HELL ON EARTH

Bones, joints and muscles
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Im sorry to moan again to those who read my posts but what AM I do to???

I used to power walk like mad and do amazing in Aerobics, till I lost balance power walking slightly in January 2016 and im in a living hell ever since

The inital symptom was feeling of intense swelling of the legs and how heavy they became like the weight of an Elephant

Then followed months of tingling burning sensations, popping

Now I have thee most surreal feeling it's as if I've got fluid leaking under my skin, I walk very slow and I can feel various parts of my leg feel wet and like movements of water under the skin

Sometimes it's so painful even from watching TV, it's like a butcher has got a hammer and smashed my legs bones muscles to mincemeat

My legs become locked and so stiff they just don't want to walk and I get like chaffing under my skin off legs as if the bones when walking are rubbing together and causing lots friction

I've been to x Ray neurology and last week osteopath, everything seems to be coming back normal yet I can hardly walk I've asked and given up with my life

Maybe I should be in a wheelchair

I've known Athlets have much bigger injuries and get back to running quicker than my small injury that's put me out for a year

And I sometimes wander if being a cripple is the new me

I can't even walk like a pensioner without these legs in pain but I refuse to get fat and lazy and try and maintain daily the 10 thousand steps a day your meant to do

Im only 38 years but Hiv postive if that's with noting

Thank you to All who read and put up with my tears

I don't want a lot for Christmas just health and the mobility to walk like a normal human being again

Love to All

Kristian xxxxxxx

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Hi Music man, OK so you have HIV do your DR's think this is related to your problem, if not then we can forget it.

Are you trying way to hard to keep fit though because of it, it sounds like you have massive muscle strain in your legs, how many days a week do you rest, how much do you weigh, are you under weight.

Nutrition wise are you eating healthy.

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Just thought do your leg muscle look healthy or are they poor

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Omg this is Me to the T. I'm 4 months out and MY P.T. sent me to see my dr and he's releasing back to work. I'm still using cane. Wtf I said I'm a cook no way can I go back to work 6 hours on cecemet floor as a cook by my self. There is no way. I'm seeing my family dr I need a second option. So what are you going to do. PLEASE keep in touch with me.

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Kristan,

​Although there is a vast age difference between your age and mine, believe it or not, I once used to walk very fast for miles and enjoyed every minute of it.  But my walking fast was very different than the "power walk" you describe being addicted to.  I use the word addicted because a body can get so oxygenated during one of those long power walks that I even read where a "walker" even walked into a running car because he was so engrossed and in a zone and almost in a kind of high. I get that your athletic choice of exercising is fun and you deem it to be necessary.  But when I looked into the the actual power walk, and the placement of your legs, straight and moving ahead quickly with no bent knees, it is ones hips and lower spine that is taking a beating.  It is an unnatural walking stance.  So many years ago  I gave up the power walk and just half ran, half walked at a natural fast  pace. 

​Fast forward to my old age, and I, too, have those warm syrupy feelings that ooze down my legs at times that I can't attribute to knee problems which I have plenty of, but it occurs mostly on my good leg. Where and why is it doing that?  I finally got a lower back Cat Scan in color that showed a horrible mess in the lower discs that were twisted and cemented together and pinching the root nerves that come out of the spine. OK, only an MRI can see the nerves, but I see the places where nerves would have to come out of destroyed bones, so I concluded that the pain and fluid dripping feeling were coming from that area.  Think about it. By power walking for years, you have been twisting your lower spine with that funny walk that was not causing you any trouble at age 18, nor age 28, but you are now 38, and Kristian, maybe you cannot do that any more.

​Take the advice of previous entries and rest, continue your 10,000 steps, but not in the mode of power walking, just a stroll listening to your music until everything quiets down.  Your body is screaming at you to stop and do something different. Of course, I have no medical training, am a pensioner, although in the US, and can't get my head wrapped around the fact that sometimes I am disabled and neither will you. Those of us who have always been active hurt the most because we can't accept the disability.

​Try to force your consultant or ??? to get you to a spinal expert to see what is going on in your spine. The answer to the mystery may be there.

​I felt your hurt in your previous post.  I wish we could help you, but I know that the answer is somewhere and it may start with you. Forcing answers is easier in the US, I think.  but know your rights whatever medical system you are in and force the execution of those rights. Stay strong. And don't forget good nutrition.

​Wishing you the best.  You are not alone, remember that.

 

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I agree with O'Connor, you need someone to look at your back 1st, maybe see a chiropractor. It's a damn good place to start & if you are in the UK quicker than going through your GP for referral. My chiro when I 1st went to her said that if she couldn't help me she would refer me to someone who could. Obviously the knee was out of the equation, already was on the waiting list for TKR. She did however work on my hips & spine which, as a limper, were misaligned, & when my right knee 'went' & wouldnt straighten at all, she massively helped that. At least you may know you are looking in the right direction.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

XX

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I feel better after a few weeks or the legs do, and then I walk at a lot quicker pace for a mile down to chemist and im very red faced which makes me feel fabulous

The endorphins etc then the day after I feel like I've gone back to square one and the legs are popping, and odd pulse pops out

I just give up, if I don't do walking and be this lazy slob im becoming im in danger of stroke, heart disease etc