Re: plantar fasciitis post-op/eyes

[Guest guest]

Hi Joyce,

While all this enthusiastic sporty stuff problems is currently beyond me I

can add a comment on the eyes........smile.

Well before I got my BHR I was having my glasses upgrade and muttered at the

optomistrist that at least the #@$ arthritis couldn't get my eyes given

there were no joint there............... He laughed and said sorry to tell

you but the eyes are indeed affected, dry eye being one of the ways it

does.......... So I went back into my box and realised that that explained

why that was happening..........though since the op I seem to have been too

busy to actually notice it so much.............

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> always were shoes with good arch support, not to go around barefooted or

in

> slippers, etc. Hey, just as an afterthought -- do any of you darlin'

> arthritic hipsters suffer from " dry eyes? " Joyce (Dr. Gross, LHR,

2/2/04)

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Joyce,

While all this enthusiastic sporty stuff problems is currently beyond me I

can add a comment on the eyes........smile.

Well before I got my BHR I was having my glasses upgrade and muttered at the

optomistrist that at least the #@$ arthritis couldn't get my eyes given

there were no joint there............... He laughed and said sorry to tell

you but the eyes are indeed affected, dry eye being one of the ways it

does.......... So I went back into my box and realised that that explained

why that was happening..........though since the op I seem to have been too

busy to actually notice it so much.............

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> always were shoes with good arch support, not to go around barefooted or

in

> slippers, etc. Hey, just as an afterthought -- do any of you darlin'

> arthritic hipsters suffer from " dry eyes? " Joyce (Dr. Gross, LHR,

2/2/04)

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Hi

I am 1 year post op. I have been a contact lense wearer since I was a

teenager and now cannot seem to be fitted properly. My eye doctor said it is

due to

the fact my tear level is low. He suggested putting plugs into the lower

tear ducts to block them. I guess htis avopids the tears from draining out of

the eyes. I am not eally sure . . . but I will say this . . . . . . . . . . I

am not comfortablae in my lenses and maybe this is due to dry eyes!

Alyce

5/23/03 LC2K Kennedy

[Guest guest]

Hi

I am 1 year post op. I have been a contact lense wearer since I was a

teenager and now cannot seem to be fitted properly. My eye doctor said it is

due to

the fact my tear level is low. He suggested putting plugs into the lower

tear ducts to block them. I guess htis avopids the tears from draining out of

the eyes. I am not eally sure . . . but I will say this . . . . . . . . . . I

am not comfortablae in my lenses and maybe this is due to dry eyes!

Alyce

5/23/03 LC2K Kennedy

[Guest guest]

It's interesting, what you wrote. I went on-line yesterday and did some

searching for " dry eyes & arthritis. " There is a definite link, but all of

the articles I read talked about rheumatoid and not osteoarthritis. I just

poured myself a cup of coffee and then remembered that several years ago,

some folks I know stopped drinking coffee because, they said, it

contributes to sore muscles & joints. Hmmmm..... I also just remembered

that I had been prescribed a drug for high cholesterol -- and had been

taking it for about 3-4 months -- when the pain in my left leg/hip really

rachetted up. I researched the drug (can't remember its name, but it's a

common one) and found that muscle " weakness " can be one of the side

effects. I immediately stopped the drug. But -- I do know that part of

the protocol for taking that drug (Lipitor?) is to have one's liver enzymes

routinely checked. What part, if any, did that play? I had bone-on-bone

OA (with cysts) in my left hip -- and my right hip is totally fine. My

lower back has some OA -- and I know that I've abused it over the years. I

LOVE stories about folks like your father. I think that these conditions

are not really a " normal " part of aging -- at least I have every intention

of living a long life and staying active until the end. Anyway -- I wonder

what supplements, what habits, what diet we can use in order to

prevent/slow down the development of OA. In other words: are we just

" fated " to have OA or are there things we should know to do/not do that

would prevent it? Fluids in the body seems like a thread to pull on....

Joyce (Dr Gross, LHR, 2/2/04)

sungold518@...

> [Original Message]

>

> To: sungold518@...>

> Date: 7/1/2004 4:04:48 AM

> Subject: Re: plantar fasciitis post-op/eyes

>

> Hi Joyce,

>

> Now the optometrist did explain but I have forgotten........no doubt a web

> site will explain.......... But the more I understand about arthritis the

> more it appears to be systemic in nature and interconnected back to

> liver/stomach functions. The researchers are busy isolating enzymes and

> genes etc that they 'suspect' play a role in various kinds of arthritis so

> that suggests 'chemistry'.

>

> In my own body it simply started out occuring in damaged joints and that

was

> very young really as I seem to remember it being talked about when I was

but

> 13......... after my first encounter with osteomylitis had them put me in

a

> body plaster....... i.e. the hip joint didn't take kindly to being locked

up

> for a couple of months.......... After that it was simply a matter of time

> until many of the body joints knocked about from the fusion of the same

hip

> 5 years later, developed arthritis.

>

> Now I read where it says that a joint must be rotated well within its

> movement and used so as to keep cartilege bathed in synovial fluid, the

> tears of a joint if you will............that process being imperitive to

> keeping the cartilage healthy.......... but I think there is more going

on

> as well and any abnormal wear no matter how trival seems to invite damage

to

> the cartilage in some of us and as soon as the cartilage is damaged

various

> things happen - arthritis being one, cysts etc being others...........And

> something about ones liver functions, enzymes and genes set up the proness

> to it being arthritis. When writing this I start to wonder about the

bodies

> ability to produce this necessary lubrication and whether arthritis simply

> affects that too or a genetic predisposition via the liver and enzymes

> causes it to show up as something labelled arthritis.

>

> And some people no matter how much they use joints don't seem to be

affected

> ............ I have a father who is 87 - he has farmed all his life - is

> still, which is pretty amazing at 87 ............ he has rarely been ill

his

> whole life and occasionally thinks he is very hard done by because his

> shoulder 'gives him trouble'.......... That was probably the result of

using

> an axe to cut down several hundred acres of trees in his 20's........... I

> obviously didn't inherit whatever genes gave him that joint endurance.

>

> Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

>

>

> > Hi, Edith, YES! I'm so glad you wrote about your dry eyes. I had the

> > same experience. Going to the optometrist because of blurred vision

after

> > reading for a while at night. And my eyes were so flippin' dry... I

> > remember glancing at a pamphlet in his office (this was 15 years ago)

that

> > linked dry eyes with arthritis. I picked it up because of the title

(Dry

> > Eyes) and remember having a bit of a startle when I read about

arthritis.

> > As far as I knew, I had no arthritis at that point. Or did I?? What do

> > you think it means -- this connection. Lack of " fluid " in the eyes and

> > loss of cartilage? I wonder if anyone has investigated this. Does it

> mean

> > that arthritis is systemic? That there is something about our body

> > chemistry that causes arthritis? I just wonder.... Thanks for writing

> > about this. Joyce (Dr. Gross, LHR, 2/2/04)

[Guest guest]

There are many supplements that help with arthritis: MSM(organic sulfur)

and glucosamine being the 2 most important ones in my mind. Also essential

fatty acids are important. Our modern diets are often deficient in sulfur;

the joints of people with arthritis have been shown in studies to be lower

in sulfur compounds which are major components of connective and joint

tissues. (not to be confused with sulfa in drugs)

Candace C+ Vail 12/02

> Anyway -- I wonder what supplements, what habits, what diet we can use in

>order to prevent/slow down the development of OA. In other words: are we just

> " fated " to have OA or are there things we should know to do/not do that

>would prevent it? Fluids in the body seems like a thread to pull on....

> Joyce (Dr Gross, LHR, 2/2/04)