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 | Subject: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:57 am | |
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Posts : 4525 Join date : 2014-09-24 Location : Burntwood in Staffordshie, ENGLAND
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:05 am | |
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Posts : 4525 Join date : 2014-09-24 Location : Burntwood in Staffordshie, ENGLAND
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:10 am | |
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 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:28 am | |
| that's a vast improvement Andsome, is she still in pain as much? |
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Posts : 4525 Join date : 2014-09-24 Location : Burntwood in Staffordshie, ENGLAND
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:58 am | |
| She no longer gets much pain now, but obviously has to be very careful The surgeon removed her knuckles and replaced them with plastic ones, about five years ago. Since them there has been some slight deterioration and slight distortion is re-occurring, but nothing like before the operations. The left hand was done several months after the right, to give her time to regain some strength. She dare not punch me now, so she just moans at me.  ___________________________________________________ Gustav Mahler is the finest composer who ever lived.  |
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sags Ex-member


Posts : 1035 Join date : 2014-09-24 Location : Pork Chop Hill
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 4:38 pm | |
| Wow , that's incredible! I'm going to sound thick but I never knew they could do things like that andsome. Your wife must have suffered horribly before ... I'm thinking of the inability and the frustration at the inability to do the most basic everyday things like gripping and holding things .... never mind the pain. She must have felt like she'd got her life back and her independence. I can't imagine how miserable she must have felt. ps. She doesn't need to punch you ...  couldn't she just trip you up? |
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 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:00 pm | |
| What's been done there is fantastic... Thanks for showing us andsome. |
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malcolm Moderator


Posts : 3364 Join date : 2014-09-23 Age : 73 Location : Coppull, Lancashire
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:12 pm | |
| Is it Osteo or Rheumatoid andsome ? |
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 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:43 pm | |
| Such a shame all your wife went through before her surgery andsome, how marvellous though what has been done since. |
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Posts : 4525 Join date : 2014-09-24 Location : Burntwood in Staffordshie, ENGLAND
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:30 am | |
| - malcolm wrote:
- Is it Osteo or Rheumatoid andsome ?
It's Rheumatoid. She has negligible pain in her hands now, but her ankles are painful, and she is now developing osteoporosis in her back, but the specialist says that he can help her. The arthritis itself is no longer anywhere near as bad since she has been on a drug called Humera. It is an anti TNF drug. I have to give her an injection once every two weeks. Thank goodness for our much maligned NHS, the treatment costs £10,000 per annum. http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arthritis-information/arthritis-today-magazine/150-autumn-2010/success-of-anti-tnf.aspx ___________________________________________________ Gustav Mahler is the finest composer who ever lived.  |
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malcolm Moderator


Posts : 3364 Join date : 2014-09-23 Age : 73 Location : Coppull, Lancashire
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:36 am | |
| That's brilliant andsome I have friends with Rheumatoid Arthritis and I know what pain and discomfort they go through. I'm glad your wife is getting the care she needs  |
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meerkat12 V.I.P Member


Posts : 2406 Join date : 2014-10-05 Location : South east England
 | Subject: Re: This is what really bad arthritis looks like Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:52 pm | |
| Wow your wife's hands looked so painful, and what a fantastic job they have done, I had never heard Of that operation before. I am so glad for her. |
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