This happens to me often lately, and I was wondering if it is arthritis related. I have been replacing someone at work. She has a desk job. When I get up to go to lunch or my break, or even when I get up to go to the washroom... my upper thighs are sore. It is like a muscle pain between my knee and hip, but on the sides. I am very stiff too. I can't seem to straighten up until I am halfway down the hall. I know the being stiff is arthritis related, but the muscle soreness... it is just a strange thing. I haven't been exercising lately and I am hoping it isn't because I am getting really out of shape. I worked so hard to loose 30 pounds last summer. I know I have gained some of it back though.... none of my summer clothes fit me anymore! Dar, if I didn't know better, it would be me that you are describing. I can't sit for long periods of time as there's hell to pay when I get up. Both my RA and OA docs told me that it's from my arthritis in my hips and knees and that carrying extra weight doesn't help my joints. All I know is that when I was lighter, I still had the problem but then my knee joints are not straight. They turn towards the inside of my leg, one more then the other. I'm a crooked old lady as my hips aren't even either. The other thing is I can't wear shoes with a heel. This will make me feel like I'm off balance. For me it's flats or my Frankenstein shoes!
MarisaI've got the sore thigh muscles too! After I sit for any length of time I have to get up slowly and un-bend myself. The muscles are SOOOO stiff!You sound exactly like me. I'm bent over like an old man when I get up after sitting. This weekend we took a car trip and I had so much trouble after getting out of the car that I limped for about 20 minutes afterwards. Also, If I stoop down to reach a low file cabinet, I don't have the strength in my legs to get up again . I have to hold on to something, or someone has to help me.
LindaK, that is so much like me too! If I have to bend down to file charts or get anything on the bottom shelves or floor (I seem to have this problem of dropping things a lot too these days! Yesterday, I broke three cups!), I can't get back up. I have to hawl myself up from the other shelves or hoist myself up from something else. Just six months ago, I had worked my way to doing 20 squats with my ten pound weights! Now, I drop a pen on the floor ( which I did around ten times today. Murphy's Law I guess!), I can't get back up! I have stopped all exercise though. I have gained some. Starting to see a double chin again. I don't see how I can get this bad so fast though. I still eat healthy. I just don't have any energy to exercise when I get home from work. My work environment drains what little energy I have left by the end of the day. Still, I need to do something.
Thanks everyone for your responces! I thought I was going crazy. My joints hurt, sure, but my muscles? This is just one weird thing after another.
In the morning, the stiffness is much worse than a year ago. I feel like the tin man before Dorothy arrived with the tin can.
Sometimes I wish my kids still lived at home just so they could help me get off my butt. Best solution is not to be still until I have to be. But once I'm asleep, all bets are off.
I have the same problem. When I get out of the car, I can't stand up straight. In fact, today I had my nails done. When I had to get up from the chair to wash my hands, I couldn't straighten up for a spell & I have soreness in my butt fat cheeks. lol It is sorta hard to explain, but the muscle or bone, I'm not sure which, hurts me.
I swear, when I get out of bed in the morning, I start to ask myself, What is going to hurt me today.I do know that my hands & neck & knees will be hurting. I'm worrying about my neck. I can just about turn it from side to side a little ways.
I just hope I can lose some of this weight that I gained. I finally found a dress today to wear to a wedding Friday night. Size 16W. I have never been that size in my life.
Your right Dar, there is always one weird
Trisha
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