hi everyone i am in a lot of pain throughout the day but it is particularly bad in the night and first thing in the morning. i'm on amytriptaline which i think has helped a tiny bit now.
i wondered if anyone has found ways to resolve the stiffness/pain in the morning as it always seems to restart every morning??
A warm-hot shower as soon as you get up works for a lot of people. Gentle exercise, such as stretching, as being still for 8 hours is sure to seize to the joints. x
I’m with neonkittie on the shower. At my worst I struggle to sit up in bed and can barely shuffle from my room across to the bathroom - we live in a 2 up, 2 down, so we’re only talking a total of about 2.5m. First thing I do whenever I’m like that is have a shower. It probably doesn’t make any meaningful difference in practice, but it feels like it does, so I always start by taking the shower head down and targeting the spray at my hips and lower back as my three worst areas. After that, shower as normal. I still have to hang onto the sink to get back out, but it certainly enables me to move a bit better and reduces the pain somewhat.
another one here for gentle stretches and a warm shower to get moving in the morning.
lots of stretches before I even think about gettimg out of bed!
Mine is a slightly different answer 🙃. Get up, put cental heating on, hug coffee for a couple of hours, go on my ipad, and look at my park.
I think its really helps to lay in a lovely hot bath with bubbles and thaw out first thing in the morning! Enjoy.
Oh gosh I wish I could. I can't get out of a bath now 😔
I was just going to say the same. When we were having our downstairs bathroom converted into a shower room I had to use the en suite bath. Even only having a few inches of water in it he really struggled helping me out as he only has the one useful shoulder. One morning I slipped & that was it, after that I just stood in it whilst he washed the suds off me with a jug.
Hi Amy Wood, have you been prescribed painkillers if so when I was very bad I would take them about an hour before I got up with water and a biscuit so not on a empty stomach, this was a temporary measure before the other drugs started to work, hope this helps, best wishes Sarah 💕
That's what I did when my RA was uncontrolled. I struggled to get out of bed back then and no way could I exercise or shower.
It's common in RD I'm afraid, morning stiffness for around an hour, though it can last longer if not helped my anything. I was asked to take my NSAID at night to help ease the inflammation & in turn pain. Also, as others have said, a nice hot-side-of-warm shower help ease the pain & remaining in a warm dressing gown to retain that warmth until I get going properly. I still waddle like a duck first thing though!
I’ve been turning on my electric blanket for a while before I try & get up. For me, it seems to help warm the joints up before moving
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