Does anyone ever feel like their joints have cement in them .... thick heavy cement and the cement is starting to harden? Yeah. But that's more what FM feels like. RA is very painful and they feel weaker. You also might have some kind of claudification going on which is a blood flow problem. I would see what your doctor thinks. My joints usually feel like the bones are cracked.And mine feel as though they're on fire - but not full of cement.
I told my family recently that my bad knee and hip felt like something was gnawing on them with sharp teeth! (I might not use that turn of phrase on my rheumatologist though...)lol wendy! I like that one, makes sense :) I will be using it in future.
It is true wendy....it's like a little mouse in there..."munch munch crunch crunch gnaw!"
good times. Can I get to see Hillhoney and msjoey's avatars dance? Now, that would be cool. My pain varies depending on the joint. Sometimes it is hot and painful. It grinds in my neck. We won't talk about knees. Seems they have a mind of their own and can come up with unique ways of expressing torment from swelling and aching, sharp pain to the crunching, collapsing, sharp (cause something's torn and something's worn) kind of chorus. It's always a surprise when I move. My ankles are like small inner tubes that feel solid and nagging. They rank least of all my pain, but look terrible at times. I consider whether I should be worried about them. But then all the other parts speak up and I pass them by in my consideration. Toes every once in awhile will have sudden, sharp pains that can out yell all the other joints. How can such small joints muster such clarity? Sometimes they freeze up in paralysis. I'll take some calcium and then they relax a bit. Fingers ache and stiffen. If really bad, the simple pressure of typing is too much. Left elbow swells and ache with a deepness that goes to the bone. Hips are relunctant participants and flare when all other parts are active. The pain is sharp in the groin from the fluid that's there and ache with a clarity that makes every position uncomfortable. Spine is an unrelenting cascade of sharp, twisting pain. If feels as though some cruel being took a railroad spike and shoved it at the bottom of my skull which hurts like it is being crushed. Can a skull implode from this kind of pressure as the vise is tightened? Shoulder is sharp, uncontrollable pain that spreads down the arm and into the hand. At that point, it is solid and my shoulder becomes frozen and stiff, unusable and the pain is continuous. Moving it during this phase will draw an unwilling scream even in the middle of sleeping. The other shoulder begins to mirror the left one, like a soft echo with an underlying threat that soon it will be as bad. I can provide a much better description tonight because everything hurts. There's nothing more to take and I can't connect a TENs to every part of my body, find a heating pad big enough, enough ice. This is when I really get discouraged. How can they say this is FM not under control and that my RA is? Tomorrow morning, I will awake and be stiff for at least two hours. I'll don my knee braces. I won't be without pain. But it will be lessor than tonight. Saturday nights are always this way for me. It's when I take my MTX and I think all that medicine has worn off. Often my blood sugar drops dangerously low and I'm nauseated. But morning will be better. God bless mornings because it seems He has cursed the night. And sleep is the blessing, unless I move wrong and scream out in pain.
different times. I like the description of something
with sharp teeth nawing at my bones. I suppose I'm the same... the pain varies depending on the joint.
My wrists often feel like they are in a vice and it is being tightened
around them, it's almost like a crushing feeling.
Do try the wrist splints. I wear them at night and when I am doing any kind of lifting. They do wonders.
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