As I age, more and more body parts complain. Today as I awoke I took inventory of my aches and pains.
My sinuses hurt from broken bones in my face when I was 9. My left wrist aches from early tendonitis. My right hand hurts from carpal tunnel. I had steroid injections into three fingers four days ago for, you guessed it, tendonitis. My back hurts from, um… life. Both knees hurt from loose kneecaps, they tend to slip out of alignment. my feet hurt from plantar fasciitis, and bone spurs.
This will be a good day.
My right pinky toe hurts. I walked into a doorframe a couple of weeks ago, and thought I’d broken said toe, but since the bruising and swelling went down pretty fast and it only hurts a little now, I don’t think I actually broke it.
Yesterday I finally had varicose vein surgery. My left leg had this giant puffy vein running down it. My legs ache a little, but not much. More bothersome is the ace bandages I have to wear for another hour. I’m looking forward to the ‘unveiling’.
My right shoulder hurts just under the shoulder blade - all the time. Has for years. Back in the mid 90s I went to several doctors and they all said that they could not find anything wrong.
I have started a series of stretching routines and am finding that the entire right side of muscles are *significantly *more tight than the left (but getting better.) The right hip hurts some too. As I spend more time stretching, I am finding that I hurt in fewer places or hurt less each month.
I’m 47 and never did stretching until about half a year ago. I am currently considering finding a yoga or Tai Chi class and maybe going to it regularly. (I’m having trouble finding a Tai Chi class in my area. The arthritis foundation is putting on a limited number of classes in Sept, but during the time I’ll be in the UK. I want one that is taught all year anyway.)
My calf muscles hurt. My trainer found out that I wear heels every day and decided to punish me with an exorbitant amount of calf exercises. Now, my legs hurt so I can barely walk (and I’m wearing flat shoes).
Since I started on gluc/chon, fish oil, aspirin, ibuprofen and vitamins, my right great toe (my biggest problem) is no problem. The left knee pain is pretty much non-existent. Left wrist has a twinge, but not the type that gives me problems. May get worse or better, but will likely stay the same. Shouldn’t interfere with this weekend’s golf.
Right now the most annoying pain is at my right shoulderblade, close to the neck/spine. I usually don’t get that type of knot, so I wondered what it was from. Then I realized that the AC had been blowing hard and right on me at work, causing me to type with my shoulders hunched up. Silly me, I complained about my office being too cold, and today I sit here sweating without a whiff of ventilation. . .:rolleyes:
My tailbone. I took a fall on the stairs three weeks ago, and I think I might have cracked it. Doesn’t hurt all the time, but it keeps reminding me that it didn’t like being landed upon.
My right knee is aching something fierce today. It started last night and I thought it was OK when I got up this morning, but once I got up and moving it started to hurt again. I thought it was my arthritis, but there’s a tender spot on the top right side of the knee that might be something muscle related. Or, my kneecap might be slightly off track…
My arms and hands hurt from playing too much Wii at my sister’s last week and overuse of the computer this week.
Nothing in particular is hurting because I’m aching all over. Even my hair is hurting. I woke up yesterday with a bad cold, fever, and spent last night vomiting. Just had a pedialyte popsicle, and it does make me feel a bit less weird.
My back aches where I had the disk surgery in April, and the sciatic pain is bugging me today for some reason - no big worries as I know that the recovery time will be months if not a year or more for the nerve to heal up from being crushed. It just sorta comes and goes. Some days are pain free and other days (like today) are sore.
Medical doctors or chiropractors? IME, MDs are not too good at figuring out musculoskeletal pains, but just about any chiropractor can watch you as you walk into their office before you say anything and say “Your right shoulder hurts?”
My hip–but then again it has only been 14 days since my surgery and it doesn’t hurt that bad considering what I was anticipating.
My wife’s grandfather had a saying ‘don’t judge your day by how you feel when you first wake up–Wait a couple of hours and then judge it’. Makes sense–usually first thing in the morning is NOT the best way to judge how the rest of it will go, often I loosen up and feel great a couple hours after I wake up. Hope that continues as I move into my fifties here.
I went to sports doctors. One operated and he said that he “cleared the area” and the pain would go away. He was wrong. I had one Physical Therapist who I think would have helped, but she left for Israel the week after I found her. She watched me move and then had me lie face down and said it hurts here doesn’ it? And she was right! This was amazing because I wasn’t even aware - at the time - that the muscle she pressed on was hurting. I had a chiropractor, but she adjusted the back some and put on some electrodes - but the pain never went away. In the end, it was just getting too costly to treat non-crippling pain. So I live with it.
Forgot that I originally came to say: I just took a HUGE load of coins to the bank to be sorted and now everything hurts! (122 lbs of coins. In my youth I could have handled that more easily. Sucks getting old!)
When my lateral meniscus was torn, it was tender if you pressed your thumb into the hollow right to the side of the kneecap. The doc pressed there right away as his initial diagnosis.
