Stiffness in muscles and joints

Steph your right its another reason to celebrate cause i lived in a fog of meds and pain for years i have some memory loss because of it to but im great now and thats all that matters

Cheers Sue

Congratulations Sue, just another reason to celebrate

steph

Applesauce How wonderful to hear where you came from and where you are now dont we wish we had this op done long time ago I was on 300mgs of Kaponol (slow realease morphine) for 8years plus in that time i also took endone and pandeine forte and vallium and anti depressents I decided i wanted to be drug free it took me nearly ayear and ahalf to get off the Morphine that was 2years ago now i hardly take a f panadeine Forte maybe one a week thats all unless i go do d something overboard so now all i take is anti depressents serepax no diabetes meds either im so happy


Cheers Sue

How lucky for you to run into this doc, Sam - she might have saved you a lot of pain!
And apple - I knew you'd not been very mobile before and had improved, but I had no idea to what extent. I think it's wonderful, and good on you for pushing it a little at a time until you got where you are now. Congratulations!
Chris

I was housebound taking the max dose of pandine forte you could take per day mixed in with the max dose of artitis meds you could take a day. I was still laying on a couch more than 22 hours a day and in tears at least 4 of those hours a day in such pain. My life was at the point of me feelin it was not worth living. It hurt to much to even watch tv it was that bad. I had huge doonas on the couch to pad it out and made it like a nest to soften it for my body to try and ease to pain but nothing was working. Fast forward to now. the ONLY time I take pain meds now is to do my walks and that is ONE pandine forte once a day and some days I do not even need that hehehehe I LOVE my sleeve I LOVE my life. I do not need pain meds to even shop now. Sure it was a gradual process and a slow one. I started very slow sitting on a chair and just rottating my ankles for 5 circles in oen direction 5 ups and 5 downs, sound pathetic BUT it worked and I just kept increasing it and started little leg raises then hand raises then little walks around the kitchen. Then I started going to the shops. It was as far as the door as the shops then sit down then to the next seat and sit down hells bells I use to park my ass so often at the shoe section at KMart I swear they where going to name the seat after me but to damn bad it worked now you can not stop me I can walk for upto 8km. The hayfever weather has annoyed me a tad and cut my walks a tad short with a little asthma but nothing to bad. But as far as my joints go this sugery RULES just do it getting the weight off gave me back my mobility.

applesauce

With regard to achy, creakies, I just had my pre-op appt with my sleeve doc's GP and she noticed my uric acid levels were a touch high.
She is the most delightful GP who was 200kg last year and has lost 80kg since being sleeved so she was right on to all kinds of weight related issues as she had experienced them herself. She noticed my uric had been highish over the past 3 lots of blood tests and asked if I was achy and creaky, with occasional odd twitchy muscles, which I was.
She recommended I ask my own GP to put me on allopurinol 500mg. The uric acid condition is called hyperuricaemia. I've yet to google it.

Hi Lavender Rose
Yes, there's definitely hope, and I'm glad that we've been able to share it with you.
Ooh, sorry about the geography - and bummer about going into the cold now. I find autumn and spring the best times, myself - it gets very humid where I live in summer, too.
Best wishes
Chris

Hi Sue
I'm so glad to hear that your pain levels have dropped too. I've still got diabetes, I'm afraid, but hopefully I'll follow in your wonderful footsteps and lose it after a while.
Chris

Hi i also suffer with fibromyalgia and arthritis and ive had 4 back surgerys ive lost 22kgs and it has helped quite a bit for my old joints im still not completely pain free but its alot easier with the weight coming off hardly ever take even a pandeine forte anymore im just hoping as i lose more weight it will be easier still just to be not taking so many meds anymore is fantastic and i dont have diabetes anymore i hear you about the tears not nice hopefully after you have lost some weight after youve been sleeved you will get some relief good luck



Cheers Sue

Damn - I just wrote a long reply to this one and then it disappeared! Let me see if I can remember everything I told you...
Firstly, I also suffer from fibromyalgia and arthritis. It's worst in my spine, and I've often been in tears from the agony - especially overnight.
However since I've lost the weight, my situation has improved so much that I've gone off all the really strong painkillers that I used to be on, and that didn't ever really do the trick, and down to just panadol osteo and the occasional panadeine forte. Oh, and also restavit at night, which seems to make a really big difference (has the same muscle relaxant as is in mersyndol).
I used to have a lot of trouble getting out of chairs - especially if I'd been sitting for any length of time. My hips would hear me asking to move and just respond with "you want me to move? yeah, right!". I used to joke that I needed the WD40 to get them working again! No, this hasn't gone away entirely - but it has improved so much that now it's more like a creaking door than one that has jammed, if you get what I mean.
I hope this has made some sense to you, and is helpful. And I hope that you have the same benefits as I've experienced when you get your sleeve and manage to lose some of the weight.
In the meantime, I'm sorry that you're in so much pain, and hope that you get some relief in the warmer weather.

Chris