Re: Getting them to understand

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Hi Al;

Give your meds a little time to work. You will feel better soon.

Cheers.

alblau999 <alblau999@...> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks, and Kathe, for your replies. I'm in physical

therapy, and now that I have a firm diagnosis, I can be authorized

for many more sessions. I take tramadol and wear lidoderm

patches on my upper spine for pain, and Methocarbamol at

night. I don't know what that does for my disease collection, but

it helps me sleep.

I have OA and bursitis in both shoulders. My rheumy

demonstrated by squeezing first the ball of the shoulder then

closer to my neck. The first ouch was bursitis and the second

was OA (I think, unless I have it reversed).

Anyway, how to explain how this feels to me? Easy. Take the

fattest small child you can find and put heavy shoes on her or

him, and have the child sit on your head with both feet on your

shoulders. And what is my walking like? Again, easy. Wear

weight shoes, and attach weights to your thighs and lower legs

and start hiking.