The Diary Of Onebrokelady Aged 60 And A Half

Makingabobor2

Definitely speak to GP about your pins & needles. 
Hope you feel better soon

Onebrokelady

Cherryfudge said:

Sorry to hear you are such a house of sickness. Apart from the cats, that is. They seem to have you where they want you! Really hoping both you and B are feeling better tomorrow, such a worry when age starts to tell on a loved creature.

I hope you can get a GP appointment too, whatever you have seem to have quite a hold.

Yes it’s not going well this week. One of the cats actually has kidney failure so is not in the best of health. He is plodding along though and still doing his thing so is being closely monitored and basically given lots of love, he is the reason I keep having to buy cat milk as although he is eating he lost a lot of weight so this is helping him keep some weight on. I don’t think he will be with me for much longer either but he’s not mine so I have to run all decisions past DD1 before I do anything 

Onebrokelady

Makingabobor2 said:

Definitely speak to GP about your pins & needles. 
Hope you feel better soon

Thanks, I’m definitely going to becasue this isn’t normal but I know they will fob me off 😟

Cloth_of_Gold

Onebrokelady said:

Yesterday was another day spent not doing a lot. I went to sleep in the afternoon and woke up at 17.30 😳 I pulled the footstool over and made my settee into a chaise then snuggled under a blanket. I woke up under a pile of cats 😀  I like to think they were giving me a cuddle due to being ill but realistically know they were using me as a hot water bottle 😀.

Today has been another quiet day becasue I still didn’t feel 100% this morning. I started to feel slightly better at tea time but went slightly downhill after I ate my tea. I keep feeling a bit sick when I eat so not wanting to eat anything apart from rich tea biscuits. I do feel better than I did at the weekend so I’m hoping  tomorrow will be a better day. 

I don’t know if I posted about this but I have had pins and needles in my left shoulder, arm and hand for days now so I think I’m going to have to get a gp appointment. They won’t do anything but I will give it a go. I’ve also got them in left foot and bizarrely on the back of my head 😳 I had two episode this weeks of not being able to grip properly with my left hand. My arm was really heavy like I’d fallen asleep on it. 

I postponed the heating guys in case I was still ill on Tuesday and they are now coming in April which will be better for me. I’m hoping the weather will be nice when they are here so I can get out of the way in the garden. I went up to the washing line today and I can’t wait to get out and tidy up the garden. It looks like Steptoes yard out there at the moment. The weather has been so bad andI’ve not been feeling great so it’s a mess. I just hope acquire some energy from some where soon. I think once I get going I will be ok, I just need to get going.

I have also phoned the vet about B today because she isn’t doing too well. Her back legs keep collapsing so she can’t hold herself up, she is fine if she is walking but not good if standing still. Today she has groaned a few times when getting up from sitting so I think she is in pain. I’ve given her her usual dose of  paracetamol but I’m not sure it’s lasting long enough. I’m not sure there will be anything they can do at this point. I could t get her in to my local vets until Thursday so booked it for then but I’m going to phone in the morning to see if they have any cancellations. They had appointments at the other surgery but it’s two buses away and I can’t guarantee I will get there if the bus doesn’t turn up 

I'm sorry you're feeling so bad. It's a strange collection of symptoms, isn't it? 3 or 4 months ago my left shoulder started aching and then sometimes different parts of my left arm, and even sometimes my hand. It wasn't continuous pain - it came and went. I have to give someone eye drops which requires me to squeeze the little bottle quite hard and I noticed that the grip in my left hand was weaker than usual and I struggled to squeeze the bottle hard enough with it, although it was fine with my other hand.

 It carried on for 3 or 4 few weeks and I was thinking about going to see the GP when it suddenly cleared up. The grip came back but still isn't quite as strong as it was. These things are weird aren't they? Hopefully you will get an appointment soon but I also hope it just clears up of its own accord - and everything else.

jwil

Hope you get the GP appointment and a sooner appointment for B.

Muddy_Walker

Best of luck for you and B xx

Onebrokelady

Cloth_of_Gold said:

Onebrokelady said:

Yesterday was another day spent not doing a lot. I went to sleep in the afternoon and woke up at 17.30 😳 I pulled the footstool over and made my settee into a chaise then snuggled under a blanket. I woke up under a pile of cats 😀  I like to think they were giving me a cuddle due to being ill but realistically know they were using me as a hot water bottle 😀.

Today has been another quiet day becasue I still didn’t feel 100% this morning. I started to feel slightly better at tea time but went slightly downhill after I ate my tea. I keep feeling a bit sick when I eat so not wanting to eat anything apart from rich tea biscuits. I do feel better than I did at the weekend so I’m hoping  tomorrow will be a better day. 

I don’t know if I posted about this but I have had pins and needles in my left shoulder, arm and hand for days now so I think I’m going to have to get a gp appointment. They won’t do anything but I will give it a go. I’ve also got them in left foot and bizarrely on the back of my head 😳 I had two episode this weeks of not being able to grip properly with my left hand. My arm was really heavy like I’d fallen asleep on it. 

I postponed the heating guys in case I was still ill on Tuesday and they are now coming in April which will be better for me. I’m hoping the weather will be nice when they are here so I can get out of the way in the garden. I went up to the washing line today and I can’t wait to get out and tidy up the garden. It looks like Steptoes yard out there at the moment. The weather has been so bad andI’ve not been feeling great so it’s a mess. I just hope acquire some energy from some where soon. I think once I get going I will be ok, I just need to get going.

I have also phoned the vet about B today because she isn’t doing too well. Her back legs keep collapsing so she can’t hold herself up, she is fine if she is walking but not good if standing still. Today she has groaned a few times when getting up from sitting so I think she is in pain. I’ve given her her usual dose of  paracetamol but I’m not sure it’s lasting long enough. I’m not sure there will be anything they can do at this point. I could t get her in to my local vets until Thursday so booked it for then but I’m going to phone in the morning to see if they have any cancellations. They had appointments at the other surgery but it’s two buses away and I can’t guarantee I will get there if the bus doesn’t turn up 

I'm sorry you're feeling so bad. It's a strange collection of symptoms, isn't it? 3 or 4 months ago my left shoulder started aching and then sometimes different parts of my left arm, and even sometimes my hand. It wasn't continuous pain - it came and went. I have to give someone eye drops which requires me to squeeze the little bottle quite hard and I noticed that the grip in my left hand was weaker than usual and I struggled to squeeze the bottle hard enough with it, although it was fine with my other hand.

 It carried on for 3 or 4 few weeks and I was thinking about going to see the GP when it suddenly cleared up. The grip came back but still isn't quite as strong as it was. These things are weird aren't they? Hopefully you will get an appointment soon but I also hope it just clears up of its own accord - and everything else.

That’s what I’m hoping. I had a bad shoulder a few weeks ago for I think a couple of weeks. I’m now wondering if this is a trapped nerve due to whatever was wrong with my shoulder. It doesn’t explain the pins and needles on my head though but having lived with Fibromyalgia for the last 23ish years I know how the body can throw up weird symptoms for no reason at all which is why I don’t bother phoning my gp 

Onebrokelady

Thanks everyone  the vet said they will contact me if there were any appointments for B. There weren’t any this morning so I walked to town and bought myself some fruit to try and gets some extra vitamins. I bought some blueberries, raspberries and pears. I really wanted some cherries but Sainsburys didn’t have any and they were £5 a punnet in M&S there weren’t many in the pack so I left them there. The blueberries I got are lovely 😊

Im feeling a bit better cold wise apart from the headache but I’m typing one handed because my left arm is tingling too much to use 😟

The weather was lovely this morning so that’s why I decided to walk. it’s gone cloudy now though, so I’m glad I got home when I did. 

I haven’t got much to do today but I still haven’t checked my bank so need to do that today. I can’t decide what to have for my tea but might do a stir fry because I have the bits to make that and it’s quick which I like 😀

Sun_Addict

I hope you can get the pins and needles sorted out. I’m sure I read on another diary on here they were having the same thing and the GP put them on prescription strength folic acid. Sorry can’t remember more or who it was. 

Fingers crossed B picks up a bit or you can get an appointment. 

I love a stir fry, great way to get rid of odds and ends and super quick and easy. 

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

I hope you can get the pins and needles sorted out. I’m sure I read on another diary on here they were having the same thing and the GP put them on prescription strength folic acid. Sorry can’t remember more or who it was. 

Fingers crossed B picks up a bit or you can get an appointment. 

I love a stir fry, great way to get rid of odds and ends and super quick and easy. 

It’s got worse this evening 😟you can get pins and needles if you have a B12 deficiency but I’m not sure if it would be localised or not. I’m on prescription iron tablets because I’m anaemic