Which body part is currently letting you down?

My lumbar spine has decided to rip itself apart and try to escape its confines. You?

It hasnt let me down yet..................:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

:woohoo:

Goes out on me every couple years. :( It's happened about 5 times so far.

And it really hurts when it does. Someday I'm going to have to see about getting it operated on. :(

I'm taking oral steroids 4-5 times a year and inhaled steroids daily to keep breathing. :(

I've got joint problems, but those are unlikely to kill you at inopportune moments. :(

Every allergen known to humanity is found here. In mass quantities.

Bake

feel like they're lined with sandpaper. Weather related most likely. Accuweather has put our "arthritis index" at the Extreme rating recently.

Sorry to hear about your poor back...any pain there has for me been much more ouchy than the inconvenience my joints are giving me. Hope you can find some relief soon.

:hi:

Makes an interesting grinding noise, when I go up stairs.

Last year I was playing B-Ball and dislocated BOTH knees ... and snapped BOTH patella tendons that hold the knee caps in place. (and when I fell, I chipped a bone in my wrist).

I had to have surgery -- they had to use a cadavor tendon on the left knee. Now have 8-10 inch scars down both knees.

Spent a week in the hospital, then 3 weeks in a rehab facility, then 2+ months in leg braces that went from ankle to hip.

I'm still doing PT a few times a week, and other exercises almost every day ... can go up steps ok, have to be very careful going down steps, can walk up a hill petty well, but still struggle going down.

I'm learning that improving the flexibility of the surrounding muscles is critical for me ... and just also learned that they may need to go back in an clean up some scar tissue to get the knee caps to slide more smoothly.

I've also learned that having functioning knees is pretty critical ... so Good luck.

After living with bad knees for nearly 3 decades, I learned one thing. Do the excercises the doctor tells you to do. That is so critical.

If I take a couple days off ... I regress ... drives me crazy ... btw .... I tried to find a smiley that was relevant for knee pain. This was the closest I could find ....

:rofl:

His knees are clearing killing him ...

Knox NutraJoint Plus Glucosamine Chondroitin & MSM, Maximum Strength Formula

It really made a difference for me

Mine grind when I go downstairs. Hmm.

If the cartilage behind the knee caps wears out. It's bone on bone

Bastard.

I'm sick to my stomach too! My belleh is soooo soft and fleshy lately :puke:

Talk about "activity" in your tummy. Feels like mine just woke up after being dead for 5 weeks.

I started taking probiotic pills about a month ago. I don't know if it's making any difference now, but that first week it felt really weird. Strange tummy noises, and tremendous painful hunger around lunch time, which is strange, because I'm not usually a lunch eater. It was like the bacteria needed to be fed and were letting me know. I've decided that it was a good thing to do. Even if it hasn't made me more healthy, it was good and entertaining. I also just bought these yakult drinks that are supposed to have probiotics in them - I don't know if they're doing anything either, but one of the ingredients is "flavouring" and it's damn tasty.

sorry for being gross, but it seems like my farts are getting stinkier as I'm getting older. I feel like such a geezer.

That one being, your nose. :evilgrin:

Damn thing won't go away.

:mad:

I thought it was arthritis but found out I have no arthritis (good news) but I do have torn knee cartilage. I don't understand. I never played sports and I have never been a runner. I do walk. But I am almost 50 so I guess this is an aging thing.

:(

ovaries or adrenal glands since they both make testosterone. Too much in my case for the last 15 years. Don't know which one the culprit is, though I wouldn't mind doing without the ovaries. Adrenals I need to keep since they make other necessary things.

and lungs.

*cough*hack*cough*

:cry:

RL

So I ain't sayin' nothin'!

Bake

Hurt like a mutha!!!!!

:rofl:

Bake

Your sled (or other sliding device) hit a bump, you went flying and landed right on your tailbone, right?

One of those abominable snow discs. Went off what must have been a ski jump, came right down on the ol' tailbone. I thought I was paralyzed. My son thought I was dead.

I got better ...

:-)

Bake

Only I was the last one on a toboggan. Hurst like hell, doesn't it?

You wanna guess how that affects me?

:P

Everything is starting to droop but my worst body part is my neck.
Whiplash injury that acts up all the time. Ugh. It sucks.

What a pain in the neck! :P

"Gravity"

JOHN MAYER LYRICS

John Mayer - Gravity Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwdMgRf46SU

Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away

Oh Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh twice as much aint twice as good
And can't sustain like a one half could
It's wanting more
That's gonna send me to my knees


Oh gravity, stay the hell away from me!
And gravity has taken better men than me (Now how can that be?)

Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Keep you all where the light is
Just keep us where the light is
Ohh.. where the light is!

all of that part below my scalp

I'm getting it replaced on the 14th of march.

have bad osteoarthritis in my right ankle and the doctor has suggested fusion but I am afraid of ending up worse. I wish you all the best with your surgery I know how depressing it it can be when every step hurts.

I was told to get a fusion at first because they don't like to do total ankle replacements in people under 60. I'm 54. TAR's are tricky and very different than hip or knee replacements.
My ankle was crushed by a horses hoof in 1985 and over the years it became very badly arthritic. I'm to the point now I uses crutches most of the time.
I was supposed to have the TAR a few months ago but Blue Cross gave me shit and the surgery was canceled the day before. My doc had a peer to peer review with them and the appeal was over turned. So friday I will get a chance at being able to walk again.
There is a lot of good advice on the internets about Total Ankle Replacements. A little research about fusions will really turn you off them. I would have had to have the whole ankle fused. That means difficulty walking on uneven ground, uphill, downhill, getting up from the ground, picking things up, climbing stairs, sleeping on your belly, the list goes on. Also you get arthritis in the rest of your foot an a few years. I still ride my horse (not the same one) and I couldn't hold my foot in the stirrup with a fusion.
Yahoo has an ankle replacement group that's helpful. PM me for my doctors name if you want.

From all of those tolls in Delaware!

Ive got a cough. And I have it on good authority that this one is taking most people at least 8 weeks to kick. If only I was a fish with no lungs. drat

Rick Astley.

Everything is fully functional, thank you.

I'm getting wierd lumps above my eyes.

:(

still a little stiff at times. Never was the same after I bent down to pick up a cheque and PULLED the set of muscles from from knee to my thigh (what are they called again? yikes! Quads?) and my knee has never been the same.

It's kind of weird trying to do things like bending down sometimes, or going down stairs, not exactly painful but I can sense some tightness.

:rofl:

Bake

And I kind of miss being able to hear what's going on. And... and...and...what was it we were talking about?

Regards, Mugu

Surgery on monday to repair a torn ACL and damaged miniscus (from a basketball). And the pancreas ain't worked for years.

The pain is so bad I have to do everything from my computer chair (it rolls). I'm going to be having a "discogram" next week. I won't even tell you what they do to you in a discogram, but it has nothing to do with dancing.

I don't know WTF is going on with it. I suppose I should get it looked at. It doesn't bother me unless I kneel. Then YOWZA shooting pain like I have never experienced this side of childbirth. Dang. I hate being old.

makes me say and do stupid things lately

Sprained it pang racquetball yesterday.

It really hurts

:cry:

This makes me really sad.

I currently have some sort of allergy or reaction that i haven't nailed down the cause of yet... and the itch is maddening.

not really bad though; does not hurt to type but I find they tend to freeze if I have to grip anything for any length of time (get your minds out of the gutter :o)

Redstone

I can't get out of a chair now without using a strong support. In the past I've always exercised to keep the muscles around the joint very strong but for more than a year I've been sedentary. That ends tonight, if the STBE brings up the Nordictrak from Boston, as he promised.

which I refuse to refer to as wrinkled. :cry: