Wrist, Arm & Hip Pain Escalated Today.

[willows]

I'm not feeling to bright here, in fact rather rough is more like it .

The weather in the UK has become rather cool very quickly and I'm feeling the cold more now, waking up each morning is something I dread , IF I actually do wake up .............???? the reason I say this is the last few nights I haven't slept more than an hour or so all night .

But just sitting up the bed is so painful and now takes me between 5-6 minutes each day and then getting up the pain in my hips , dont ask.

The worst thing is that tonight I was 'pootling about the kitchen ' as one does to help , and I thought I'll just get the tray out of the oven ....................bad move number one

I used two tee-towels to hold the hot tray , but my right wrist 'snapped first' and the tray slid sideways so I stupidly tried to hold it more and the left wrist snapped . OMG ! ! and I burnt the pad on my left palm.

I'm now in pain from my wrist to both elbows , you know that hard aching ,nagging pain that lets you know its there at the slightest move of a little finger or a twitch of a muscle .

I do wear normally hand & wrist supports , but I've been so good over the summer months and had so little pain I've left them off ............. bad move number two .

This morning I slipped three times in the shower . 1: closed my eyes to rinse the shampoo off and 'away went my feet in all directions' . 2: caught my head on the wall mounted support. 3: whacked my leg on the seat ( I'm supposed to be sitting on ) ..........my third bad move of the day .

If your wondering how I'm typing this I'm not ..........say hello Mike ............( wave , wave from me Mike here guys)

Mother trusty bag carrier , kitchen helper, door holder and puller -up-the- bed when needed.......... son here doing the typing for a rather crazy mother who's done to much again. !!!

So guys has the weather now its cooler ( if it is where you are ) brought forth new and exciting ( NOT) things to your daily lives ?????

Willows..wishing I'd stayed in bed all day today now

[Tanzanite]

It's still mild where I am, still have my air con on. I feel hot all the time.

((((hugs))))

[willows]

Having got my son to post last night for me , within half an hour I was so ill.

I've just been able to get up for 1/2 hour now and am going back to bed after this.

I had such joint pain last night and an incredible thirst, trying to sip 3-4 cups of juice all night.

At 2 am in the morning I was still awake feeling rough , then went into a 2 hour on/ off angina attack at level 5 , which I coped with until my throat started to close/ restrict my intake and I couldnt drink much.

This may sound very scary to some of you , but I've been dealing with these problems for years remember and know exactly what to ; take, do and not to do.

We take half hourly blood pressure and heart readings and if they rose sky high OR as with me dropped onto oblivion or I got to level 7-8 angina and felt I'd lost control then I would have just 999 ( 911) and that would have been it ..............straight in.

I have been in bed on morphine all day now, just had 1/2 a cup of water and some ice -cream...........there's a tip for you , if your throat closes up eat ice -cream ( as told to me by my consultant ) because it cools and freezes the larynx so stops you wanting to reach/choke.

I'm back to bed now as my sweating and dizziness is bad again and I have such a back ache down both side of my ribs , if that make sense.

Bye for a few days .........Willows.

[jenwclark]

Hi, willows, I'm thinking about you and wishing you a speedy upswing.

spike

[masumeh]

Speachless. Hang in there! My wrists are also aching, from finger tips to shoulders...carpal tunnel...but, it's BURNING hot here in Saudi Arabia....("cool" means able to turn off AC). Again, hang in there!

[willows]

Thank you for your kind words guys..............well I'm back ,but not for long as I'm about to go and lay down upstairs again .

Silly , silly , stupid , 'should have known better ' person here got up yesterday and thought .

' well this is OK now ' ........................funny ??? whats that noise I can hear , sort of high pitched siren sound ???

Funny ( not) why am I now laying on the floor inspecting the carpet passed put again flat ,bang, wallop ! ! !

Back to bed again.............blur

Sat in bed and thought ' OMG now what ? ' chronic diarrhea , you try running ( ha, ha dont make me laugh again) to the loo ....1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, then I lost count and just sat on the loo floor for an hour .

Little voices kept saying from the other side of the door ' dear, you still alive ' ???

Got up this morning feeling , well how can I put it ' a little light headed , sore and as stiff as an old yard broom thats been metal plated' ! had a poodle around the downstairs then...........

'OMG '.....ahhhhhhhhh! I got the most awful pain in my left kidney , like it was being hauled out by a great pair of rusty pliers .............ouch ! doubled over in pain staggered back to the chair hubby ( who's now had his stitches out ) comes flying over to me squawking and screeching as he's gone to fast and his feet now hurt , in an effort to catch me if I was going to fall again............so we both ended up in the settee feeling ....blur !

Never mind could have been worse ..........I could have collapsed on hubby's sore feet and ended up with his big toe stuck up my nose Oh ! dont make me laugh , it hurts........... Willows.

[willows]

Just about to go back to my normal laying down position again .

I've been up for lunch and am still getting intermittent left side pains that 'take your breath away ' ................yet another song for me to sing to ( from Top Gun I think )

I'm begining to wonder if it is a kidney stone of some sort , BUT having said that the pain is to short and to long ????

No that doesn't make sense your saying to your self

To short in the length to time from start to end , and to long as its now going into my left boob! ' ouch , ouch ,ouch '

And another thing I've noticed .......... .........that this bleeding into the skin on my feet /ankles is now going up my legs .

I've been ill for the past 3-5 days now and its suddenly increased its area , so thats something I've learnt new over the week, ill and more bleeding now .

At least I can swallow again , so MUCH better , I hate that 'someones got there hands around my throat feeling ' makes me not want to eat .

Well I'm off again to the land of nod ( well actually X-men 3 ) and a bit of stiff fingered typing on the old book again ...........thats between sleep and TV..........in an assortment of order !

Willows .........and her Troll feet now Troll legs as well , here I hope I'm going to turn into a red spotted toad ....... .......where's the handsome prince ? send him my way quick !!!! ( sorry being silly again )

[willows]

Right 'Troll feet' here has decided that its NOT a bug just a huge pots flare up as the symptoms are to varied and to long to be anything else

My poor old trotter ( feet/legs) are giving me the fiery furnace treatment at this time ( H**l) last night I was in chronic pain even having taken my pethidine at 10 pm as usual , and it didn't go off ( rolling about the bed ) until ......................5 am this morning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So as I'm a writer by profession and have what is termed a very 'vivid imagination ' ( ha, ha, ha, ) I decided laying there last night that I would not cry .............there said it , and I didn't !

What I did I should have done years ago ???????????????????????????? what your thinking ??????????????

Well as I keep calling myself 'Troll feet ' or as I say I'm turning into a red spotted toad I lay there in bed and thought ................mmmmmmmm OK Troll feet here is now being attacked by something , not a some what , and my pots is now my 'wicked witch ' who is intent on inflicting pain on me , but how ???

And instead of laying there in pain , think nothing but pain .............everything I got a huge 'electric current shock ' running over my feet or legs I'd imagine what my 'wicked witch' was doing to me ..............so pots for me has now taken on an imaginary body and I actually made it thorough the night without crying ( and I can tell you guys when its really bad I do cry , cant help it , when the pain killer fails to work I have to let out the pain some how )

So 'wicked witch' last night was pulling the hairs out of my legs 'one at a time' with rusty tweezers

Trying to pa-boil my legs in moisture cream to smooth them for me and was trying to rotate my hips in the wrong direction 'to help keep me supple' ............ so that if I wish to take up ballet dancing I'd be ready ....yea, right .............how kind of her !!!!

The sharp tearing pain in my hips became her using a cheese grater on me in an effort to smooth the cellulite ( dont we all have it ? ) and the general constant ache, ache , ache pain from head to foot is her being a bit to overenthusiastic trying to get me to run the 1 minute mile in wellingtons holding a camel on my back, who's got a monkey on his head wearing a red top hat with a green parrot singing on it ..........................let the imagination go made here all

At one point I laughed out loud to which my husband , who's used to me crying with the pain , asked if I was OK as he knew I was bad because I couldnt lay still and kept sighing and moaning rather ( with the occasional swear word chucked in ) when I told him what I was up to he said ' try having a soft white bunny instead dear will you , I dont want any fly witches dive bombing me from the ceiling tonight '

So I visualized her as a granny ( cough , cough , hang on I'm a granny ) with long grey hair and long bend under nose with a big green drip on the end ........yuck.

A big fat body sort of really Roley- poly type, short arms and extra long bendy legs with huge 10 toed feet on the end ................She's wearing a bright pink leotard with green bows stuck all over it and her legs haven't been shaved for about a year, in fact she wears curlers in them so the hair hangs in ringlets now !!!! here ...she sounds like an ex mother-in-law of mine now I come to think of it

I spend the night in such pain , yet was able to get though it AND ...............this is the best bit ................so dont think I'm completely off my rocker guys.

I DID NOT VOMIT this morning or have that awful headache ( blood pressure ) afterwards............

So now I know I'm having a really bad episode of pots again and I think its going to be with me for sometime by the way my body is reacting to it , my red spotted toad is still climbing my legs and they are sort of going into mass now .............rather like a pink suntan and the pain OMG am I going to give 'wicked witch some stick tonight id she comes to try her home-made beauty products and ideas on me ................got a few of my own to try on her to !!!!!

Blimey , can you imagine me laying there at level 10 pain ............ambulance men coming for me , into the bedroom and I'm rolling about on the bed shouting and screaming 'its her 'wicked witch of the west ' telling them she's got rusty tweezers to my leg hairs, beating me on the hips with an aardvark in an effort to loosen the fat ?????? straight jacket here I come

Haven't we always been told to 'visualize ' our selves as somewhere else when the pain hits , well I say give it a name, a face and a let it do its worst to me now as I'm ready and waiting , and do you know what ???? I'm not so afraid of the bad days /nights now as I have something to do than lay there feeling sorry for myself , asking why me !

Willows................fighting the 'wicked witch of the west' here ............must find her a good name so I dont sound quite so 'off my trolley' .........by the way thats an English line for as ' mad as a hatter' or ' round the bend or ' lost the plot' or flipped your lid' or there ha-pence short of a bob ' ...........cor thats an old one !

Any suggestions ?????? got to be something extra special I feel .

[masumeh]

Willow,

Very sorry to hear that you are in so much pain. I have to admit that I couldn't understand all of your posts...but I wanted to say: I'm really enjoying your British English I'm American myself, but I have a cousin in Britain....he always cracks me up....and my sister-in-law's mother is British....reading your posts, I can almost hear her. In fact, I even imagine that you must look something like her while I'm reading. Just me probably. Hang in there!

Masumeh

"Inna ma'al-'usri yusraa" (Qur'an)

Translation: "Surely with hardship comes ease!"

[jenwclark]

I have a POTS monster, too! Mine has 5 heads and purple horns and he lives in my closet. I don't think he has a name, though. He looked at me blankly when I asked. He's not very bright. In fact, he sometimes looks surprised when I get upset with him. I don't think he MEANS to mess up my life; it's just a fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly kinda thing. Most of my fantasies involve beating the **** out of him, but they do crack me up when I'm feeling bad!

Now for a name for your new friend ...

You could go with something mythical: Circe

or something respectful: Madam Eisenstien

something insulting: Old Bag

something sinister: Cruella

something deceptive: Lovey

something elegant: Evangeline Ezmerelda Egglentine III

spike