Posted on 02/11/2017 3:55:12 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
Cortisone injection
That is what you call getting old? It gets a lot worse than that. Lots worse.
It isn’t a contest but unless you don’t sleep all night, can’t stand to lay on one side or another or both, can’t put on a shirt or coat, can’t reach your head to wash your hair, can’t get up without reaching for something etc. you are nowhere near old feeling. None of those have merited a trip to the doctor after several years of inconvenience.
turmeric
[Tell me about it. I turn 41 tomorrow, and in 4 weeks am going to have to have surgery on an impinged shoulder.]
I’ve had one for 17 years actually probably a lot longer than that.
Had ultra sound heating and then PT exercises for 6 weeks and it alleviated the pain for about 15 years , now returning. He picked up Arthritis in it with a an x-ray.
Just had an MRI and seeing the ortho doc next week.
You having Orthoscopic?
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The only problem I’ve encountered with Tumeric is some bowel irritation.
Way better than a sore joint though!
Despite the breath-taking deterioration of the body, including much impairment, pain and true physical suffering, I am so far loving older age.
True, I have had more significant others die in the past five years than in the previous sixty, bringing much grief, but I feel closer to them now more than ever.
It is so much easier to look upon people with kindness, even myself.
And greater understanding of life is a joyful experience.
Hope you get relief from your pain.
I didn’t pay my last ticket and it just lazily fluttered it’s delicate self away.
Best wishes for you. My mom is close to 80 and will need a hip replacement at some point. And I here ya, getting old sucks.
It will give you relief. IF it doesn’t work or last long it gives your doc a datum to justify a replacement
Would prolozone injections help? It is just ozone, used in soports medicine to help with inflammation, bursitis.
Not really
Man, you people are beat up. Are you all former NFL linemen?
A single shot of steroids isn’t an issue with regards to side effects for most; it’s the longer course oral steroids that cause more ‘side effects’.
Consistent alcohol intake is a great comfort.”
As administered by Dr.Jack Black ?
I’ll be 66 soon. I was in one of those Brazilian steakhouses today.
There were a couple of 20 somethings that really needed to get a room a few tables away.
Meanwhile I was worried about getting home without crapping my pants after eating all that meat.
Just ain’t fair.
I had a cortisone shot recommended for a finger joint that I was having some pain in. I just used whiskey instead.
Yea but dead is as old as you can get. Forever.
I don’t mind dieing, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.(Woody Allen)
Old guys rule! And the shot in my knee worked wonders.
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