off work.again
off work.again Time to let rip!!
I was so excited to get back to some sense of normality, ie work. Howver my arthritic knees have reacted so badly to working again, that I have seen my rheumatologist who injected them and advised me not to teach classes tonight, or for the next 2 Tuesdays when they get injected again.
I am SO FED UP with not being well. It just isn’t fair, I’ve fought so damn hard to get fit following cancer surgery, and find my knees are just as crap as they were before. Not so much dancinggirl as limpinggirl.
sorry, this is pretty trivial really, I’m just so tired of it.
love to everyone who’s feeling peed off with Life
x Helen
bad luck but it is silly to hurt your arthritic knees further by overdoing things. Have you thought of taking up less strenuous activities such as meditation? Sorry I don’t suppose my words will be much comfort to someone as active as you.
Mole
Arthritis I have experienced arthritis in my back and hips but miraculously when diagnosed it went away - great! So when on my building up fitness regime - joined a gym (very boring) only to do serious damage to my feet. Couldn’t walk very well and couldn’t play badminton too easily. As we have horses and a dog not walking too well is not easy - jobs to be done. Went on holiday to Prague diasaster - all cobbles . Got my feet injected a few weeks ago and although it didn’t seem to make much difference I found that a purchase of ‘kicker’ boots great…I could walk and am back to playing badminton 2 x a week.
However I do know that my life is now about balancing minor health issues and I try to realise that and not push it too much. I will undoubtedly fail - basically because the only way I survive is to forget about all these irritating ailments. I’m not sure I’m best placed to give advice but my experience tells me to take it slowly for best results, otherwise it’s snakes and ladders. I do so share your frustration tho Helen. Take care.
I’m sorry Hi Helen,
I’m sorry you’ve had to give up teaching for a while. Getting fit again after a mastectomy is a real achievement. Not only do we have to cope with the chest scars, tightness and a sore arm, getting over the fatigue is a huge achievement it itself.
Think how far you’ve come since your op…miles, well done. This is a hiccup and you will get beyond this point. Your knees will behave in a week or two and you be back in that gym making some other poor so and so’s knees ache!!
Love to you, and keep up the great work.
Go Dancing Girl !
Love Flora xx
Off work too… Hi,
I am also off work, i had a mastectomy in December 2004, and was recovering at home.i was doing my physio exercises. Apart from the numbness. i felt able to go back to work. I did go back and a month later, i was off again, with pain in my chest area and in my back. Well my latissimus dorsi muscle to be exact. I have been off for 3 months and am fed up now. I too just wanted to return to normality, so i can sympathise with what you are saying.
Did anyone else suffer with pain in their latissimus dorsi muscle??
Elvina
xx
scuba diving Wondered if anyone could offer any advice from experience. I finished my radiation treatment 2 weeks ago (fortunately I didn’t have to have chemo). I had a lumpectomy & lymph node clearance and am currently on tamoxifen. We are going to Tobago in 4 weeks from some much needed R&R. I hope to dive if I have the energy, I have been recreational diving for 2 years. I have been told that diving should be ok but wanted to check if others had been diving after treatment and what their experience was.
Thanks
Bev
diving Hi Bev,
I think you should make this a new post.
(your R&R sounds great! I’m off to Marrakesh in 2 weeks. We deserve it!)
x Helen
know how you feel Just read your post Helen and know exactly how you feel.
I have arthritic knees but can still run though nothing like the past. It’s a passion and I love doing it. Anyway, just back on the road after BC and put my knee out after joining in a fitness class with my daughter. Ugh! Fed up is not the word.
Is there someone up there looking down and saying “Take that if you think you’re going to have it easier!”
I was hoping to get back to my gardening job in the spring but was told it would be a bit too soon. Another Ugh!
Well, my lovely husband says to take it easy, it will all come right in the end. So hold that thought.
Love Zeb
xx
knees My sympathies! Isn’t BC enough? No-one knows how painful knees can be 'til it happens to them…then they look at me with ‘new’ eyes.
I am back to work now, and have had 3 weekly injections of synthetic synovial fluid into the joints. The 2nd time I asked my rhuematologist for local anaesthetic first (these are BIG needles!). He jokingly called me a baby, so I showed him my hip-to-hip ab scar, and he said ’ OK, you’ve obviously had enough pain!’
When I’m not teaching classes, I’m a garden designer, so I can understand your frustration there too! I noticed the snowdrops appearing yesterday, when I did my first bit of gardening since surgery. So spring is on the way.
I really hope your knee behaves, so you can get back to work soon, but you will need to take it easy first (and I am the world’s worst for this) Are you having physio?
love, Helen xx
Hi Helen I think I left most of my brain out on the road when running. How could I have been stupid enough to try an exercise class with all the twisting and jumping. Anyway left knee is out big time at the moment. I’m blaming it on Tamoxifen!
I had a course of physio a couple of years ago and I must say the exercises really worked and the knees were great. Just have to be sensible (Ha Ha)
I’ve been learning gardening on the job and my clients have been great. I also attend a horticultural course, the next unit being garden design. That must be so satisfying, seeing your design develop.
I’ve had lots of comments about this time of year being the best to have cancer! Hmmm, could think of better things to be doing…
Glad you’re back at work. Do you see the rheumatologist privately and do the injections work well?
Yeah, I always tell everyone else to take it easy but don’t know what that means myself!!!
Love Zeb
xx
off work too! Hi Helen
Like you, I’m really cheesed off with still feeling unwell. I finished chemo on 16th Nov and radiotherapy on 18th Jan. (Had lumpectomy in June 05.) Started back to work part time a few weeks ago for a week but then had awful raw skin under my breast following radiotherapy & couldn’t get dressed. While that was happening I came down with a flu like virus which laid me up in bed for another week. Doctor gave me antibiotics because my chest was bit wheezy and then I came out in a rash all over - seems now I’m allergic to penicillin all of a sudden! Now this week, rash has gone but I’ve been in terrible pain with sore, stiff swollen hands, knuckles & wrists which a nurse friend of mine says looks exactly like rheumatoid arthritis! Also my ankles are very stiff in the mornings - I walk a bit like Ozzy Osbourne! The pain in my hands keeps me awake at night for hours. Has anyone else developed arthritic problems after treatment and is it permanent? Or it could be lack of oestrogen due to menopause causing it.
But keep smiling! Our bodies have taken quite a bashing and recovery will take a while I imagine.
Love
Bev x
enough!!! Hi Bev,
I do feel for you. Isn’t BC enough???!!!
I know how much joints can hurt, so you have my sympathy. It always feels better in warmer weather, so look forward to spring (or get a holiday!)
Speaking of which…I have 4 days in marrakesh booked from Thurs, but my 16 year old daughter seems to be having panic attacks, so it looks like we can’t leave her. I am so fed up, as I was so keen to get away and have a treat.
They say to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. Seems true.
Have you asked your GP for anti-inflammatories to help the joints?
Hope improvement is on its way
Warm hugs (((((( Bev)))))))
love, Helen