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--- Heat versus cold?
Hi Andrew,, Some people on use hot. In fact some people find the best help from 15 min of cold and then 15 min of hot. Good luck with it. You know she is really hurting to need to have you there. Try to get X rays for her to see if the hurts are bad enough to warrant seeing a specialist and find out what she did right before this started and it could of been a day or two before and take care of it yourself before you go back home because she will do it again to get things done. Harv "Nzuri" news:cc52ccea.0503130040.239996d3@posting.google.com... > Greetings from southern England, > > Have just found your excellent newsgroup! I'm posting on behalf of my > mum who is - according to her doctor - suffering from a severe > flare-up of arthritis in her back. Like most 78 year olds, it seems, > she has suffered from attacks of arthritis from time to time, but this > is very much more severe than the previous episodes. So much so that > she phoned me at 5.00am last Thursday and asked me to come over - I > live over 100 miles away and she has never done this before and hates > to think that she's causing us any trouble. > > The health service here was excellent. We had her in her doctor's > surgery by 9.00 am and he presribed valium (to help with muscle > spasm), dicloflex/diclopenac as an anit-inflammatory. The episode had > actually started earlier in the week and she had been taking a coedine > based pain killer and paracetamol. > > The is due to see the doctor again on Tuesday, but so far (admittedly > only two days since we saw him) the pain has continued at much the > same levels, although she has been getting more sleep than before > presumably thanks to the drugs. > > My quesion is about the use of heat and or cold to relieve the pain. > Another relative who suffers from arthritis was advised by her doctor > not to use hot pads on arthritis in her hands and to apply cold > instead. My mother has tried this but the pain is so intense that she > has reverted to using hot water bottles and a heated massage pad. > > I would be very grateful for any thoughts on this: particularly on > whether heated pads are likely to exacerbate the condition in the long > term. I've looked around the web and this group and find the odd > reference to this. > > Apologies for the length of this. If I'd had more time it would have > been shorter, as someone once said, and currently I'm doing a bad > impression of a nurse! > > Many thanks in advance for any help you can give me. > > > Andrew
"Harvey R. Stone" news:TRXYd.17110$YD4.3036@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com... > Hi Andrew,, Some people on use hot. In fact some people find the best > help from 15 min of cold and then 15 min of hot. Harv, Very many thanks for getting back to me so quickly, and for your advice. We mentioned an xray to the doc. on Friday but he didn't think it was necessary. I agree with you though, might as well have a look to see if anything is happening. Thanks again! Andrew Related Discussion: Re: Florida mental heath provider pays $5 million fraud settlement (1 posts) Is the Government holding your MONEY? (1 posts) Imflamation and arthritis (4 posts) www.korrekt.com (1 posts) Top Discussions From Our Archives Is the Government holding your MONEY? SAVE up to 80% on Dental, Prescriptions, Vision and Chiropractic Other Discussion Categories Diabetes Symptoms Health Care Policy Health Care Providers HMO Arthritis Symptoms Oops!!! Unexpected Error While Reading the Feed
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