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[Jemima]

Hi everyone...i havent been on here for months...and yes, like a very bad friend, i only turn up when i need you 

i distinctly remember the first time i saw this post at the top, thinking 'joint aches and pains?' whats that got to do with it? and passing this thread by as at that time, around a year or two ago, i had no problems like that at all..but now......things have changed....

in about july i noticed my right shoulder felt stiff and pinged a bit every now and then..i had been diy-ing and thought no more of it, but its continued to get stiffer, and stiffer until now when i cant even put my right hand on my hip, let alone get it round my back..i cant stretch it straight upwards either...

then the hip pain started...

in my right side again, it feels exactly like m shoulder does....stiff, my muscles cramp very easily if i move suddenly and, dont laugh, but i cant get my leg over at the moment!! no not in that way, but literally! my right leg just wont cross over my left! it just gets stuck..thats the only way i can describe it really.

they took xrays and said its not arthritis.

they havent said what it IS THO! i know what it isnt and that made me happy for a while..now im under going physio and my go thinks this will 'resolve' itself.....

but i reemembered this site, and this thread i hadnt read and i thought

Eeeeekkkkkkkkkkkk!!

what if this is here to stay? 

woe is me

Jem xxx

[sandi]

Hi

I have posted a few times about my chronic pain, and I recently had my vitamin D levels checked, and they are down to 44 (normal levels 70-200), last reading a couple of years ago were 55.  I have upped my vit D supplement and there is a definite reduction in my pain.  The other thing I have done after my son suggested I try a herbal anti inflammatory, is to take Turmeric root (grated into my flax, linseed mix which I take for my bowels!), and it seems to be lessening the pain.  Food for thought!!

[purplenanny]

Hi Sandi
I went to my gp with chronic shin/knee pain and the tests showed my vitamin d levels were very low. He has put me on a course of very high vit d3 for 4 months and then will do another test. I am amazed at the difference it has made to the pain.
I like the idea of the herbal anti inflammatory. I am not allowed to take iboprufen due to problems with my kidneys. I assume tumeric root will be ok, so thanks for that

[catweazle]

I've just noticed my right shoulder pain that I've had for yonks has eased a LOT. What am I doing differently? Using my new ipad mini instead of my laptop. Must be a connection! 

Catweazle x

[Taz2]

My shoulder pain and stiffness was all down to my computer chair. I only found that out when it broke and I had to temporarily use a dining room chair instead. No more pain and stiffness and no more "proper" computer chair for me 

Taz x

[pixie]

I've been suffering with neck, shoulder and pain in the left wrist and also right back pain.  It feels worse when I am in bed and not doing anything!  I do have mild arthritis of the hinge joint in the collar/shoulder and chronic bursitis. Apart from a steroid injection, not a lot they can do, and don't fancy that. The physio gave me exercises to do. I will be post menopausal at the end of January! I have noticed that my neck pain has got more noticeable. The  However, when I had an X-ray, they couldn't see anything detrimental apart from a possible old whiplash injury.  The pain in the neck is down both sides, so possibly muscular. The chiropractor said I had very tight trigger points. I work hard. I haven't had a weeks holiday since the summer, so I have all week off at Christmas and 2 weeks off in January, when going abroad on holiday. Hopefully that will make it less. I think I'll probably come off the duloxetine too as it doesn't seem to be doing much, except making me constipated!  Going to start a pilates or swimming in the new year and try to lose half a stone in weight, with this alternative fasting, therefore less stress on joints!

[Bette]

Sorry if I've mentioned this before, pixie but have you considered Alexander Technique?  My chiro was very impressed at the effect it had when I was going to him for sciatica.
Bette x

[pixie]

Thanks Bette, I will consider it, if things haven't improved after my holidays,  I remember I have dreadful backache at this time of the year.  Its probably a combination of the cold weather and this time of year! X

[kes]

Hi Sandi
I went to my gp with chronic shin/knee pain and the tests showed my vitamin d levels were very low. He has put me on a course of very high vit d3 for 4 months and then will do another test. I am amazed at the difference it has made to the pain.

I have had chronic knee pain in one knee for a few years, but have never heard of the vit D connection before.  I will try this, thanks!  Apparently it was on the radio this morning (so it MUST be true - lol) that most of us are deficient in vit D.

[flushtered]

Glad to read about this as I've had painful knee for weeks now and it's really bad today.  I've hobbled through everything I've done and getting out of passenger seat in car and coming down the stairs in house has been excruciating.  I have been taking multivitamin with cod liver oil in it, but will look for some vit D3.

[flushtered]

My knee got increasingly worse last night, could hardly get upstairs to bed.  I put deep heat on it and was amazed that it felt much better when I woke and went to toilet, but it's getting stiff and sore again now.  Don't know if arthritis or not, didn't expect the deep heat to help if it was.  Can anyone tell me if they think this is peri-meno?  If it is, I deffo need to go for hrt, can't put up with it if I don't have to.

[Taz2]

I wouldn't think that this is peri-meno just me - not if it is only one knee. General aches and pains can be but I would think you have done something to it to inflame it in some way. It may be something as simple as walking in a different pair of shoes.  Any help? http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/knee-pain/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Taz x

[flushtered]

I've not had different shoes on Taz, but thanks for the link - I'll wait and see if it gets better after trying anti-inflamatories.  I have had a few other aches and the other knee is a wee bit sore, but not as bad.

[lesley998]

My sudden joint aches and pains were the reason I came to this site in the first place.  I was unaware of this being a symptom of peri/meno until I woke up one morning with a simple sore left arm and hip. ...a situation which has now developed eight months later into bilateral frozen shoulder (such an innocuous little name for such a horribly painful condition)  and acute tendonitis in my left hip and knee.  I'm told its all to do with estrogen fluctuations, as estrogen is the WD40 of the body and without it (or too much of it) our connective tissue can go a bit wonky.   HRT did help, although it will never cure frozen shoulder once it has set in..only time will do that.  But I do feel more 'oiled' and less like a 90 year old!

[lel123]

Hi
I have been suffering with severe neck and shoulder pain for the last 4 or 5 months, Ive been for lots of massages, which are lovely at the time but provide very short term relief, after a couple of days I am back to normal. I was wondering what on earth has changed in my life to make me suddenly be in so much pain, and then during the night I had a light bulb moment, of course, the menopause! Thats whats changed in my life. I have not had a period for one year now, and apart from the hot flushes, and sleeplessness I was coping quite well, but these pains in my neck and shoulder are driving me mad, they are so sore when I am in bed, they are causing migraines during the day, Im in a bit of a mess, so I am off to the docs, and hope that he/she will be able to help me out.
If I get a miraclulious cure I shall be back to spread the word!
Lesley
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