When I read your posts I ask myself- How does this woman take this day in and day out?
Hope you found some relief.
Joonie....that's EXACTLY how my knees feel when they are swollen. Hope you can get the swelling down and feel better. I am sorry you are feeling so bad now. Take your pain meds at the same time every day... It worked great for me to do that.. It's a more consistant relief than I found otherwise..
hang in there your knees feel that way because you have wasted quad muscles and weakened support tissue
YOU NEED PHYSICAL THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hi joonie.. whith all that water retention you could be the water bed..
seriouse now.. i have knees that now face inwards.. xrays show mild erosions
and the surgeon said the spaces in the knee are now filled whith fluid and
pushing my knees inward.. i asked if they could be straightend whith splints.
but he said to push them back my knees would need to be broken..
and said it was more to do whith my meds and treatment of ra..
but as i am stuck whith pred and no dmrd. nothing has changed..
just trying to say i hope you get sorted out.. but things are not so straightforeward
Boney
[QUOTE=buckeye]your knees feel that way because you have wasted quad muscles and weakened support tissue
YOU NEED PHYSICAL THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I know I need PT. I was working on that, but then rest of this crap cropped up and now I have to deal with all of it. And find people to take me to dr appt after dr appt.
If memory serves me correct the last time my knees and hip felt like this was august of last year, when I had a fibro flare & RA flare at the same time. Which a month later I went to the ER for the same problem.
My muscles do not feel sore that all the time, only when I am flaring. When I was doing so well while on the Remicade I done a lot of walking and for me some "power" walking; you would think with all that I done when I felt good my muscles would have been sore like they are now, but they did not even feel sore. Which trying to keep up with hubby. I made that my goal to keep up with hubby, and most times I did until my right hip started getting worse again.
[QUOTE=wanttobeRAfree]Joonie
When I read your posts I ask myself- How does this woman take this day in and day out?
Hope you found some relief.
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Because it is not an everyday occerance.
[QUOTE=buckeye]your knees feel that way because you have wasted quad muscles and weakened support tissue
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