I have been noticing more and more a pain in the bottom right side of my right knee. I am not sure when this started, I think some time ago, but it has started to concern me a little because it not only has not gone away, but it seems to be getting worse and spreading.

When it is cold out or muggy it hurts the worst but it is very painful even when the weather is good. My symptoms are; it hurts very badly to walk, I get a sharp pain whenever I do, especially for long periods of time/distances, when I DO walk, it gets to the point where I can no longer bend it. It used to go away (and be able to bend) after I got home and either slept for a while or remained sedentary for a while, but now, no matter what I do or how long I remain sedentary, the pain does not go away (it DOES lessen, but not by much) and know it seems to be spreading. My right hip and thigh are becoming more and more sore and tender and it hurts to walk even more because of it.

Now, I KNOW this will make me seem paranoid for saying…but I thought it might be arthritis, but the symptoms I am showing match up with not ONLY arthritis but wth bone cancer as well. The reason I mention the bone cancer is because cancer is quite prevalent in my family and I have already had some trouble with my bones before (I don’t remember the medical jargon or the fancy termanology, but the end result was I shrank 2 or 3 inches)

Can I really have arthritis at 22!?
Any suggestions on what it might be or what I should do?

I have joint pain, in my knees, hips and shoulders mostly. All the symptoms resemble arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome. I’ve already gone to the rheumatologist and he can’t find anything wrong with me when he did blood tests except low vitamin D and low white blood cells. All he told me to do was to “take as much Advil as you want because your young” and vitamin D supplements and exercise, which is not working. Also, it’s very hard to get an appointment with him. There’s a chiropractor down the street from me, and you don’t need a referral. Do you think a chiropractor could help me with this unexplainable joint pain at all?

I have an approximately 15 year old border collie mix. At her age every day is a gift. Except for deafness and arthritis, she has been very healthy. I just discovered a hard lump, about the size of a quarter, on her chest. She’s due for her an annual vet visit in 5 weeks. Should I make it sooner? How much more worried should I be.

So I personally really don’t like doing house chores. If the room is really dusty and dirty, I’ll clean it up myself, just like the time I went away from home to study college and rented an apartment.

But the thing is, ever since I graduated college and moved back to my house and live with my parents, my mom just starts nagging me about not doing house chores for her. She has to clean STH every week, whether it is the floor, the kitchen, the toilet, whatsoever. She has to clean something in order to make peace with herself. And today, just now, she just started to say “Oh you never do any house chores for me”. I was like. WTF? And she said I should at least clean my room a little bit. And I was like… Okay we just cleaned our room like not 2 weeks ago..

So the screaming and yelling at one another began and now I just gave her the silent treatment. My room is not even dusty at all for all I know. But she just has this OCD to clean everything, and I am so sick of it. Not to mention she already gets rheumatoid arthritis (ra) that she always complains about her shoulder pain, back pain, and the pain from all over the body. So I am really so upset because she WANTS to clean the house, but then she will also complain about the pains she gets from cleaning the house, and then scolds me because I didn’t do any for her.

What should I do? Should I just ignore her and then go out to let her do all the work? Because apparently telling her not to do the house chores every week is not gonna help. And even if I help her, she will need me to do it for her next week, only 7 days apart. And seriously I really don’t want to be like another OCD of cleaning.

The house is just fine. It’s not even always dusty. And no one in the family has allergic reaction, so a little bit of dust isn’t gonna kill us all. But I am just so out of options of knowing what I should do about this situation.

Help.
oh sorry for forgetting to mention one very important thing:

we are asians, chinese. so moving out of the house is not an option for me because she only thinks that moving out means you’re gonna get married with someone. she is very traditional.

so it was a bless for me to only live by myself all those years when i was in college.

Should mary-jane be legalised? If so, for what reason? If not, why?

My reasons-
1. Far less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
2. Part of many cultures for thousands of years with no ill effect.
3. Has been proven to alleviate the symptoms of arthritis and many other painful diseases/conditions.
4. Relaxes people and does not make them aggressive.
5. Could be used as a cash crop, hemp makes good rope, paper and even textiles and therefore would be more environmentally friendly and provide a sustainable incomre to many in the developing world.
6. Decriminalising it means that organised crime would lose a big source of revenue, blow one, and the police would not have to waste valuable police time on this “non-crime”, concentrating their efforts on the hard drugs like tik and crack that destroy communities- the use of which I do not condone in any way shape or form.

Any arguments for or against?

I’m 28 and my little sister is 12. Now first I love my little sister very I’m like her second mother. Hell I used to take care of like she was my own. Anyway, my sister gets excellent grades. She is in all accelerated classes and gets straight A’s. She’s on the honor society and the national deans list. She’s plays the piano and is in choir. I am VERY proud of my sister and I brag about her all the time. With that says she gets whatever she wants. Like last week my parents, bought her an IPhone. My brother (22 yrs old) was outraged. In his opinion no 12 yr old should not have an IPhone. Also my sister demands that my mother buys her restaurant food for her school lunch EVERYDAY. To give you a background my mother is 57 yrs and has rheumatiod arthritis. Her hands are severely deformed because of this. Anyway my grandmother is the one that told me about my sister demanding lunch be brought to her everday. When I heard this I was angry. The school she goes to provides them lunch and when I was growing up I had to make my own damn lunch as well as my brothers. I just dont want my sister to grow up thinking she deserves special treatment all her life. In fact, I suggested that once my sister starts high school she could live with me. I live in the city and there’s this wonderful college prep school near my house and my sister could go to. http://uiccollegeprep.org/. My mother said she would think about it.

At age 68 it appears I am developing early symptoms of arthritis. Right now it is only affecting my knees, mostly my left knee. The pain is not severe, nor is my mobility affected. Walking and activity seem to help.

I have used a topical ointment at night to apply heat and ease the pain and it seems to help me sleep better. My doctor says to take a non-aspirin pain killer if the pain is severe, which it hasn’t been so far.

I am interested in any information that will help me manage this symptom of (groan) old age (there, I said it.) I expect over the years it will get worse. Can I prevent that? How should I deal with it?

I would prefer not to ever undergo knee replacement surgery.
You didn’t offend me, but I am a former smoker of tobacco and I don’t want to smoke anything again, ever. I would consider a pain drug that used the active ingredient in marijuana if such a drug were available without smoking it, however I don’t think the pain is anywhere near that severe yet.

the endo was all happy about how easy and cheap treatment would be, but i feel like i need to be in the hospital! heart racing, hot then cold, light headed, nausea, weepy, weak, out of breath. is that normal for “a little” overactive thyroid? my thyroid is enlarged too. i stopped taking Enbrel for psoriasis and arthritis 2 mos ago, and wonder if that triggered this. how long before the Tapazole makes this better? i need to teach high school like a normal person and feel like i’m losing it! please no bible quotes..i’m freaking out here and need some real answers. thanks.

She already had a spinal stroke and has arthritis

Is there certain medication that should not be taken with Sarcoidosis. I have recently lost someone to this diease who was being treated for Rheumatoid Arthritis. She was receciving a weekly injection ( not quite sure of the full name but its nickname is Gold Injection) and i’m just wondering if this would have effected her in anyway as she was told she could not have it one week because of having just a cold?
Also do doctors find it really hard to diagnois between the 2 illnesses or should it have been picked up over the past year and a half? She had all the symptons and now we have researched it, it seems obvious to us, should the doctor not spent time looking over his notes a bit more to realise the treatment for artheritis wasn’t work??