatter to the floor to the left than I can to the right. Regular stretching of the weaker side has pretty much corrected it but I do have to be careful to keep doing it otherwise it would revert pretty fast.

girlatplay

I'm glad you've been signed off for a little while. Even if you are not resting (like you should be) you're getting that time away from work. Take care x

clearmydebts

What colouring pens do you use? H got me a book and colouring pencils but I would prefer marker style pens.