
Arthritis Among Us?
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 07:39 PM
I'll have to say, that Meloxicam has changed my life. Before I started it, I had bad pain about 1/2 the time. It's just $4 for a month's supply of 30 pills, but that lasts me 2 months, so cheap as can be. I only take it every other day because it can affect your liver, so I try to get by with less of it. I have to get my blood checked every 6 months for my liver due to cholesterol meds that can affect it too. So far I've been on it for over a year & a half & no bad effects yet.
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 07:47 PM
I am on Lipitor for high cholesterol too.....They say a side effect of it is joint pain.........can't win.....lol
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 07:48 PM
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 08:05 PM
#5
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 08:10 PM
You know we're getting older when we post about our aches, pains, & medications!:rofl2:
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 08:19 PM
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 08:27 PM
I consider myself very lucky in that I am not on any medication for anything but nobody knows what tomorrow brings.
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 09:10 PM
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 09:18 PM
I'm pretty much in the same boat......58 years old, good days bad days......joints hurt....I take an anti-inflammatory when I need it....This past week was pretty bad.
I am on Lipitor for high cholesterol too.....They say a side effect of it is joint pain.........can't win.....lol
Talk to your doctor. That family of medicine affects some people in a bad way. My wife has been on Lipitor for years with no side effects. My brother was on Crestor and his joints hurt so bad, he got off it and decided to go the fish oil and diet route. Talk to the doc and see if there is something else he can put you on.
I'm 52 and have always used my hands, so the fingers get locked up every so often. I'll continue to deal with it because I'm not going to stop doing the stuff I love.
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 09:21 PM
You know we're getting older when we post about our aches, pains, & medications!:rofl2:
The other thing that I notice lots now is that when I look into the mirror ,I have to turn my head just to make sure that there's no one standing behind me. I think to myself who is that stranger in the mirror ,then reality sinks in and I realize yep its me.LOL Larry
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 09:45 PM
Just enjoy each day that we are given and hope that tomorrow will be even better.
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 10:25 PM
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Posted January 15, 2011 - 11:53 PM
When this first started happening to me, I wasn't quite forty yet. I was wondering how I was going to make a living. The part of my work I hate is the paperwork and the estimates, so I didn't want to be one of those guys who just hires crews and lets them do the work. I also figured I'd need at least three crews working all the time to earn what I was used to. I switched from general renovations (basically everything, but heavy on framing, insulating, painting and roof-work) to landscape carpentry and light landscaping.
I've found is that I can do pretty much everything with the right tools.
Sawhorses keep me from having to kneel much. The hydraulic auger I use is pretty easy to drill with. I pull it and the materials, rock etc. around with a GT. Air nailers save the shoulder and arm. So does driving screws with a little impact instead of a drill.
It's not perfect, and I'm a lot slower than I used to be and considering a student for the summer instead of just using casual labour for some jobs, but it works okay overall.
The best medicine I've found for it is having a couple of beer and using ice to control the swelling and heating pads to loosen things up.
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Posted January 16, 2011 - 06:12 AM
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Posted January 17, 2011 - 04:02 PM