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[Chickielady]

OK, trying to catch up here...been gone all day and last night had on & off connectivity.
So, CR says a BYCer's FiL is having issues, and Cheryl's friend just died of a HA ?
And CCG is having worse family issues..?
Oh wow, things go bad when they go bad, huh?
I hope everyone heals, and suffering is low, and hugs go out to all, including Broody.

 

[Chickielady]

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Nope- and the pain is not in the feet, but in particular wounds (well, now that I think of it, one burn scar from the time I dropped a hot broiler rack on my foot, which I think you may have heard of) including having sports tape pulled off my right shin and taking a couple of layers of skin with it, stepping into a coil of rusty barbed wire that HAD been a fence while chasing cows in the dark, in shorts, and a scrape down my left shin where I went over the handlebars of my bike on a gravel road and spent a week picking rocks out of the scab...all of them feeling as if I had just that moment injured them; got up and even with a totally sane, nonglycogenic diet my BG was 225; drank a glass of water and it dropped to 140: welcome to brittle diabetes. I get evaluated for peripheral neuropathy twice a year, and check my feet daily- this is neuropathy, all right, or at least PROBABLY neuropathy, but it's to do with shingles.

Shingles? Hmm.. would that new Chicken-Pox vaccine help you? The reason that shingles is not often seen in our younger years, is the immunity we get from CP covers us for shingles. As we age, that immunity starts to wain. It will still protect us from CP again (usually) but the protection against shingles goes down as we age.

/shrug

I'm not a Dr. nor should I play one on the internet

Dave

But you are correct, as we are vaccinated, we 100% protection against that particular disease.
However, if we are never exposed to said disease, the immunal system kicks it aside, so-to-speak, and "forgets" it.

 

[Chickielady]

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I read this before 5am, when I'd been awake for more than an hour and wouldn't be back to sleep for another hour and a half, because my hips hurt and I was awakened by every bit of scar tissue on my lower legs feeling as if it were on fire; don't know if it's fibro, because it's associated, always, with spiking blood glucose. So: possibly incoherant, sorry.

Anyway, bursitis of the hips in my case is mostly felt as a crescent of pain right above the hip socket. It is worsened by walking on concrete, sitting in cars (my husband's ortho says that the driving position in most modern sedans is bad, bad, double bad and wrong for anyone with lower back, hip, or knee problems because it leaves the legs unsupported from the upper leg outward), sitting at all. It makes it impossible to lift my feet much when I walk, which means I catch my toes a lot and fall often. Catching my toes on uneven ground (and I am the lord and lady of uneven ground, see: cows, sandy soil, moles) also makes my hips hurt. It makes me walk slowly, trying to avid more pain; it also makes me use a shopping cart every time I get a chance, so I can balance upright (the obnoxious git who diagnosed me by putting his thumb on the protruding bursa and pushing said large-breasted women are more prone to bursitis in general) without putting as much strain on my lower back. I titrate my shopping over the entire weekend. I lay down with my feet up when I hurt.

And about three nights out of seven I am awake in the middle of the night in too much pain to sleep, which gives my anxiety disorder a chance to rip and makes me long for an off switch.

Doing some yoga postures, like downward dog, and also pelvic tilts, helps a little.

Some of your discription sounds like fibro. I have had it for nearly 20 yrs. the severity of mine comes and goes, if I eat something that
I should not like (corn) the inflamation will skyrocket for a while.

I used to hurt like that, even worse.
Until I stopped eating wheat.
I hurt soooooooooooo bad!!!
headaches, every muscle hurt!!
Edited to add: My knuckles and all joints would swell & ACHE so bad, but tests came back N on RA, so they never referred me to a gastro.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrom is what my 1st doc said, otherwise known as FM..and he laughed as if it was all Bull Pucky.
I feel Soo much better now!!

 

[Kaneke]

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Sorry CGG...

my neighbor has added you all to her prayer circle list

 

[justbugged]

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Given that your son is 6, he may think that growing meal worms is the greatest idea ever. Little boys often think bugs are very good fun.

Kim DIDN'T raise mealworms very long. I think it was too much of a pain. at first I gave my girls mealworms but it cost too much. there are SO MANY other things ya can feed them.

I'll bring ya over some oats from work next week. my girls love warm oatmeal

I know that I have been known to turn over landscape bricks so that the girls have a better selection of tasty worms and grubs. Once the girls figure out what I am doing, they will follow me anywhere.

 

[justbugged]

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I read this before 5am, when I'd been awake for more than an hour and wouldn't be back to sleep for another hour and a half, because my hips hurt and I was awakened by every bit of scar tissue on my lower legs feeling as if it were on fire; don't know if it's fibro, because it's associated, always, with spiking blood glucose. So: possibly incoherant, sorry.

Anyway, bursitis of the hips in my case is mostly felt as a crescent of pain right above the hip socket. It is worsened by walking on concrete, sitting in cars (my husband's ortho says that the driving position in most modern sedans is bad, bad, double bad and wrong for anyone with lower back, hip, or knee problems because it leaves the legs unsupported from the upper leg outward), sitting at all. It makes it impossible to lift my feet much when I walk, which means I catch my toes a lot and fall often. Catching my toes on uneven ground (and I am the lord and lady of uneven ground, see: cows, sandy soil, moles) also makes my hips hurt. It makes me walk slowly, trying to avid more pain; it also makes me use a shopping cart every time I get a chance, so I can balance upright (the obnoxious git who diagnosed me by putting his thumb on the protruding bursa and pushing said large-breasted women are more prone to bursitis in general) without putting as much strain on my lower back. I titrate my shopping over the entire weekend. I lay down with my feet up when I hurt.

And about three nights out of seven I am awake in the middle of the night in too much pain to sleep, which gives my anxiety disorder a chance to rip and makes me long for an off switch.

Doing some yoga postures, like downward dog, and also pelvic tilts, helps a little.

Some of your discription sounds like fibro. I have had it for nearly 20 yrs. the severity of mine comes and goes, if I eat something that
I should not like (corn) the inflamation will skyrocket for a while.

I was first diagnosed in 1986 with Fibromyalgia. At that time there were many doctors that absolutely thought that it was not real, and it was just depression. The only information on Fibro was in Italian medical studies. On the other side I can also remember being 15 and laying in the floor crying about how bad my bones hurt.

I also still get people that are saying that it's all in my head and I should learn to deal with past family issues.

 

[justbugged]

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That works!

Where are you moving to? You just put in all those chicken coops and that wonderful garden!

It would be a 2800sqft, 5 bdrm/3bth a bit farther out into the country with 10 1/2 acres to boot. Right now we are in 1700sqft, 3bdrm/2bth.
I could have a ton more chickens and some cows!!! I would have to make a new garden but the coops are moveable if we choose to. We have been watching this house for over 5 years. We have friends that live next door on 30 acres that have 10 horses and are ex 4H leaders. I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

Here's to hope things work out quickly for you and your family.

 

[justbugged]

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Hook me up to the strawberry faucet.

I've always told my youngest that a brown cow provides chocolate milk, a white cow provides white milk, a "red" cow provides strawberry milk... then we have some cows that are hamburger cows, and steak cows, and roast cows, and some that are rib cows... Of course, he believed me!

But now he's starting to question my theories about them.

 

[Chickielady]

Hi JB:: I too remember that adolescent pain..unable to even get up or walk it was so bad:: no it is not in your head!
OK I am otta here, goodnight & loves to all!!!!!!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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x2!!!