Well everyone i can now relax as the decorations are all done. I have paid the price as i'm not sleeping well again. The house looks like santas grotto now. So i have taken some photos to show you all.
I haven't done much today,i was downstairs at 5.30 this morning, so now i'm sitting downstairs with laptop and strictly come dancing and a cup of tea. \\nothing better.
Hello Sylvi well done you. Looking good.
My kids wanted to do their christmas shopping today so i loaded myself with all the pain relief and drove to a real handy shopping centre where I can park downstairs (free) get a trolley and use that as a stabiliser on my journey around the shop, they also have tall stools in a coffee shop which means i can sit down and get up without making a spectacle of myself so all in all it was a good 2 hours and my little girls are happy.
Sylvi i have noticed that if i take tramadol just before bedtime, i drop off to sleep immediately but wake 6 hours later - i have experimentied this week and have been taking the tramadol as soon as i get home from work and the codeine at the end of the day and i find that I have a longer sleep. (very painful neck and shoulders all week but had been able to sleep through it on the good nights) Would any of your medication be keeping you awake?
Mads, i take paracetamol just before i drop off. I also take amytrptaline in the evening,i take 20mg about 2hrs before i want to settle down to sleep. Its 5.15am when i wrote your answer.I took 30mg of the amytrp, last night to help me sleep,didn't work this time,but how much of that is due to the pain i'm in is anybodies guess. I have a hard splint for nighttime for my right hand. It didn't matter what i did last night i couldn't get comfy. Hubby didn't get home from work until 1.00am and Grace came in just after 12.00 and i was in tears then. The pain was in both hands and knees,i didn't know where to put myself,still don't hence me being down here at silly o'clock. I don't think the weather is helping either as it was blowing a gale last night. I could cry at the moment,but seeing you had put something on my blog has helped. I have to answer you,so you see you've been very helpful,thank you for that.
I'm still in a lot of pain at the moment,but at least i can relax knowing the decorations are done and i can post some of photos on here. My head feels ok i just ache.
Doesn't ypur shopping centre do a shop mobility scheme whereby you could use a scooter,nuneaton do,not that i need it,but it's nice to know its there. That might have helped you. I don't know how old your children are,could they have left you at a coffee shop and gone of together to do their shopping? just a thought. I will go off and then meet hubby later if i get too tired i just sit in said coffee shop and wait for him.
I'm trying not to feel sorry for myself this morning so i'll end this before i get too bad.
Take care my friend. love sylvi. xx
Hope you feel a wee bit better by now Sylvi, there is nothing so awful - no position makes you feel better, and it must be frustrating when you don't know if it is the ra or fibro or both that is making you worse. Kids are too young to be let off by themselves (10 and 6) and there is a mobility scheme but i can hobble rightly.
Feel sorry for yourself, have a good cry because it is damned unfair and i hope you get a decent rest today.
Mads i won't be doing much today i can tell you. I've had to take my wedding ring off now that hurts. I've put it on a chain hubby brought some years ago.My fingers are very swollen,i know my right was bad,but my left hand is getting as bad now. It breaks my heart to do it,but if i take them of now and if my finger settles down i can put them back on again.
Mads you made yourselve bad yesterday by walking round with your children is it worth it when you could have had a scooter you could have carried all the shopping on it. I'm afraid to say i've had to resort to using shops scooters as i wouldn't be able to walk round the stores.
You rest as well my friend,i won't be going far either.
Sylvi. xxx
Sylvie, i seem to feel crap whether i do something or nothing so for the past week or so i have been pushing myself and though i don't feel good, i don't feel very much worse and mentally i feel better. I was visiting my mother today which was interesting.
My mother who is 79 and is fit as a fiddle - she uses public transport to go to the local town every week to get her hair done. She had a sore back lately and was seeking an explanation, well guess what her rheumatoid factor has come back high and she is currently on steroids and is waiting on an appointment with the rheumatologist. I was the first ever to suffer from ra in my family and it has been the topic of discussion as to where i had picked it up from. So obviously the genes have got it.
Tired and sore tonight now - working from home tomorrow so that is good.
hope you get a good nights sleep tonight.
hope you two are feeling better I work so stiff this morning with painful hands and knees, will take something before bed myself, I have had a couple of disturbed nights
Hi ladies! I have read all the blogs between Sylvie, Mads, tilda, scouser and summer. It really makes me sad to know you all are in so much pain and not sleeping well. That is just not right. Do you report to your Rheumatologist about these facts? Do you take your pain meds on a schedule, ie, every 4 hours?
I have learned it is far better to prevent the pain than to try to get relief once it is taking over. I do get busy and forget..often when I am here
so I set the timer in the kitchen to remind me.
I can't help wonder if perhaps it is time for the anti tnfs, such as Enbrel, or Humira, or Simponi. Good idea to talk to your Rheumy very frankly. It's your body, tell him or her you want to use it as much as other people use theirs. To be more active,etc. Whatever it takes to convince him you seriously want what will get you to that point.
If you awake in 5-6 hours, take another dose of Tramadol, or Vicodin, or both and get back to sleep. You will be much brighter in the morning.
On a personal note, my hands and fingers and wrists are really crappy today. Had to write checks and pay bills, still have Christmas Cards to do, but also had to finish putting a wreath on the door and do some laundry and didn't feel like cooking supper, so had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Really wanted a cookie but didn't have any. Just as well, I would have eaten too many.
Also, in blogging with lavandarlady, I told her I would send some cookie recipes. So I did, they are in another blog for all of you.
Big day tomorrow, as my daughter-in-law,Cindy, will come to take me grocery shopping, to the bank and also the Fabric Shoppe. I ahve a condrete goos out front I dress for each season and she needs a new winter coat. SAo hoping to find a piece of remnant large enough to make a cape and matching hat and scarf. Maybe trim it with fake fur. Except..I am really worried that my hands are not going to be able to do it.
Then tomorrow evening a dear friend in nearby Fremont has invited another friend, Gail and I to come spend the evening, enjoy her decor, maybe sip a little something.
Tues I will spend the day preparing to have 4 friends for lunch on Weds. It's a birthday for Pat, and Janice and Mary and Sue will come to spend the day with her. I'm aiming to make Chicken cordon bleu, and Fettucine Alfredo. I can get the chicken breasts already prepared, just have to bake them, make the sauce and noodles, which I can do ahead of time. I know I set myself up for these things, but these are my 4 dearest, best friends, and we will giggle and laugh and enjoy being with each other for a few hours. They all have arthritis and fibro, so we have lots in common.
Miss Bridget just came to tell me it was time I gave her some attention, and so I shall. She probably ate all her kitty food.
Girls, you have to do what it takes to be comfortable, please tell your dr. how things are and ask for something more efficient to take. Take care of you!
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