At 02:44 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
Then, a friend of hers told her to stir a heaped teaspoon of
powder gelatin into half a glass of orange (or any fruit) juice, and drink
it every morning.
Just thought you might like to know that you can get the gelatin in
capsules so all you have to do is swallow
Forwarded from Helene in Melbourne:
Noelene wrote:
>As soon as I showed a sign of getting arthritis in my
>top finger joints, my DH insisted I have a pinch of
>epsom salts every day - I drink it in my first cup of
>tea (I like my tea sweet) every morning.
My friends'mother, whom I lived with for
Jean Nathan wrote:
This reminded me of my mum. One year when they had spent a long vacation with
me and we had toured around the east coast of the U.S. she asked me what I was
going to do the next year. I said we hadn't decided, but it might be a trip
home to UK or a trip to the Grand Canyon.
Noelene wrote:
It's not as bad as I obviously made it sound. Apart from the times when pain
just arrives (I tend to go to sleep then and it only happens half a dozen
times in a year), most of my pain is
self-inflicted. I know I need to use a bobbin winder and the conseqiences of
not doing so, bu
DH is left-handed, I'm right-handed. For simplicity's sake the mouse is on
the left of the keyboard (I was more able to swap it over then he was), but
it's set up with right-handed buttons. Without realising it, I now find that
I use my left hand on the mouse, but leave my thumb "dangling" and don'
Hello to everybody
I have with great interest been reading the thread about Arthritis in thumbs.
I have Arthrosis in most of my joints - and am regularely tested for
Arthritis.
Therefore I too have lots of problems doing things with my hands and sitting
because of my back
I have found out that
In addition to what I posted yesterday, I contacted Sue directly about Tens
machines. I've also been thinking overnight about what else I do. I've been
doing them for so long that they've become normal.
I have ethafoam tubing over the handles of cutlery - it can be bought in
lengths for cutting, w
At 10:44 AM 7/20/2004, you wrote:
Sue, I sympathise with your mum.
Me, too. I have arthritis pains in my thumbs, off and on. The initial
attack was very painful. I had to stop doing anything that put pressure on
the thumb joints.
That was when I stopped knitting, crocheting, embroidery type
Sue, I sympathise with your mum. I didn't realise that RA doesn't affect the
topmost finger joints, and, what I thought was a flare up in some of them
that would settle, is developing osteoarthritis. I've also been told that I
must come off steroids, which I've been taking for the past 5 years, so
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I haven't kept any of the
messages. My mum has developed arthritis in her thumbs which is stopping her
from safely lifting pans etc and of course means she can't do any craft
work.
She is wearing copper bracelets, but I was wonder if there were any othe
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