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Hi, I'm Neho2023! Any advice for dealing with sciatic nerve pain?
Hello guys , somone can give me some advice how to deal with Sciatic nerve pain please I'm 20 and dealing with acute pain for at least 5 years .. Today I have a sitting and standing difficulty for like 20 mhn and also I have terrible pain while sleeping . . what is the best treatment for this kind of issue in order to…
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Enough is Enough
After 8 years of having zero mobility because of hyper-extended knee joints and a failed knee replacement, followed by a multitude of linked issues such as rotator cuff shoulders (extremely painful) and suspected polyps (I am still waiting for a hospital report, three weeks after a CT scan) - I now have puffed up ankles,…
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Knee Replacement Recovery
Had a TKR in Feb, followed by a bad fall end of March. Am now trying to recover again. Am unable to walk unaided as my knee collapses without warning. Physio says it’s because the muscle has not rebuilt yet and I shd ‘think in months not weeks re recovery’. Have been doing many reps of the exercises with almost nothing to…
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Diabetes and angina
hi every one as well as my mental illnesses I now have heart trouble and diabetes. It’s literally one thing after another now I’m physically unwell Also .
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Hi, my name is Saireen! How can I get my spine injuries diagnosed?
I suffer from multiple chronic back pains in lumbar from a fall, coccyx from another fall and I felt my mid spine move and bled, and mid thoracic excruciating pain after a car accident. As well as peripheral neuropathy symptoms. Doctors have refused to offer me an alternative MRI scan I wanted the Doughnut MRI scan I would…
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Eye Condition Payment from DWP info
Hello. I just came across an article in the news that stated the DWP would be providing assistance in the form of payment to people with certain eye conditions... both my husband and I have eye conditions. I have astigmatism in both eyes, a lazy eye and my husband is nearsighted. Could someone with more info about this…
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Disability and cancer
Hi everyone I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for me as a wheelchair user recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I'm having further tests. I only know about the one mass at the moment but my first symptoms were swollen lymph glands. I have hospital appointments every day this week and it's taken it's toll on me. My…
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Heart Failure - 12 month wait
My mother-in-law was diagnosed with Heart Failure in March - and has just been chasing up the hospital (she hasn't been contacted or given any updates at all) - she was now told that she will now have a 12 month wait until the next vacancy - she is 84 years old for gods sake !!
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I have spinal stenosis. Being pushed into surgery. Anyone else have experience of this?
I have just been diagnosed as having spinal stenosis in the lumbar area. Being pushed in to surgery. Does anyone have any experience in this area? Thank you
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disc bulge / oa . / fibro . mri
hi . il try keep it short as poss . but basically ive had joint . back . problems for yrs . runs in family . 3 yrs ago i started with really bad leg pain . numbness . tingling . constant aching . all over but mostly thighs . went had all tests . etc . came back fibro . since pushed for mri on lumber spine . to find that it…
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Degenerative Disc Arthritis Facet Joints
I just wanted to ask from others who have this condition if they also have either arthritis of their facet joints, nerve impingement or compression, or radiculopathy? I understand DDD refers to the condition of the actual discs, but do the other conditions result from different stages of decline? Is it at a certain stage…
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Advice about a friend with MS
Hi I hope I can get some advice here from people with more knowledge and experience than myself. My friend is in her early sixties with MS and has taken to her bed. She's sleeping (according to her) 23 and a half hours a day because she says she's happiest when she's unconscious. She's aided in this by a steady intake of…
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Visually impaired and depression
I’ve been visually impaired for nearly a year, I get out and about using a cane, but I get so low as so many people just walk in front of me without seeing my disability and I get so embarrassed as I say in visually impaired and please be careful and give me some space to get around and then I get so many dirty looks and…
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Visual Impaired Members
Hi Everyone, I was wondering if there were any visually impaired members who would like to chat? Thanks, CSn01
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Help for pre-diagnosis autism
hello, I’m pretty sure I’m autistic, I have had the first stage assessment and waiting for the second stage adult assessment. I’m in need of some counselling but there doesn’t seem to be any for people unless they’ve had their diagnosis. I need a counsellor who understands autistic traits. Does anyone know of such a…
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Shoulder op - anyone ?
It looks as if I will have to have an op on my shoulder (s?) - due to having non-improving rotator cuff !!They have to grind bone away, to make the ball joint smoothAnyone had this done ?Was it successful ?I am concerned about such things as "How do I wipe my bum, after the toilet" ?
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Think my crohns is flaring again
I have pretty bad crohns disease (having stoma fitted and mutiple operations) and I'm worried that my crohns is flaring again. I have no appitite and struggling to eat the most simple things. I have only been able to manage a pasty at lunch and thats the only thing I have managed to eat all day. I also feel pretty unwell…
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Discouraged about getting seen.
I am not sure where to post. But I don’t know what to do about this and am wondering if anyone has any advice. I have been seen now by 8 different neurologists. The last, was a Movement Specialist who diagnosed me with FND and is forwarding me on to a Functional Neurologist. But it has been almost 2 months and I STILL have…
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Spinal Stenosis surgery
Hi everyone, I was wondering, has anyone here had surgery for spinal stenosis? How was your experience? Also wondering if anyone has spinal stenosis and adult onset Hydrocephalus? I have both. I was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus in 2016 aged 43 and subsequently have had 5 brain surgeries plus 3 emergency abdominal…
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verbal dyspraxia
My Grandson has been diagnosed with verbal dyspraxia. He is 6 and cant speak in sentences. Will he ever talk properley
