All my tissue samples came back OK !
Happens to me all the time. Any infection, cold, hay fever, sheer cussedness.What I'm finding more of are those weird old-people things happening. Like the heartburn from bananas and liver spots, and symptoms I've never had before.
Like, last night the side of my neck was tender. It was the little lymph gland on that side that's normally flat and unobtrusive but had become inflamed and swollen.
Looked it up and of course found cancer, meningitis etc but it was most likely from a sore throat or cold.
I took ibuprofen at bedtime and it's nearly gone now. What the actual?
I think you're right there. Sometimes when I'm sitting here my feet go numb and the numbness goes as high as half way up my calf's. I'm also too small for this chair, so my arms are in weird positions when I am typing or using the mouse for my PC. I use the arm of the chair for a mouse pad.Sounds like a circulation thing
Get a small stool to rest your feet on or get a recliner chair that has a foot rest.I think you're right there. Sometimes when I'm sitting here my feet go numb and the numbness goes as high as half way up my calf's. I'm also too small for this chair, so my arms are in weird positions when I am typing or using the mouse for my PC. I use the arm of the chair for a mouse pad.
I was hoping that the circulation thing would end after I quit smoking. Dr said it would take a year or so to go back to normal. I guess it wasn't just the smoking. I need a new chair.
You could try eating more garlic, that can improve circulation, if you dont like garlic you can get garlic capsules at most chemists and health food shops.I think you're right there. Sometimes when I'm sitting here my feet go numb and the numbness goes as high as half way up my calf's. I'm also too small for this chair, so my arms are in weird positions when I am typing or using the mouse for my PC. I use the arm of the chair for a mouse pad.
I was hoping that the circulation thing would end after I quit smoking. Dr said it would take a year or so to go back to normal. I guess it wasn't just the smoking. I need a new chair.
Unless you can sit in that chair with your feet flat on the floor and without the seat's forward edge pressing into the backs of your thighs the seat is too tall for you. As Mytho suggests, you might be able to mitigate this problem by "raising the floor" with a footrest or something similar.I think you're right there. Sometimes when I'm sitting here my feet go numb and the numbness goes as high as half way up my calf's. I'm also too small for this chair ... I need a new chair.
That could well be the cause of the numbness in your lowermost extremities.... I can feel the wooden frame dig into my tail bone and spine. ...
I just turned 62 last Wednesday. But I smoked cigarettes for 54 years and I also had a series of 12 heart attacks in 2014.michael59,
I always start with the question how old are you ?
Numbness covers a lot of territory from bones pressing on nerves to more serious nerve tissue breakdown like Guillain-Barre or stroke.
I feel your pain.I’ve just taken a cup and plate downstairs as I was in the spare bedroom sorting out eBay stuff. I thought I’d wash them and put them away before being told to. I got distracted by my wife on the way to the kitchen and I’ve brought the bloody cup and plate back upstairs!
Is 12 heart attacks in 1 year a record?
Still bearing up quite well here, but last week twisted the muscles in my back (sitting down weeding the garden path, before you ask). Decided that my back was going to be sore whatever I did, so took the dog on a nine mile walk over the Wolds (you may have seen the picture).
Took a packed lunch in my rucksack and, about half way round, sat down for my picnic. Only for my back muscles to go into spasm and prevent me from standing back up again, until I had lain full length on the (wet) grass and sort of wiggled myself around onto all fours to be able to stand. So, if you were walking the Wolds Way on Midsummer Day and saw an elderly lady impersonating a maggot whilst being stared at by a small terrier, it wasn't performance art.
And next time, give me a hand up....
I only laughed because of your description “impersonating a maggot”, and I feel your pain. A couple of months ago I walked to my basement to feed my cats. Nothing unusual. I went to walk back upstairs and my whole lower back spasmed. Knowing full well that if I went to my knees, I wouldn’t be getting up, I climbed the stairs on all fours.Still bearing up quite well here, but last week twisted the muscles in my back (sitting down weeding the garden path, before you ask). Decided that my back was going to be sore whatever I did, so took the dog on a nine mile walk over the Wolds (you may have seen the picture).
Took a packed lunch in my rucksack and, about half way round, sat down for my picnic. Only for my back muscles to go into spasm and prevent me from standing back up again, until I had lain full length on the (wet) grass and sort of wiggled myself around onto all fours to be able to stand. So, if you were walking the Wolds Way on Midsummer Day and saw an elderly lady impersonating a maggot whilst being stared at by a small terrier, it wasn't performance art.
And next time, give me a hand up....
I feel your pain also, when i tweeked my back, even rolling over in bed was a struggle without intense pain, and i agree, mastering the straight back squat is essential when, as you say, everything you touch you seem to drop.I only laughed because of your description “impersonating a maggot”, and I feel your pain. A couple of months ago I walked to my basement to feed my cats. Nothing unusual. I went to walk back upstairs and my whole lower back spasmed. Knowing full well that if I went to my knees, I wouldn’t be getting up, I climbed the stairs on all fours.
It took 6 weeks for it to recover. I worked the whole time because if I was up and moving around, it was way better than if I stayed home and sat. Changing position in bed and getting out of bed were special skills. And of course everything you touch falls to the floor. Luckily my quads are quite strong and so I did a lot of squats during those weeks. I had a massage appt just as things were better, but the therapist had to work on my hips and outer quad muscles (I think that’s what they are called) because they were so tight and over used, they were sore.
You poor thing! Six weeks! Mine was better inside a week fortunately, but yes, turning over in bed hurt, and getting in and out of the car was accompanied by me having to pull one leg in after me.I only laughed because of your description “impersonating a maggot”, and I feel your pain. A couple of months ago I walked to my basement to feed my cats. Nothing unusual. I went to walk back upstairs and my whole lower back spasmed. Knowing full well that if I went to my knees, I wouldn’t be getting up, I climbed the stairs on all fours.
It took 6 weeks for it to recover. I worked the whole time because if I was up and moving around, it was way better than if I stayed home and sat. Changing position in bed and getting out of bed were special skills. And of course everything you touch falls to the floor. Luckily my quads are quite strong and so I did a lot of squats during those weeks. I had a massage appt just as things were better, but the therapist had to work on my hips and outer quad muscles (I think that’s what they are called) because they were so tight and over used, they were sore.
Ooh yes getting into and out of car was especially tricky. Any slight twist to my lower back would cause it to spasm. Even turning to look when backing car up was difficultYou poor thing! Six weeks! Mine was better inside a week fortunately, but yes, turning over in bed hurt, and getting in and out of the car was accompanied by me having to pull one leg in after me.
Ooh yes getting into and out of car was especially tricky. Any slight twist to my lower back would cause it to spasm. Even turning to look when backing car up was difficult
A few years ago I pulled a thigh muscle by turning over in bed! and had big trouble with it for a couple of weeks.You poor thing! Six weeks! Mine was better inside a week fortunately, but yes, turning over in bed hurt, and getting in and out of the car was accompanied by me having to pull one leg in after me.