Guest guest Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 , I know that it is so hard to keep up the faith. I too have had ribs fracture from all the years on prednisione. It sucks. I also totally understand the want to be "well"-- I wish I knew the answer on how to do that. When I get to where you are at-- is when I have to sit myself down, put on a guided imagery tape, or grab the virtual blanket and wrap myself into a self-loving cacoon. It is so important that we make ourself do this-- and know that even with where we are at physically and emotionally, that it is ok. The sadness and the joy, will both be with us---- and we can handle it. And if we can't, we give it to our loved ones for a short while, and they can carry the emotional burdens. We just have to let them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Just another week with a stupid disease and it all began so innocently... I was feeling so much better I began swimming again for fitness. I strained a muscle in my back which the doctor recommended a massage therapist help with. The massage hurt somewhat, but nothing I did not expect after being tight. 3 days later I was getting a full-body nuclear bone scan, which the neurologist had ordered some time ago. The thecnologist found a recently fractured rib! Turns out that when the massage therapist and I " felt a pop " in my back it wasn't just a rib moving, but that it fractured. This is the third fracture in 2 years that has happened from routine activities. Since I have been on high doses of steroids for several years (up and down doses depending on symptoms) I have been taking fosomax and extra vitiamin D/calcium. My last bone density scan showed improvement, yet, here again is fracture. Talk about discouraging. The fracture in my lfet foot from 18 months ago never healed and needed a pin surgically placed in the bone. I don't want to think about my rib doing the same thing. I am getting so tired. And family just shrugs it off. They act as if it is a small wrinkle. The remicade is working so what are you depressed about? Well, to me, it seems I trade one problem for another. It's not enough for me to not be sick, I want to be " well " too. Too high a goal? I still hang onto wanting to be myself again. Unrealistic? Boy, am I rambling... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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