For those who were following my previous thread, that pain went on and on for weeks.
If you remember the doctor decided it wasn't Bursitis.
So I decided it was as I first thought, that my hip was 'out'. It just felt like my right leg was shorter than my left. I was walking lopsided and in terrible pain with walking. So I started doing particular bends and stretches. Then one morning a couple of weeks ago, I bent to the left, raising my right arm up and over to the left, stretching my right side, and my hip popped and cracked and it's been fine ever since.
Not only for that but...I didn't 'announce' it on here...my last blood test was pretty bad. My iron in particular was down to 2. (It's meant to be between 10 and 33.) My specialist arranged an iron infusion which I had last Thursday. That has finally kicked in today, so not only am I walking better but I've got a little more energy. Even though my hip was better, I couldn't walk far without having to find a seat. So I will now have to get ou there and start walking again.
I'm also to have an Endoscopy in a couple of weeks to check for Coeliacs(spelling?) Disease. I've been checked for it before, but they want to check again.
Great news Beth. Hope it's good news with your next test for coeliac. But, when my son was having heaps and heaps of tests and they finally said he didn't have coeliac (I still question that) he said, "That's a blow. At least if I'd had coeliac I would have known what was wrong and lived with it. Now I still don't know." If you do have coeliac, life with that is soooo much easier now than it used to be. All the best.
Thank you NeilnRuth. I've had Ulcerative Colitis for 14 years now, that's enough to deal with. I have a friend who has Coeliac, so I know how debilitating it is.
That is really good news. Sometimes I think are bodies tell us how to fix it but I find it strange, I dont listen to my body messages till all else fails. In saying that, I dont think I will be travelling for a couple of weeks....No!! I will have a talk to myself and see if I can do the same as you.
That is really good news. Sometimes I think are bodies tell us how to fix it but I find it strange, I dont listen to my body messages till all else fails. In saying that, I dont think I will be travelling for a couple of weeks....No!! I will have a talk to myself and see if I can do the same as you.
Cheers Colls
Good luck Colls. Today I managed a walk from one end of the local shopping centre to the other. I haven't been able to do that for awhile. I was struggling a bit on the last leg, but chuffed that I'd done it.
I have read this thread with interest as over the last 3 weeks my right hip area has given me grief. It is worst when I get up from sitting and I find now I am limping quite noticbly, and it does get less pain the more I walk, but the initial start is very painful. I have not had it diagnosed as I guess I thought it was just the age thing!!!! I take Glucosamine and fish oil so next time I am at the Doc's I will ask him and maybe there is something more I can do....
You are all a wealth of information, thank you
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I used to take Glucosamine but didn't feel that it was doing anything, but I've kept up the fish oil. It's good for lots of things. I also take Magnesium, Caltrate, and a multi vitamin at the moment. As well as a few medications. And my specialist has put me on Folic Acid. Not permanently, just one bottle. One of my problems is that I have a shrivelled up spleen which can cause all sorts of problems.
Not only for that but...I didn't 'announce' it on here...my last blood test was pretty bad. My iron in particular was down to 2. (It's meant to be between 10 and 33.) My specialist arranged an iron infusion which I had last Thursday. That has finally kicked in today, so not only am I walking better but I've got a little more energy. Even though my hip was better, I couldn't walk far without having to find a seat. So I will now have to get ou there and start walking again.
I'm also to have an Endoscopy in a couple of weeks to check for Coeliacs(spelling?) Disease. I've been checked for it before, but they want to check again.
Very good fix for iron - and many other micro-elements - is a black strap molasses, in the bi carb sods solution in water:
Take a glass of water. Add one flat tea-spoon of bi-carb soda, and poor into that one soup-spoon of Black strap Molasses.It doesn't taste very encouraging - for some people even tastes outright awful - but it really works... They say, good medicine never taste good, though. With time one can use to that taste, and it doesn't bother so much.
The black strap melassis, and any other molasses for that matter, dissolves pretty poorly in the cold water, so it is a good idea to dissolve first the molasses in one or to spoons of hot water, and after dissolved mix it with earlier prepared glass of the water with bi-carb soda solution. Do it and drink two to three times a day, over the period of some three or four weeks. It is impossible not to see remarkable improvement. It is especially beneficial to women, as many loos a lot of iron with their monthly blood lose, etc. It also helps in bettering complexion, and often reduces significantly gray hair, because it provides hair roots, with much needed micro-elements. It is used by many naturalists and naturopath as preventive remedy against cancer, diabetes, etc. It also helps in curing these maladies.
