Hurting hands...

[Guest guest]

I have been sitting for the last hour reading all the texts for the last week. Seeing the photos was a real treat.

Someone was talking about their hands (fingers) hurting. I have noticed that lately it seems that one of my hands falls asleep more often during the night. I wake up and it feels like it is so numb & swollen, but yet it looks normal. Also, my fingers and hands hurt so bad I have to get up using my elbows for support. If I was to try to close my hands in the morning it actually feels like my fingers are popping out of joint. I can even see them "thump" back and forth at the joint. It is so weird feeling! I usually hold them under very warm water to get them moving again.

My feet feel the same way. I have to use the walls for support until my feet start working. I feel 90 years old in the morning! As for sleep ... I go up and down with that. It seems that for weeks I'll be so tired I fall asleep @ 8pm. I sleep so deeply I snore! Then it will switch and I'm so tired I nearly cry for wanting to sleep. That's when I'll get out the "Simply Sleep" and pop a few. They seem to help me sleep without getting the morning headache.

Lately I have "thoughts" that just seem to run in and out of my head. I'll fall asleep by 9pm and then around 11 pm I'm laying there with "thoughts". Fall asleep and wake up again around 2am with "thoughts". Sometimes they are "did I pay this?" and then my stomach starts to cramp with worry. My memory is the pits!

My husband and I left the house with my sons (22 & 23 yrs old) and we moved on base at Mayport, FL ... living in a 5th wheel. What a great move that was! Less travel for him (we lived in Kingsland, GA) and now I have a friend to have coffee with, and to walk/exercise with. I'm 51 and she is 81, and she can run circles around me! We walk on a daily basis now, and even though I still hurt, it feels so good to just be out in the fresh air. Before I met "Lou" I would only walk on the days I had my granddaughter here (2-3 days a week).

I quit all my meds except Requip (RLS is worse than pain!) and Lipitor. I can't seem to see where the others worked ... the last I tried was Neurontin, and after a month of that I saw no change, so go rid of it. I keep reading all your texts and they are so helpful - but just haven't found that "med" that works for me yet. It is so heartwarming to read how you all find humor in all this pain. Laughter really is the best medicine!

(Kingsland/Mayport)