I've had 2 car wrecks and caught in the PTO of a tractor. Thought I was in good shape until arthiritis set in. I used to hear elders talk about arthirits when I was a kid and didn't understand. But, I sure as heck do now!! Have a good day!!
2007-10-01 01:49:05 · 14 answers · asked by ndnquah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
TLC, was that years, tears or beers!!LOL!!
2007-10-01 03:25:22 · update #1
I don't have arthritis (yet) but you may get some relief with ginger, as it is a natural anti-inflammatory. It is also good for nausea including travel sickness. Apart from root ginger I think you can get it in tablet form, and does not irritate the stomach lining like non-steroidal anti-inflammatorys do.
2007-10-01 06:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was a child (age 8) I fell off a roof terrace (I don't know how) and my back hit a concrete path. I was given a mobile X-ray. The doctors said they didn't know if I'd walk again. I was kept in bed for 6 weeks. Hey presto! I was fixed.
But in my 30's my back went in spasms and sometimes I couldn't walk. The pain was so intense within a second of feeling that my eyes water... I can only describe the pain as feeling my back was breaking. That pain went on unchecked for years and I lived on Nurofen.
Then a doctor offered me another X-ray. That showed I have 3 damaged disks. I was diagnosed with osteo-arothosis which another doctor called arthritus.
He prescribed diclofenic sodium tablets. Due to side-effects (possible liver damage) I only take those when the pain returns. These pills actually help the problem rather than only deadening the pain.
I heard an actor on TV refer to them as "little miracle pills." That is what they are. Without them, due to the agonising pain, my life would not be worth living.
I am sorry you suffer too. The only other pain relief I have found is heat.
2007-10-01 02:19:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I fell when I was in my early 30's and my left knee went through the wall. I was in a cast for 6 weeks. After years of doing squats, leg presses etc it sure didn't help. The one that did the real damage I guess, however, was when an ambulance hit me on their way to an accident 7 years ago. I am short and I had the seat ( I was driving) up real far and my knees hit the dash. It was my daughter's car and there was no airbag. Initially they were just bruised real bad we thought and the real pain was my broken collar bone, ribs and arm but slowly the osteoarthritis set in. Now both of my knees have no cartilage left and my bones rub against bone. That's why I'm going to get a total knee replacement on my left knee the day after tomorrow (Wed). Then in a few mo's, just like Roxy will ,
I will get my right knee replaced. ( Hi Rox) Thank goodness I'm not effected in any other joint at this point.
2007-10-01 03:41:49 · answer #3 · answered by Eve 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You'll get a star after I answer this. What you need to do every night before bed is get some herbal Cayenne powder as hot as you can find. Mix in into a mash, not quite a thick paste and apply it to the affected areas every night and leave on all night. Over the course of 4 to 6 months your arthritis will lessen and with continued use, disappear. Have a great day also.
2007-10-01 07:43:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had a lot of accidents when I was a kid. The most serious was when I was 30, I woke up at 4:30 in the AM to go to the bathroom and get a glass of water in my house. There was an unknown intruder in my house. Without having my glasses on, I didn't really see him until I walked by him the second time since he was squatting. He jumped up, stabbed me,. beat me seriously, grabbed me by my hair and tried throwing me into the car, I tripped because I was going backwards out of the house and down the steps and he was trying to throw me into the trunk of the car. When I tripped near the car door by the steps the jerk from that, he lost his grip on my hair and I rolled under the car and between the front tires since the front of the car was up against a building. I knew he couldn't go forward I had fractured my spine in two places and entrapped the spinal cord as well as the nerves exiting the spine, I had a collapsed lung from being stabbed. I have had so many spinal repairs including removing a tumor from the main blood vessel that supports the spinal cord. I have the bone removed for 8 of the bones, So yes I have arthritis in my back as well as in my hands and hip (well that is sciatic since I need more surgery) I haven't taken medication in years and always avoided narcotic analgesics
2007-10-01 03:29:31 · answer #5 · answered by slk29406 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have been fortunate in that I haven't been in a car wreck but my chronic pain is from a fall off a two inch step! I was getting my hair done back in '74 and I didn't have my glasses on, so when I was walking from the shampoo area to the cutting area I walked right off this step and fell flat on my face. I've had low back pain ever since . I tried a chiropractor but had to quit because the head snapping caused me to have a pre-detached retina in the one eye that has sight. I used to think old people complained because that was all they had to do. I now know better as well.. You have a good day too.
2007-10-01 06:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by Donna 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was 5 I was scalded and had 3rd degee burns, again at age 5 I was sitting on the floor and I opened the door to a large wooded object like a China Cabinet and I wanted to see my mom's pretty cups and when I opened the bottom door, the whole cabinet fell over on me and I busted every thing in that cabinet and it hit me back pretty hard and a miracle happened for me and my mom that day. She was confined to a wheelchair due to Polio, and I remember seeing my mom picking up that heavy wooden cabinet and she had gotten out of her wheelchair and ran over to me. She never walked again since that day though and then when I was 9 I fell out of a tree right onto my back and when I was 16 I was in a bad car wreck and fractured to of my discs. Then when I was 20, 21 and 22 had been in 3 more car wrecks from people not stopping and slamming us from behind and one of these times hit us so hard it slammed our car into our apt. building, more disk damage and let's just say I am still accident prone and I have arthirits in my wrists and the small of my back.
I am on medications just to take the edge of the pain off. One good thing, I am an excellent weather predictor! I have learned to just go with the flow of things and still have stupid accidents like falling down the stairs or just being quietly standing somewhere and I go to take a step and because of my back my legs will give out without warning. Again, I still just go with the flow of it and I am stubborn and I am not going to let this from living my life.
2007-10-01 04:03:59 · answer #7 · answered by sherry 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
First car accident I was in was when I was 16. Rain soaked road, dark night, driver lost control. My back hasn't been the same since.
Then about 30 years ago I was in another accident when some part under the car of my ex husband's Mustang broke loose, sending us all over an 8 lane busy highway. I got bounced around pretty much then.
So, yes, arthritis in my neck, lower back, knee and hip. Some days I feel older than others.
2007-10-01 02:06:55 · answer #8 · answered by Lady G 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Being thrown from a race horse & landing on the small of my back on the inside rail of track (surgery-age 21), thrown from a jet ski at 60 mph (broken neck-surgery-age 59).
Not mention I had polio at age five that added to all this crap & now have bridging going on in my central spine. Lovely! Just lovely.
Then there is the little squeaks in fingers that predict weather change.
Arthritis is soooo much fun. NOT!
2007-10-01 02:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by dragon 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My birth. My mother had an accident when she was 7 mths pregnant with me and my twin brother. I was born premature and my brother was still born. Today, at 36..I know the effects of arthritis. I don't know if it was caused by an accident, but I do know that I have it. What a pain.
2007-10-01 01:57:48 · answer #10 · answered by imahlah 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋