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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 653615" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>Hi Anna, I feel your pain, literally <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I have suffered with crippling spondylitis of the lower spine for years at least two or three times as long as I have been diabetic but it has got worse over time so where as it started off causing me to have odd weeks off work with a "bad back" inflamed and painful, now it manifests itself in constant pain down the inside of my right leg from groin to my big toe and the pain can come and goe in different places day by day and hour by hour. This pain I am told is caused by a nerve or nerves having been killed due to prolonged pain and is untreatable other than with pain killers from which I have tried most over the years and am now using synthesised morphine patches which I have found to be a game changer that allow me to do things mobility wise that have been impossible at times before now <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>The symptoms are like many other type of arthritis and are a malformation of bone on a joint or in my case a disk in the lower back and the inflammation caused by this. After being diagnosed with diabetes and losing over 4 stones (over 5 stones now) that helped the inflammation no end and even today I rarely get back pain now but due to the damaged nerve/s I still get the leg pain.</p><p></p><p>So losing weight and taking the weight off joints can help enormously although thats not going to help much if your arthritis is in your hands obviously but for arthritis in knees, legs and back it could be the best thing you can do but do it sooner rather than later or like me you can suffer permanent nerve damage.</p><p></p><p>Pain killers: paracetamol is a brilliant pain killer but it needs to be taken regularly every 6 hours for it to perform at its best, its no good taking it when the pain gets bad which is what I used to do and ended up with damaged nerves!! Taking a pain killer regularly will also have the advantage of a constant dribble of pain relief rather than an up and down wave if you only take it as necessary, this may or may not be true of other pain killers but it is definitely true of paracetamol as I was told by a consultant who knows his stuff where pain is concerned.</p><p></p><p>I found that pain relief is all about getting the drug and the dose that suits you as it relates directly to the amount of pain you are in and both the amount of inflammation and the malformed bone structure.</p><p></p><p>Anyone who says that diet can help with arthritis is kidding themselves <strong>there is no diet on earth that can change malformed bone structure</strong> and those who write books saying such things should IMHO be tarred and feathered and run out of town as quacks and charlatans.</p><p></p><p>There is a very small but good forum run by Jan Sadler MBE that I found useful and still visit occasionally , find it here <a href="http://www.painsupport.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.painsupport.co.uk/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 653615, member: 19121"] Hi Anna, I feel your pain, literally ;) I have suffered with crippling spondylitis of the lower spine for years at least two or three times as long as I have been diabetic but it has got worse over time so where as it started off causing me to have odd weeks off work with a "bad back" inflamed and painful, now it manifests itself in constant pain down the inside of my right leg from groin to my big toe and the pain can come and goe in different places day by day and hour by hour. This pain I am told is caused by a nerve or nerves having been killed due to prolonged pain and is untreatable other than with pain killers from which I have tried most over the years and am now using synthesised morphine patches which I have found to be a game changer that allow me to do things mobility wise that have been impossible at times before now :) The symptoms are like many other type of arthritis and are a malformation of bone on a joint or in my case a disk in the lower back and the inflammation caused by this. After being diagnosed with diabetes and losing over 4 stones (over 5 stones now) that helped the inflammation no end and even today I rarely get back pain now but due to the damaged nerve/s I still get the leg pain. So losing weight and taking the weight off joints can help enormously although thats not going to help much if your arthritis is in your hands obviously but for arthritis in knees, legs and back it could be the best thing you can do but do it sooner rather than later or like me you can suffer permanent nerve damage. Pain killers: paracetamol is a brilliant pain killer but it needs to be taken regularly every 6 hours for it to perform at its best, its no good taking it when the pain gets bad which is what I used to do and ended up with damaged nerves!! Taking a pain killer regularly will also have the advantage of a constant dribble of pain relief rather than an up and down wave if you only take it as necessary, this may or may not be true of other pain killers but it is definitely true of paracetamol as I was told by a consultant who knows his stuff where pain is concerned. I found that pain relief is all about getting the drug and the dose that suits you as it relates directly to the amount of pain you are in and both the amount of inflammation and the malformed bone structure. Anyone who says that diet can help with arthritis is kidding themselves [B]there is no diet on earth that can change malformed bone structure[/B] and those who write books saying such things should IMHO be tarred and feathered and run out of town as quacks and charlatans. There is a very small but good forum run by Jan Sadler MBE that I found useful and still visit occasionally , find it here [url]http://www.painsupport.co.uk/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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