Re : Heating Pads

[Guest guest]

Hi!

I must say I couldn't face life without my good old-fashioned hot

water bottle! I have needed one from childhood onwards to help to

see me through my attacks.

I am 59 to-day, BTW! That's a lifetime of hot water bottles! After

several good weeks I have had a bad panc day to-day but just about

managed to enjoy a concert this evening all the same, dosed up, as

well as appreciating my cards and pressies. I will definitely need

that hot water bottle to-night. I didn't eat anything different so I

don't know what caused the attack except that I am just getting over

a bad bout of flu and a chest infection and have been on antibiotics

for 7 days; maybe there's a link there.

The only disadvantage of the bottle is the mottling that can occur

if you have it too hot. I have a delightfully mottled tum. I have

read on one of the medical sites that this mottling is considered

typical in CP patients. I wish I could remember which site discusses

this; it gives the mottling its correct medical name too, derived

from the Greek. The same site has a sketch of a CP patient in the

typical position we often adopt, sitting bent forward, to try to

alleviate our pain. Both the mottling and the bent-forward position

make me a pretty typical CP patient according to this particular

site! I have often adopted the foetal position too, clutching my

bottle to me, as the only way to achieve a little relief.

I'm sorry if anyone has negative experiences with heat as a source

of relief. I generally advise people to try it (including warm baths)

but we are all individuals, of course.

Hope it doesn't happen again.

With good wishes,

Fliss (UK)