hi all, sorry i haven't been on here for around 6 weeks, hope everyone is doing well
i posted this on the same thread as i wanted to let you know how i am doing with the back problem, so we had our weeks holiday in majorca and i was in exactly the same pain when walking that i was feeling a year previous
However on our return i kept my appointment with the head physio at our local hospital and he was so thorough questioned me on allergies, food i ate, my everyday life and couldn't understand the pain i was in with my hips when walking, that was until i told him that i have been using ice packs on my back several times a day for weeks, he looked at me in horror and said that i have arthritis at the bottom of my spine and that the cold was the worst possible thing for it
so on his instruction i have been using heat packs instead and to our amazement my back is about 80 per cent back to normal, i am still surprised when i walk all around the supermarket without pain
i know that there is no cure for arthritis but something so simple has really surprised me and when i think about it, its common sense
On a different note my oh has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes which we are trying to understand at the moment and finding it quite confusing but we will get there kerrie