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argonian
Location: Toronto, ON Gender: Female Total Likes: 6 likes
"Now with added cats!"
| | | Re: Tell us about your ailments < Reply # 1 on 11/20/2008 4:48 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Lets see. I used to be active then I turned thirty and poof! My feet started cramping up when I walked, stood, etc. This cramping would cause charlie horses. It got to the point where for a year I couldn't really make it a block (thank god for bikes). Although my feet are better now, I still have to rub voltaren on my toes because they ache all the time. You see, the problem is that my tendons are too short, so they pull my toes in. My toes are always curled up. Too much pressure on my arches and viola a charlie horse and sore hips. I can barely move. I learnt that I always have to wear shoes with good support and can't be in places where I can't wear shoes, especially if there is hardwood floors. Before all this I used to walk for hours everyday. Now I am a lethargic lump. My feet are always tender and whiney. Orthotics help but just a bit. I am still always aware of my feet. Right now I have them up and they are still throbbing and tingling for no good reason. Also, I threw my back out this year. I was just bending over to unlock my bike and poof, I couldn't move. Furthermore, I don't enjoy pooing and I am coming to the realization that it is something that may not be eradicated in my lifetime.
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| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
Baaaaah.
| | | Re: Tell us about your ailments < Reply # 7 on 11/23/2008 5:45 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Both ankles broken at least 3 or 4 times, the right one needs total reconstructive surgery due to torn ligaments and the bones in the joint being broken so many times. Been putting that off because there's no guarantee that it won't fuse and leave me unable to walk. Worse comes to worse, I may have to shortly because it's continues to get worse, causing me to limp. Left and right patellas (kneecaps) cracked and/or broken once a piece, one is still sort of healing after being broken into 3 pieces earlier this year by a fall. Carpal tunnel in both wrists, not constant pain, but cramping in the hands after extensive use of them. Sciatica in both legs, residual numbness and lack of feeling in three toes on my left foot due to an asymptomatic slipped disk in my back. I had stitches in my pinky toe on my left foot because I couldn't feel it and continued to walk on it, not knowing how bad the cut was was until after I felt blood on the bottom of my foot later. If I'd have felt it, I could have figured out there was glass on the floor and pulled it out before it got too deep. I think that's about it. Other than being horribly nearsighted and partially deaf in one ear due to chronic ear infections and an unhealed perforation in my right eardrum. Shael
| "The best wine lies at the bottom of the pail/And Happiness lies below the navel." - Drukpa Kunley, "The Divine Madman of the Dragon Lineage" and "Saint of 5,000 Women". |
| Seventh Stage
Location: Boston, MA Gender: Male Total Likes: 3 likes
| | | Re: Tell us about your ailments < Reply # 8 on 11/23/2008 5:59 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Shael Both ankles broken at least 3 or 4 times, the right one needs total reconstructive surgery due to torn ligaments and the bones in the joint being broken so many times. Been putting that off because there's no guarantee that it won't fuse and leave me unable to walk. Worse comes to worse, I may have to shortly because it's continues to get worse, causing me to limp. Left and right patellas (kneecaps) cracked and/or broken once a piece, one is still sort of healing after being broken into 3 pieces earlier this year by a fall. Carpal tunnel in both wrists, not constant pain, but cramping in the hands after extensive use of them. Sciatica in both legs, residual numbness and lack of feeling in three toes on my left foot due to an asymptomatic slipped disk in my back. I had stitches in my pinky toe on my left foot because I couldn't feel it and continued to walk on it, not knowing how bad the cut was was until after I felt blood on the bottom of my foot later. If I'd have felt it, I could have figured out there was glass on the floor and pulled it out before it got too deep. I think that's about it. Other than being horribly nearsighted and partially deaf in one ear due to chronic ear infections and an unhealed perforation in my right eardrum. Shael
| Wow, that is an impressive list of horrible things that have happened to your lower portion. If you do not mind me asking, how is it that all that happened?
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| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
Baaaaah.
| | | Re: Tell us about your ailments < Reply # 9 on 11/23/2008 4:29 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Seventh Stage
Wow, that is an impressive list of horrible things that have happened to your lower portion. If you do not mind me asking, how is it that all that happened?
| It started when I was about five with my ear. Chronic ear infections because the eustacian tubes that drain into my throat are too small and tend to get blocked, when that happens, I get an infection. I live on a certain type of antihistamine and sudafed because there's a reaction you get between them that drains the tubes. My eardrum literally exploded when I was 7. I had a horrible earache that just wouldn't go away and on the way to the ER at Plattsburgh Air Base, it exploded in the back seat of the car. I couldn't even stand up. The worst part, it happened over about six hours. Ankles started later, mostly because when I was born, I was born knock kneed and pidgeon toed, so the tendons were weak in my ankles. I fell off of a bed when I was 9 and broke my right ankle the first time. I can't count how many times a stupid misstep or fall has caused a break or a sprain or a tear in them. Last break was from falling off a motorcycle when I was in college. A friend was teaching me how to drive his bike in a field, I hit the gas a little too hard and it got away from me. Kneecaps are from falling down stairs and catching the corner of the steps with them. I hurt my back sometime during my last job, I pretty much sat at a desk all day and my sister and I went on a trip. Sometime along that trip, what I believe happened was we were on an amusement park ride and I was pressed or bounced back into a very low back seat and it did something to my lower back, causing the disk issue and later the pressure on the nerve, which caused the sciatica. I get flare ups now and then, but the numbness won't go away. All the doctors I've been to said the numbness is a normal residual symptom and it probably never will go away. Carpal tunnel...I spend most of my free time on a laptop. My last job, the same one I sat at a desk all day for was basically data entry and claims processing, so it just breeds carpal tunnel. I think that covers everything. Shael
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