Re: Circulating Arthritis Pain?

[Guest guest]

Ken and All:

Gout, which I suffer from, is a form of arthritis and I can tell you that if I

am unable to " catch " it early enough and fend it's severe effects off, I will

suffer with it from two to three weeks.

Case in point; I traveled during the recent Christmas holidays. Christmas

morning I woke up with it in my right elbow. Over the following 15 days it

migrated from my elbow joint down into my wrist where it remains today even

though the pain is lessening with the medications. This is not uncommon.

When I first started getting gout attacks after I turned 50, they would often

stay around one of my big toe joints. In the past 10 years I have had them in

my knees, finger joints including the thumbs and deep inside one or the other

foot. It has not been uncommon at all for them to start in one place and " move "

to another joint nearby.

In the case of gout, I'm told it's the uric acid crystals which my body is

unable is eliminate on it's own so it would seem logical that since they develop

in the blood stream, they could be carried by the blood to other parts of the

body.Keavan

>Ken wrote:

Is there anyone here who experiences the following: what about arthritis pain

which " circulates " from one area of the body to another. one day, several days,

a week, the ankles hurt (subtalar joint arthritis) but other areas are mild or

non painful, then one day, the knees hurt bad, but the ankles are mild to non

painful.

[Guest guest]

Dear Ken:

 

I also have 'circulating' arthrtitis pain.  Somedays my shoulders will hurt,

then other days my ankles.  Somedays I'll have 'dead' left arm from my shoulder

going out and somedays 'dead' right arm for the same reason.  I think part of it

is that I just strain things every day doing different things.  I'll have days

where I can't close my hands or grab on to anything.

 

I have some arthritis pain that hurts the same every day (destroyed left knee

and right hip and thoracic spine) but the other pains are all over the place

each day.  Yesterday I had to carry a gallon of milk into the house from the

car.  Now today I can barely move my right shoulder.  That kind of thing.  It

really is frustrating.  I always refer to it as just another movement in the

symphony of pain that is my life.  Sometimes it's pianissimo and other days

furioso. 

- PA

 

 

>Ken wrote:

Is there anyone here who experiences the following: what about arthritis pain

which " circulates " from one area of the body to another. one day, several days,

a week, the ankles hurt (subtalar joint arthritis) but other areas are mild or

non painful, then one day, the knees hurt bad, but the ankles are mild to non

painful.

[Guest guest]

Dear Ones,

I also have I also have 'circulating' pain. It is called Fibromyalgia. This

along with the other syndromes I have cause different pains in different areas.

Some days it may start in my shoulders and back then go to my hips ,knees,

ankles, wrists, thumbs,elbows and collarbone. I have " floating " pain. It makes

it's way around my whole body and there are parts that are in constant pain,like

my hips back and feet. I have diabetic neuropathy. I also have what I call razor

pain That is when anything touching my skin feels like razors cutting in.

I have arthritis in my tail bone, ankles, and wrists. It is starting in my

hips now. That is what the x-rays say.

As far as the 'circulating' arthritis pain goes My doc called it Fibromyalgia

because it not only floats but it has certain points on your body called trigger

points and tender points. There are 20 of the tender points. I have all 20 plus

the 18 trigger points. All you need to be disabled by social security is 11. My

body has turned against me as I got older. My mother has fibromyalgia and my

sister on my fathers side also has fibromyalgia. So I got it from both sides.

Plus my pregnancies caused another pain syndrome I can never remember that

name. All I know is I have many things wrong with my body and i take a lot of

pills to counteract the pain and other problems I have.

Gentle hugs,

Ms.Katurah