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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 17, 2004 13:29:03 GMT
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Post by azazel on Jun 17, 2004 13:36:26 GMT
Some great fundraiser ideas there PK. I'll pass some of those on.
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j20a
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Post by j20a on Jul 14, 2004 2:34:37 GMT
Can i rant about my knee? It sucks! it's throbbing right now and i have to try and walk and put pressure on it and i don't want to. I'm supposed to be taking those Ibroprofen things for the pain but i haven't.. i'd prefer to stay away from pills but grrrrrrrr
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Post by marilyn on Jul 14, 2004 3:54:54 GMT
M :-/s everyone...with her one good arm...lmao! J, that knee sounds so painful, is that why you were up in the middle of the night? I hope it's better real soon, sugar....and all the rest of us .....
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Post by azazel on Jul 30, 2004 13:07:48 GMT
Taken from benefitsandwork.co.uk
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Post by Dxxoo on Jul 30, 2004 13:20:28 GMT
That's interesting Az, are you gonna do it?
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Post by azazel on Oct 20, 2004 20:34:24 GMT
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Post by azazel on Oct 20, 2004 20:38:28 GMT
Completley disgusted with myself for not putting this on Hypermobility.orgBeighton scoreThis does not diagnose Hypermobility it is used only to indicate the condition or rule it out. Other tests need to be used in conjuction with it. forum
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Post by Pixie on Oct 20, 2004 21:05:06 GMT
Thanks for the links, Az... have added them to my favourites, and now I know a bit more about it, feel a bit more confident about going to the doctor's and getting it checked out. I'm hoping a different doctor with a different perspective will be more helpful than the "oh, everyone gets aches and pains" kind of reaction I've had in the past. hypoglycaemia link is worrying... my dad's diabetic, so is my grandmother! but hyperglycaemic, rather than hypo
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Post by azazel on Oct 20, 2004 21:11:47 GMT
Had that until I was 27 and then some. Drs think they have a right to talk to you like an idiot. You should of heard some of the insults I got from them. Put it this way I came very very close to punching two docs. Thankfully I have a diagnosis now, but even then I was given the worse advice I could receive and that escalated my problem until it became a full time disability
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Post by Pixie on Oct 20, 2004 21:17:12 GMT
Bleeding docs! They always have to have the last word, don't they? Well, getting on for 26, so I'm almost there. Maybe 27 is the blessed age when someone finally finds out what's wrong with me instead of intimating that I'm making it up, a hypochondriac, or something of that nature. I'm pretty damn fed up of being like an idiot. anyway... at least now I know where some of the pitfalls are, and what to look out for.
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Post by azazel on Oct 20, 2004 21:29:02 GMT
I was told my pain was caused because I was unfeeling. Not a good thing to say to me as I had been to a close friends funeral the day before and was only just holding it together. I proved how much emotion I could show when my face looked like I ended up having to do a deal with my doctor (Practice Im with now) I promised that if he sent me to see one last specialist of my choice when the tests came back negative I would go and see a psychatrist. Of course it was the only way to get another referral so I had to agree. the git then said I had to have more bloods taken before he did and they did come back negative as they always did so he then tried to send me to see the shrink, but I refused saying i wanted to see a rheumatologist first (Dam good guess) he gave in and I got my diagnosis. The annoying thing is I gave this diagnosis to two specialists one a rheumatologist years ago, but they both said impossible because I couldnt do the full Beighton score. The rheumy should of known better. The Beighton Score is not a tool to diagnose it is only to help. It was used for mass diagnosis/elmination tests in South Africa by Mr Beighton.
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Post by Pixie on Oct 21, 2004 8:10:32 GMT
I honestly believe that the majority of doctors are fundamentally stupid and/or arrogant. But maybe that's just because we've had problems in our family with docs not finding out what's wrong with us! Or finding a treatment to help, anyway.
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Post by nightnurse on Nov 11, 2004 22:33:53 GMT
DJ...re your problems with period pain (or Dysmenorrhea to give it it's medical name!) , when my periods are painful, which thankfully is not often these days, I take Ponstan (Mefenamic Acid) , which is the only thing that works for me. Not sure if you can buy it over the counter there, but here it's prescription only, it may help until your docs can find out what's causing the pain.
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Post by Pixie on Nov 12, 2004 7:56:04 GMT
My mum had to take that during the menopause. They put her on the pill as well, without telling her what it was - she was well pissed off, and refused to take it!
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Post by Ditto on Nov 12, 2004 9:23:37 GMT
I didn't know you were supposed to get painful periods during the change?
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Post by Pixie on Nov 12, 2004 9:31:45 GMT
Um... there were complications.
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Post by Ditto on Nov 13, 2004 0:33:48 GMT
Oooh nasty!
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Post by Pixie on Nov 13, 2004 21:10:33 GMT
Umm... we do. Usually to men, about once a month, for 4 days or so!
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Post by Teebee on Nov 13, 2004 21:30:35 GMT
Oooh nasty! My friend Barbara has been on HRT for a decade, she's like a spring chicken, but the doc has now said you can only stay on them so long and she's not as perky as she was. She was used to those patches tisk. Sorry to butt into your convo ladies...........but I wish HRT made me like a spring chicken.....I've been on it for over 14 years, (due to THE operation when I was a lot, lot younger....too young) and I've been trying to get off it since, I'm afraid I don't see any difference maybe because of why I had to be put on it.....and the doc say's I'll be on it till I'm well into my...wait for it...60's!!!!!
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