Jack Monroe #31 Grunka Lunka dunkety doo, we came for Jack but stayed for you!

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Blurp said:
I've got osteoarthritis, and I was just thinking about the flares yesterday when driving. My last car was an automatic due to dodgy knees and previously at work I required touch pad instead of mouse due to a dodgy elbow. Yet I'm now happily driving a manual transmission and using a mouse 🤞. At the moment I'm not even needing my stick
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Mine's (PsA) being a right bastard to me at the moment. I'm basically immobile due to it affecting my right sacroiliac joint at present, so even with the enforced rest from The Plague that's meant my ankle/Achilles Tendon/Plantar Fascia is OK, I've got pain in my lower back and hip and my hands and feet all feel incredibly tight and restricted.

Mr Dragon spent ages last night battering the crap out of my hands to try and get them moving again (it's a BOGOF offer, I needed help to get emollient on for the Psoriasis side, he threw in the massage) and the middle joints are only slightly less painful than they were yesterday. I was going to have my biologics changed three months ago to something fancier than Humira, but, you know, plague, means I won't see anybody for the foreseeable future and I can't get a steroid shot to keep me ticking over, either. (I'm allergic to pain, NSAIDs, Tramadol, etc, so I've only got paracetamol and non drug things). The tightness in my hands is probably the worst bit, as I can feel the range of movement dropping down despite regular stretching through the day.

It's all terribly inconvenient if you ask me.
 
my_escape_from_the_ads said:
Ultrasound is a useful resource for RA indeed as it can also help with identifying inflammation and fluid that X RAYS won’t show. It’s also accessible and cheap as MRI is an expensive and scarce resource really. What I learnt about rheumatoid conditions is that basically they’re pretty complex !! XRays shouldn’t really show anything as the damage hopefully won’t be done yet when symptoms start. Blood tests and clinical assessment is essential by an expert. Years ago we’d see damage on XR but now with treatments and drugs we don’t see it as much.
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I get an x-ray every so often to see how one joint or other is progressing. My doctor gave me side eye the last time as I burst out laughing at the last sentence of the report. Apparently my right big toe is "almost completely fused", to which my reply was "I should bloody hope so, given that that's the joint with a surgical fusion!".
 
Cbacooking said:
I’m feeling shortchanged then, crappy 15.min consult, then a letter
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I've lost entire days in hospitals, going between various waiting areas for assorted tests, going to other ones and waiting, then others...I can't recommend it as an occupation conducive to maintaining regular employment.

Can't beat a good 20 minutes wait, 15 minute consultation (10 of which is shoving a fuckoff big needle in somewhere), here's your blood forms, see you again in three months - call us if you're about to die of side effects and we'll get back to you a couple of days later.

Gives more time for limping around Borough Market, for a start. And another chance to bash Gennaro Wotsisface across the shins for shoving past me to get the nicest looking Pennybun mushrooms with my stick
 
MooBelle said:
Just to say that I can still see the tweet about @Nonnymouse
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Can you? That’s really odd. It’s definitely gone for me (this is in the tweets & replies section).


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