Tag: arthritis
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December 20, 2007 02:49 PM EST --
If you suffer from arthritis, as I do, this is a great freebie!
http://www.zostrix.com/pages/samples.asp
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September 15, 2006 12:57 PM EDT --
Our pit bull, Rhieon, started limping quite dramatically about a year ago. Our vet determined she has arthritis in one of her front legs. I take glucosamine, and I asked the vet his opinion on . . .
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August 06, 2007 08:16 PM EDT --
Between my fibromyalgia and arthritis, getting up in the morning is usually a very slow and painful process. The walk into the bathroom has been complete torture. After walking around for a . . .
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May 05, 2009 04:28 PM EDT --
Last year, the CDC released a report that 52% of people between 45-64 with Diabetes, as opposed to 36.4% of the general population. The same study found that 30% of these people with arthritis and diabetes . . .
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September 20, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
I took some more blood work on 9/4/08 with the feeling that since the prior blood work was negative that this one would be also. Yesterday(9/19) I talked to someone at the dr's office about . . .
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February 08, 2007 04:28 AM EST --
You know what gripes my butt? All those commercials for various Over-The-Counter medications which claim to take away arthritis pain... Those damn commercials minimize the pain of arthritis and serve to . . .
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October 10, 2007 03:22 PM EDT --
Many of my patients (and even more of my relatives) tell me that their arthritis pain is affected by weather. More remarkably, for many the joint symptoms precede weather changes. Often my patients . . .
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February 05, 2009 04:12 PM EST --
Nearly 10 years ago, I was noticing that I seemed to have arthritis of some sort. My joints always ached. I was taking pain killers. I thought: I am way too young to have arthritis! I will not stand . . .
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April 30, 2009 09:25 PM EDT --
Rosie and I both went to the doctor today. Rosie hurt her knee yesterday ice skating. The doctor could not tell if she pulled some ligaments or broke her kneecap because of the swelling, but she definitely . . .
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October 16, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
When my son, Jake was three years old, he was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. He had what is called a SED rate blood test, and the numbers came back high. For a few years he had . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
"Is it okay for me to exercise?"
It's a question I'm asked several times a week by my patients with arthritis. Here's my usual answer: Keep moving. I generally suggest that my . . .
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December 21, 2008 12:18 AM EST --
I received this link from a friend this evening and she says her friends swear by it. Of course I said the gin or any liquor would help any pain,lol. But, she says something about the . . .
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May 24, 2009 02:04 PM EDT --
Don't do that again.
"What?" you ask.
Don't take a two-hour tour of a cemetary (even a relatively small one) on a day with 84 degree temperatures and 90% . . .
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April 28, 2009 12:45 AM EDT --
Arthritis Self-Management is a bimonthly magazine for people who want to be actively involved in managing their condition. Articles written by health professionals offer practical . . .
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April 30, 2009 01:20 PM EDT --
....I am getting older. My body just isn't holding up. I went to the orthopedics today for xrays to find out why my right knee has been bothering me. I have severe arthritis in that . . .
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May 13, 2009 07:16 PM EDT --
Today I went back to the rheumatologist finally. Thankfully it is not Lupus, but it is Fibromyalgia. The only treatment they can use is physical therapy because the two drug treaments would not work in . . .
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May 30, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
Today I actuall planned to get some work done instead of taking the day off. I was going to go to the Farmers Market, to get a fan for Ken's computer, and the grocery store, and then I was going to work. . . .
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July 28, 2009 07:53 PM EDT --
My doctor told me it's Psoriatic arthritis. I have severe and widespread joint damage, from psoriasis. There is a tendency for joints to stiffen up and sometimes to fuse together. “Generalized” . . .
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August 27, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
I started driving a school bus in 1994, a year after my mother passed away. It had been something I had wanted to do since I was young. My one friend that I grew up with, and who just . . .
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November 17, 2007 11:24 PM EST --
Hello to Everyone!
This did not begin as an article, just a little info on my condition. But what the hey, no such thing as a little info on my condition. It is very limiting. I fight it every . . .
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