Dr visit

[Guest guest]

Hey Joi,

Where in Eastern Washington do you live? I live in

north Idaho, near Sandpoint, and if you're anywhere

near Post Falls, ID at all, do I have the " bestest " PT

I could recommend!!

nne

Re: Dr Visit

Oh. Good. Only 2 shots. I don't think that would

damage your bone.

I'm enjoying our winter, although I've gotten really

lazy. The weather here

(Olympia WA) has gone from sunny to rainy, to real

rainy, to snowy, to one

night when I could swear a small tornado hit my house

(we don't have those

big midwestern tornados here, but funnels have been

reported), now today

back to sunny. Unfortunately, being retired, I tend to

go to bed late and

get up late, so I miss half the day when the weather's

good. I'm NOT looking

forward to summer heat. Last May it hit 101 here(!),

and we had several days

in the low 90's. If I'm doing any physical work at

all, it needs to be in

the 60's. You'd think with all the heat I generate

when I do move around,

I'd lose weight ...

Ann

Ann,

In my original post I had stated that x-rays did show

some early stage hip

arthritis. This is only my second cortisone shot for

the bursitis, so not a

lot of shots have been given. Once the hip bursitis

pain had lessened I

noticed the joint/groin area hurting more. The Dr said

that the hip problem

can exacerbate the bursitis in the hip, which it has.

The bursitis was

hurting so much; I hadn't really noticed the joint

pain in my hip as it's

not really terrible at this point. My IT band was

causing some problems, but

I immediately stretched it and that tightening has

gone away. That was the

initial treatment for the hip pain but since it's

still hurting so bad, the

Dr took better x-rays (different Dr too) and it's

easily seen on the x-ray

that the hip joint is quite different than the other

one.

I'm sick of winter.I want an early warm dry spring!!!

Anytime would be good

for me.

Joi

And you may really be onto something w/r/t/ Joi's hip

pain. Good idea --

really jumped out of the box with that one.

I was thinking, since Joi had had a bunch of cortisone

shots for her hip

bursitis, the cortisone may have caused arthritis,

since it does destroy

bone over time. It's another possibility to look into.

An X-ray should show

whether the hip joint has arthritis.

BTW when I was looking into TKR, I was in the

TJR group, and hip

replacement is WAY more successful than knee

replacement -- a lot easier to

do.

How's everyone's winter coming along? Weird?

Ann

[Guest guest]

Hello Sheila

My visit to the Doc this morning did not go as I had hoped. As I hadn't seen

this Doc before, she took quite a time to read all my notes on the computer,

then said that I coud not go on like this.

I explained about Dr P and how I had previously got well when I took T3. She

looked at all my results from Genova and I pointed out about my very low adrenal

results and asked her if something was wrong with my adrenal glands she said she

didn't think so but they will do a pituitary blood test. I got a bit annoyed and

said that's all that ever gets done is blood tests, I wanted some thyroid

hormones. She said that her hands were tied and couldn't offer T3, I then said

what about NDT, again she said her hands were tied, but thought I could try a

baby dose of T4 (25mg)and see a specialist and she recommended someone different

from last time. I piped up about Dr Skinner and said I would like a referral to

his glasgow clinic, she said she would have to 'check' him out first.

I did not want to give her the press release at that stage as I thought slowly

slowly, she will see when she checks hims out.

She was so nice and gave me loads of time, but, as yet it is strictly by the

book.

I remember saying once that I could try a little T4 at bedtime and T3 as

usual. I will give it a try.

I'll also have to do all that I can to support my poor adrenal glands.

I had a reply from Alison Dayani this morning she said the report about Dr S and

the GMC had been emailed to her and that Dr S had been contacted about doing an

interview with the paper...

sorry for the long post

many thanks for all your help.

Irene

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