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[daisygreen9]

thanks for the welcome !not sure how the posting thing works im not tech savvy ! im 60 in nov and am using diet to try and cope with pain .my symptoms started in may 2021..ive only had a drs diagnosis and am waiting for a rheumatology app .im not taking pred.. as i m having treatment for long standing dental infection ....

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Hi daisygreen9, I am 60 in December!!!I don't know where you're from I am in the UK. I find it difficult to get the doctors here to diagnose anything and when they do they don't give you much information about it.

At one point I was on a cocktail of pain-killers and just spent the day half asleep - or actually asleep.

I was sent to the pain management course and weaned off half of them, and had one changed to a much better one.

What treatment are you having for your dental infection? I have had numerous infections over the last few years and lost 5 teeth because of it. I've had 3 dentists in that time and none of them has actually done anything to help other than tell me to clean my teeth properly, which I had thought I was doing (I floss, brush with an electric toothbrush and use interdental brushes.)