Another year of PMR come and gone, new people arrived, some left. But one thing hasn't changed: the support of like-minded people.
Best wishes to you all!
Same her Eileen let’s eat and drink for one day and try to forget PMR. Hopefully all will be able to delegate the clearing away after Xmas lunch and given a nice cup of tea.
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Bless you Eileen. Thank you for working so hard throughout the year giving so much good advice.
Thanks Eileen. Warmest of wishes to you and your family. Merry Christmas! This is my 4th Christmas with PMR (diagnosed) and I'm pretty sure there are a few more to come. The gift of your advice throughout the years has been so greatly appreciated,.
Are you still in Calgary - looks a trifle chilly there!!!!
Another year with PMR, but I feel so lucky to have found the forum, the guidance this past year unmeasurable, thank you all. Especially you ElaineH thank you for your wisdom. Had another great day skiing yesterday with the children in my Santa suit.
Merry Christmas to all, wishing all a PMR free New Year!
Yes, still in Calgary Eileen. And your right, a week ago it was +10C and we were thinking it would be a green Christmas. Today it's -19C and there's about 20 cm of the white stuff out there! Still better than our Arctic home where it's -37C, -44C with the wind chill!!
We head back to Panama on New Years day and I'm looking forward to getting back to the warmth. I had to accept being in a minor flare a few days ago. Not sure if it was the travel or the cold, or a combination of both, but an added 2 mg has done the trick.
I found the well over 20C drop in temps when we came home from Malta caused a minor niggle or two. Today we had -10C overnight - and up on the mountain it was +5C all night and then the sun shone! I hate think what the snow is like! But on Wednesday and Thursday it may snow - will definitely precipitate further south but will be rain in the valleys. And I'm sure I can feel the incipient change in the weather...
Warmer on the mountain than lower down??? Sounds like you have to deal with lots of fluctuations.
Niggles I can deal with. However, all over muscle stiffness increasing over a week is a bit too much. I felt like I'd been hit by the proverbial truck.
Now it's a question of how long to stay at this level and how to manage tapering back since I'll have two days of travel and a 40 degree, or more, increase in temperature in a weeks time. Not to mention the increase in humidity!
And best festive wishes to you too Eileen; and thank you for all your contributions and support in this forum.
Happy Christmas to you and OH. Thank you for the time you take to answer all our queries and worries - even on Christmas Day! Here’s hoping you improve greatly after all the years you have had PMR and OH looks forward to better health.
Cold air sinks... It's called Foehn, Alberta calls it Chinook. When it blows properly it warms up the narrow valleys too but it is coming from the south this week so is cold here. It's called inversion, for obvious reasons!
Happy Christmas, Eileen. It's a very wet one here and the forecast is for ice overnight as it freezes! It's definitely been a dreich day. I'm going nowhere tomorrow and the family arrive so hoping the roads will be ok. I echo the others sentiments and thank you for your amazing input even when you are on holiday.
Best wishes to both you and your OH. Mine is snoozing already and all is peaceful until he starts snoring.
Thanks to everyone for all the feedback especially Eileen. This forum has been so comforting being able to get great advice that the doctors seem to be unaware of. Merry Christmas to all.
Just off to the pizzeria for Xmas Dinner! We get rain/snow tomorrow for a couple of days. From the south - so the snowline will be highish. As long as we don't get ice like last time! But I have bought chains for shoes now - don't want to go flying again
Enjoy your Christmas Dinner. I wish I had bought something for my shoes. I bought them for others! The ice is hazardous and when I was out on Thursday I could see the evidence on people who had fallen......slings, plasters etc.
Thank you Eileen. best wishes to you and husband for a healthier New Year!
I saw them in Innsbruck last week - and didn't get them! Then it snowed here and I slipped - result one rather black knee But arnica has helped and it doesn't hurt. No plaster cast required!!!!
I had local moon-shaped potato pasta ravioli, red white and green: beetroot. plain and spinach in a ton of butter. Superb!!!!! David had pizza...
That sounds bad. I hope you have done no permanent damage.
I think the shoe chains will be like hens' teeth here at the moment as we had a bad spell of snow and ice.
Your meal sounded delicious. The best part would be no cooking and no cleaning.
Pity we can't sign up one doctor from each Practice who could keep others informed.
My sister seems to have been lucky with hers. First they thought it was sciatica but when two doses of Tramadol did nothing and she remarked that her arms were hurting and she supposed that it was because they were being honorary legs and feeling the strain I and her GP thought the same thing and when ESR came in at 90 I, at least, would have put my house on it. In the meantime, as well as the bloods, the Practice arranged hip x-rays but all well with bones, just normal wear and tear. All this within a week which I thought impressive. Has to wait until Wed. for results of more blood tests... not sure for what as all the usual stuff came back as normal. So that would be three of us in my family; mother had it, too.