Diagnosis: Tendinitis, likely caused by too much driving
Treatment: Prednisone
Future Prevention: Modify driving to reduce use of those tendons or reduce amount of driving ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with an unusual amount of pain in my right big toe. This happens sometimes when the joint needs to crack and usually the pain gets better after that. Not so today. Today the pain spread from the base of my right big toe over to my mid-foot until wearing shoes was unbearable. I put a Flector (anti-inflammatory) patch on it, ( Read more... )

Belly dancing has taught me one very important lesson about my body: if my muscles are tired, my risk of hurting a joint dramatically increases. (This is why it's so hard for me to lose weight, because I have to stop exercising shortly after my muscles get tired. It's like I'm building muscles one cell at a time.) Yesterday, in my rapture at being ( Read more... )

My arthritis started attacking my feet as soon as I learned how to walk. One of my favorite pictures of my Grandpa is of him carrying me on his shoulders when I was about 4 or 5. He's carrying me because my feet are hurting too much for me to walk, even though the distance I needed to walk was, by most standards, negligible. In the picture, he's ( Read more... )

will probably be on the metatarsals on my right foot. Saw my rheumatologist today and got x-rays of my right foot taken:


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