Here is a little background! I have 5 slipped discs – each have their own problem but here are the main things….I have arthritis in 4 of them, 1 of them has an annular tear plus I have mild scoliosis. My primary care physician had me on Lortab 7.5mg 2x’s / day – which is only helping some but could use better relief obviously. I was sent to a pain management specialist and had my appointment today where I had filled the new patient paperwork, etc.

The PA came back and examined me and went over my paperwork doing the usual routine then the Dr. came in. We discussed my problems, treatments such as epidural injections, physical therapy and medications. He had stated that I would need to submit a urine specimen before he could start me on any medication which was completely fine. When we’re finished talking, he leaves and a Nurse comes in, gives me the cup and shows me where the bathroom is, I get it taken care of, give it to the Nurse and go back to the room. The PA came in with the Physical Therapy form to take to any place

I’m 17, I am not very active but I would consider myself active as I do walk a total of a mile everyday to and from school. I do weightlifting every other day and other exercises. Last week, my friends and I were trying to create new dance moves and the ones I performed put a lot of stress on my knees. On Monday when I started added squats to my every other day activities, I noticed that I heard some clicking noises coming from my right knee. I do not have any swelling, pain, I can put weight on one leg just fine, the clicking noises only occur when I try to squat on my knee.

When I put my hand on my knee and raise my knee I can feel that something is being slightly pulled? or maybe thats more clicking.

I asked a few people for their opinion on my situation,

-One Biology teacher said I have a early symptom of Arthritis. However he was busy and all I asked him was “Why do I have popping sounds in my knee?” my friend said I over exaggerated the question a lot to him and I feel so to.
-One AP teacher said I have damaged my cartilage but it’s not a sign of arthritis and it’s easily fixed with exercises with the knee.
-One friend said the fact that I don’t drink milk and exercise my knee in general because I don’t makes it so my knee is weak and dancing last week put alot of strain, which I have to agree the dancing was very strainful as it involved a series of stomping on the floor for 3minutes.
-Another friend said I’m overworrying too much and it’s just a minor easily fixable injury caused by too much strain and can be fixed by consuming more calcium and doing exercise.

I’m not too sure what to believe right now as many people are giving me different stories. I might just go get a x-ray check? Or I might be wasting my time and really am overworrying too much on this.

Any suggestions or thoughts?
It doesn’t interfere me really, it’s just like I guess when I first heard it, a bit scary I thought my bones were going to break. Later it becomes nothing really, I only hear some clicking sounds whenever I do squats.

Is it safe to exercise like this?

I have been tested and probed and run through the mill can anyone help me. I tested positive to HLA-B27 and my arthritis doctor said i had ankylosing spondylitis and put me on medication for this. I have had iritis 3 times in my eyes and now have a small glaucoma forming due to this. I have days were i can hardly stand let alone walk. I have gianed weight due to not being able to do normal things. My insurance changed about 1 month ago and had to go to piittsburgh due to my doctor does not take my insurance. the guy in pitt said i have fibromyalgia, spondylitis arthritis, osteoporsis, and IBS. Which one is right I have searched the internet on both and some things fit with one and not the other and vice versa. The doctor down in pitt can not explain my iritis which is not a symptom of fibromyalgia. I can not work due to me not knowing what days are good and what are bad I have filed for disability but have had to appeal because of my age–36. can anyone help me figure this out
tiredness, stiffness in the morning, RLS, depression, anxity, IBS, hip pain, low back pain, muscle spasim in back hard to breathe sometimes, weight gain, sometimes limited ROM, iritis, joint swelling in hands and feet, feet hurt at night– toes does that help

I needs someones help badly! so my mom was diagnosed with arthritis… we are not sure what type of arthritis at the moment. Her symptoms are pain on her arms and hands a couple of days her hands swelled up and got numb. She hasn’t been to the hospital in the US because she has not worked in 2 years and she has no health insurance. She is legal in the state, has been for years. I keep asking her to go to the hospital and ill try to pay for it, but she refuses. She is one month away from getting health insurance at her new job but lately her arthritis has gotten worse. She can’t sleep, nore drive her car without causing her pain. I don’t know what to do! can someone find some kind of information behind this? also if you happen to live in Arizona or California and know of any specialist on arthritis please let me know!

Ok so my mom is in her late 40’s. She is in good health, besides her slight high blood pressure and seasonal allergies. Out of nowhere she started getting really bad joint pain in her knees.

She describes it as a pulling and sometimes a little cracking sensation in her knees, the pain travels up and down the back of her leg. Today a wierd symptom emerged, she had joint pain in her toes and feet.

She is pretty active normally, I can’t think of anything that could have caused this that was in her control.

Does anyone have ideas of diseases or links to this type of pain? I read something about Crohns disease…idk she thinks it might be early arthritis, but I argued that it wouldn’t feel like how she describes because my grandmother has osteo arthritis.

She is currently changing her primary care doctor after a terrible experience with her current one. Until then can someone tell me some common treatments that can be done at home for the pain in her legs?

Thanks!

Can anyone tell me if what I have is symptoms of fibromyalgia or arthritis or something. I had a fractured rib last year from an auto accident and I am still suffering from nerve pain in that spot that won’t go away. I go to pain management for it. Somedays my whole body hurts or aches. Like right now. My muscles will ache like I’ve done something to pull them but I haven’t. I have soreness around my sides, in my back. I just think there’s something else going on with my body. Plus I’m so tired all the time that I can barely even function throughout a day without taking a nap. I’m only 38 years old and that doesn’t seem normal. Please someone tell me what you think it could be.
Also when I wake up in the morning, my legs hurt and feet are sore.

My 14yr old cat has had episodes of mobility problems for the past few years, the vet tells me its just arthritis. However I live in a country where the vets are only used to treating horses, so I’m not too confident, and I dont have any alternative vets to consult, so PLEASE help!
In the latest episode, she has had 1 dose of a long acting steroid (depo?) each month for 3 months. I’ve had all the blood tests, and everything is fine, I had xrays done, initally they told me she had a broken hip, but apprenetly it turned out that its a normal feature in an Xray of a cat if the cat is not positoned just right…
Now for the last two days she has started walking diagonally rather than staright and she seems to twist her body more when she walks. She’s also had her first ever ear problems recently, I know this can affect balence, I’m just stuck with not knowing what to do…
Can someone please give me some advice, I hate to see her suffer! I just wish I could get her to a vet that could

In the eighteen years of my existence I have lived among the ill, the disabled, and the unfortunate. I, personally, am a part of the disabled and have faced many challenges in my life. From the day of my diagnosis with Systemic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic JRA, I was told that I will never be able to succeed in life as this condition will hold me back, to a point where I can never function like a normal person. My goal was to prove this statement wrong. At the diagnosis of my condition I had to start methotrexate, chemotherapy, this challenged my life with uncontrollable bouts of sickness. My first year back to school with this disease, I missed sixty-three days of school and from that I knew my road in life would no longer be simple, but a constant struggle between balancing school, work, and my sickness. With my hopes dwindling, that I would never be able to function as a normal person, I was shown a summer camp with kids just like me with the same diseases and treatments. I attended this camp and took classes to deal with my arthritis in numerous ways to reduce the struggles upon my life, which resulted in me being able to stop all chemotherapy treatments as I took control of my life. This camp was a very influential part of my life as methods to deal with my illness are continuously used by me. On one of my later in life volunteer experiences, I volunteered at an elderly home. I entered the volunteer work just looking to complete volunteer credits and be done with such a program, but this home changed my life for all the days in my life to come. In that elderly home I was able to connect with people of conditions similar to mine as that of the summer camp. I showed them the same tricks that I was shown in my camp to reduce strain upon one’s joints, to increase motion in the afflicted joints, and methods to reduce pain and suffering of one’s self. After about a week all the seniors had gained new life and appeared to have washed away the sands of time from themselves. I enjoyed helping these elderly people and I feel I made a difference in their lives. On one day of work it was family day. It brought tears to my eyes when I saw grandparents running and playing with their grandchildren, something they had never been able to do before. This course of volunteer work was so influential upon me I continued to help people through my life and continue to this day.
I, to this very day, have had to deal with the challenges of life plus my condition. I was told that with my condition I would never be able to function like a normal person and I set out to prove them wrong. I believe I did what I said I would do. My personal gain from this life experience which I will grow with is that I have an absolute love of helping others. From this time I have decided that to be happy in life and to continue to endure happiness I need to be upon the end of giving help to others. So it would be in my benefit if I could be a doctor of any sort. I would be able to display my need to help others in way of challenging myself and proving that I can be normal by taking upon one of the hardest challenge of life, becoming a doctor that would benefit not only patients but in return myself.

anything to help at all. most “legit” help is the best answer

In the eighteen years of my existence I have lived among the ill, the disabled, and the unfortunate. I, personally, am a part of the disabled and have faced many challenges in my life. From the day of my diagnosis with Systemic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic JRA, I was told that I will never be able to succeed in life as this condition will hold me back, to a point where I can never function like a normal person. My goal was to prove this statement wrong. At the diagnosis of my condition I had to start methotrexate, chemotherapy, this challenged my life with uncontrollable bouts of sickness. My first year back to school with this disease, I missed sixty-three days of school and from that I knew my road in life would no longer be simple, but a constant struggle between balancing school, work, and my sickness. With my hopes dwindling, that I would never be able to function as a normal person, I was shown a summer camp with kids just like me with the same diseases and treatments. I attended this camp and took classes to deal with my arthritis in numerous ways to reduce the struggles upon my life, which resulted in me being able to stop all chemotherapy treatments as I took control of my life. This camp was a very influential part of my life as methods to deal with my illness are continuously used by me. On one of my later in life volunteer experiences, I volunteered at an elderly home. I entered the volunteer work just looking to complete volunteer credits and be done with such a program, but this home changed my life for all the days in my life to come. In that elderly home I was able to connect with people of conditions similar to mine as that of the summer camp. I showed them the same tricks that I was shown in my camp to reduce strain upon one’s joints, to increase motion in the afflicted joints, and methods to reduce pain and suffering of one’s self. After about a week all the seniors had gained new life and appeared to have washed away the sands of time from themselves. I enjoyed helping these elderly people and I feel I made a difference in their lives. On one day of work it was family day. It brought tears to my eyes when I saw grandparents running and playing with their grandchildren, something they had never been able to do before. This course of volunteer work was so influential upon me I continued to help people through my life and continue to this day.
I, to this very day, have had to deal with the challenges of life plus my condition. I was told that with my condition I would never be able to function like a normal person and I set out to prove them wrong. I believe I did what I said I would do. My personal gain from this life experience which I will grow with is that I have an absolute love of helping others. From this time I have decided that to be happy in life and to continue to endure happiness I need to be upon the end of giving help to others. So it would be in my benefit if I could be a doctor of any sort. I would be able to display my need to help others in way of challenging myself and proving that I can be normal by taking upon one of the hardest challenge of life, becoming a doctor that would benefit not only patients but in return myself.

anything to help at all. most “legit” help is the best answer

Ok my dog is thirteen and has arthritis. She is always chewing herself because it itches. So today while I was getting her water I saw something strange. Right where her tail meets her body it was red and bleeding some. I dont need to take her to the vet. How do I help her and can I help her?