LEG PAIN ALMOST INTOLERABLE

[kevieb]

i am no longer on any HC adn the amount of armour i am taking is basically doing nothing --30 mgs.    i wake up quite often with a stabbing pain in my stomach--but that usually goes away pretty quick---but i notice i am waking up feeling like i have started a new exercie program that is leaving my muscles in tremendous pain.  my pain killers are working less and less.  recently, i am gettting pain in my legs in the evenings that is almost unbearable and i can't get rid of it.  tonight i took 2 norco---and it didn't even touch my pain.  i am assumimng thee are both low cortisol symptoms.  i had all my blood work done last monday--hopefully the doc will get the results next week--then we can make an appointment to see him.  has anyone had this horrible leg pain when their AI wasn't being treated?  it is mostly from the knees down.  i don't know what to do to try and reieve it.  has anyone been able to help a problem like this?  i'm feeling pretty desperatate.  if you have any suggestions,please help me by letting me know what has helped!!!

[horselip]

Hawaii- Come on over ladies.
We can have a Pit-i-party Hawaii-style.Folks who live here don't tend to care about that "shallow" kind of stuff anyway. Living aloha :-{)

Horsey

[rumpled]

We can go visit Horselip! I am all for it!!!!
As for the swimsuit, er, yeah, that would not be pretty... between the purple stretch marks, the excess hair... ah... are muumuu's still in style?

[kevieb]

maybe we should take a trip to hawaii---aren't they supposed to be pretty temperate?  how do you look in a swim suit?LOL!!

[rumpled]

I have not heard anything - I just know it effects me quite badly. I have not noticed too much going back high hurting so much but when rain comes, I hurt badly.

They say the same about New England. I have no idea where there is a stable weather area...

[kevieb]

i've heard that it is a pressure change either way--low to high or high to low--just any presure change.  have you heard that low is worse?  do you know why?  of course, i live in idaho where the joke is "if you don't like the weather in idaho, wait 15 minutes and it will change."  basically, we get alot of weather changes.  i need to live somewhere that is more stable--if such a place exists!

[rumpled]

I have taken mobic too! Yeah... I find the weather to be a huge factor - low pressure systems are killer.

[kevieb]

maybe it is weather changes--the arthritis one of my feet is hurting a little and i have a little pain in my fingers.  we're in the midst of Idaho spring---you never know what you will have from one day to the next--or from one part of a day to the next!!

[kevieb]

i'm on a prescription anti-inflammatory.  i take mobic 7.5 mgs twice a day.  my shoulder aches alot, but i didn't wnt to do an MRI yet, so i asked if i could try the anti-inflammatory first.   i think i've been on it for 2 weeks.     I've also been starting to get pain deep inside my hip joint--i don't even know how to describe exactly where it is.  it feels like it is about as far into the center of the joint as it can get--but it doesn't hurt to move my hip---it is just and ache that i can feel deep inside and it seems to ache down my leg for a ways.  i had the same sensation in my knee a week or so ago.  it didn't hurt to move my knee, but it just ached deepinside the joint and for a little way above and below my knee.

my knees used to hurt really bad at night--but it was a different kind of pain.  my hips used to hurt years ago--sometimes sharp pains when i moved them--but then it disappeared for years.  it will occassionally hurt every once in awhile, but it is movement related.

what i am feeling now is not movement related.

[rumpled]

I would say the anti-inflammatory effect that you used to have, it gone. I would guess, and not being sure, that a narcotic would work less effectively than another anti-inflammatory type since that would be the issue.

I would suggest talking to a pharmacist about an OTC anti-inflammatory to see what you can do - as well as search for anti-inflammatory foods etc to see if any of that helps?