Pain

[Karen54karma]

I've been suffering lately with really bad pain in my joints, knees shoulders are in agony along aide my back and hip pain on a regime of meds that don't seem to be working, does anyone have any advice on something to do to eliminate the pain

[Kitten-whiskers]

Hello Karen,

Sorry you are suffering so much, it's awful when it gets like that.

I would recommend Trigger Point Therapy, If you can not get to see someone, you can do it yourself - I do both - I find it really helpful and yoga as well- if thats something you are well enough to do, nice and gently

Best wishes

Debs

[AlteredWorld]

Hello Karen,

sorry you are in pain hell... if you are lucky it might be dairy or lactose intolerance...

I was doing some eliminating diet work on myself and coupled with being in an online group where another person was experiencing higher levels of pain than normal... a third person in the group had found milk was their issue.

Yes, strange... anyhoo, it turned out, that for me it's lactose, not all dairy, that inflames and heightens pain in all my joints - it makes typing a nightmare, cos it affects every joint.

I also take tumeric concoctions - but if you overdue tumeric it inflames the gut - so - I'll just say try out a lacto-free milk/cream, oh, and tomatoes - avoid tomatoes, well-known to increase rhuematoid pain as well.

This is not medical advice, it works for me, it may be of no use to you at all. Just thought I'd put this out there cos it's a non-medical treatment for the price of a pint of milk.

Good luck xx

[JayCeon]

Just catching up, esp. on posts with few answers like yours...These sound like local pains rather than the overall ache we also have.

These I managed to get down with gently physiotherapy (osteopathy, then expert acupressure, as well as gentle, very short (3-20 seconds) but regular (many times a day) and increasing exercising, esp. stretching, esp. when the ache is not too bad.)

If your meds aren't helping, then they are definitely harming, so I'd wean off them and would try different routes like supps.

Symptom analysis and trigger hunting are also basics to get some of the local pains down. E.g. once you find out with what kind of action / posture they happen, you can think about what you were doing before and how you can do that differently.

For all this youtube videos are a valuable help, very often you can just type in the kind of pain you mean and will get several suggestions - some of these will be wrong, but that can still give you an idea what it isn't, others may help, but you may need to adapt them, esp. if it's not for people with fibro. Good videos will always say be careful, keep it gentle. But even gym type videos can have good ideas.