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Do you have any health problems?

I have moving pain at the moment and nobody seems to know why. It started in my right foot on the sole like plantar fasciitis, then moved to my right knee. One morning that pain vanished and reappeared on my left side at the knee. It then moved to my left foot. I went to two doctors and the second decided to inject steroids into my left knee to see if it would go away. It did...for one day, then reappeared and moved down into my left foot as well. Naproxen helps at prescription strength but the pain is still pretty bad. Lidocaine patches don't work at all, but the Salonpas patches with methyl salicylate take the edge off some. Has anyone experienced anything like this? Any solutions? I worry about something serious setting in like RA or Lupus, but it is not really typical for those either. This has been going on for weeks in one of our busiest seasons.
 
Have they checked to see if it could be gout ? I have had gout move around like that. It usually starts in the sole of one foot, and then suddenly stops and the next morning , it can be in my other foot. Mine does not seem to land in my big toe like most gout does, although occasionally, I have had it there.
I have tried epsom salts and ice water.
The ice water seems to help the most, because it kept it numbed.
Once the doctor gave me something that helped it, but I have forgotten what it was now. None of the OTC pain meds helped at all, and even DMSO didn’t do much for it, although it was as good as anything else.
 
My hubby had gout once. It was so painful that he couldn't let the bed sheet touch his toe. His doctor prescribed colchicine and allopurinol. He took one all the time but if he felt another bout of gout coming, he took the other. I don't remember which he took regularly. But it worked.
 
Sheryl said:
My hubby had gout once. It was so painful that he couldn't let the bed sheet touch his toe. His doctor prescribed colchicine and allopurinol. He took one all the time but if he felt another bout of gout coming, he took the other. I don't remember which he took regularly. But it worked.
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I think allopurinol is supposed to keep gout at bay, and the colchicine is supposed to relieve it. It could be gout I guess. I didn't realize it could move like that. I thought it was usually in the joints. I think @BethG is an expert on the subject, but she doesn't seem to be on here any more.
 
I miss her. I wish she and Faye1 both would come back. They are both lovely smart people. Funny, too. 😊
 
Tony Page said:
I'm 81 when I look back, I look at the peak periods between 20 and 50. When I look forward it's a day at a time. Someday looking forward will be an hour at a time.
I find when I have a good health day, I try to use it wisely, do something that puts a smile on my face.
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Tony good days are celebrations. Hope you have many of those.
 
Sometimes I think I'm losing my memory. Like posting sometimes I forget to hit reply or repeat a post if not careful when replying. Sometimes I have joint pain in right shoulder. I think being in the woods saves me, but ticks chiggars and now mosquito's are realty bad again this year, plus I saw 2 small green snakes hanging on a tree limb, very unusual, never saw that before. I've been saving trees here for 27 years and only see them on the ground. Usually around the chicken pen.
 
I have a bad injury on my hand, so now I have a long wound on my left forearm, and thanks to the DAMN spoiled hard headed 'therapy' dog Foxy my right hand is really injured where skin was torn off , no doctor yet, just Antibiotic cream first night, then soaking in salt water and covering with Vaseline and bandage. I had to use rubber glove to bathe.
This morning I screamed when I took off bandage, hurt so bad made me instantly sick at my stomach. Couple flaps of skin was stuck to bandage.
I can usually take pain, I have pushed my muscle's back inside my stomach when it busted open' C-section birth' then took a bus with 3 babies to ER blood sloshing in my shoes and up to my neck on t-shirt. Bus driver almost ran over the 3yo, so I screamed my baby, he ask how many babies do you have and you need an ambulance not a bus.
, A couple years ago I slapped my toes back into joint and reset both broke toes, foot turned black so we went to er, Hubby said he tried to stop me but I had already began and he took off when I screamed, as did both cats and dogs barked. Doctor laughed when he saw the x-rays and said I did a good job.
I'm a firm believer in " what doesn't kill you ,makes you stronger.But I'm old now and tired.
 
I noticed that several people here have mentioned diabetes as a health issue. Today, on Amazon Kindle store, Dr. Jason Fung’s book about it is on sale. It is called “The Diabetes Code”. I have not read this one, but i have read some of his other books, and definitely recommend checking it out. It is on sale for only $1.99 for the ebook right now, but will not be on sale for very long.

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Yvonne Smith said:
I noticed that several people here have mentioned diabetes as a health issue.
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That is largely because there are many types of sugar, both natural and fake, in everything now days. Docs don't normally test you for diabetes until you're 50, by which time it's too late to reverse some diabetic complications. My Mom was told she had it at 50 and she died at 52. I was told at 50 too, but I was more active and got it under control, and kept it that way from from 2006 until 2022 when I got Covid, which made me lose control of it.

The Nutrition Facts labels are hard to read because they're so small. Serving sizes are so small people typically eat more than one. It really pays to read them and add totals for however much you eat. People talk about Calories a lot, but rarely about Carbs, which are just as important. Calorie needs vary from one person to the next, so it's difficult to say what your per meal limit should be, but you should try limit your Carb intake to 45 Carbs per meal. I try to stay below 1,200 Calories per day, which isn't too difficult since I only eat twice a day.

Cindy always said that quite often, frozen food isn't all that bad for you as long are you watch the ingredients, and she had a good method of recognizing bad frozen or other prepared meals. "If there is something in it that you can't pronounce, you might not want to eat it." 👎
 
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