What is your most difficult task with osteoarthritis?

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30/04/2019 at 10:11

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Hello everyone,

Osteoarthritis impacts different joints in the body. It could be your spine, knees etc. Depending where your osteoarthritis is, it can make doing different tasks difficult.

What task do you find difficult with your osteoarthritis? Share below! :)

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kellee55

10/09/2020 at 10:40

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@Courtney_J I work a desk job on the computer, and having OA in my hands can make it hard to work. On bad days I can barely grip the mouse or pick up a pencil, let alone type!

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laney365

10/09/2020 at 12:32

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I now find walking is one of the most painful things to do. I can go about 30 metres with the aid of crutches but find you have to pay for it either straight after, bedtime or the next morning. I often think is it worth it?
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Thats a difficult one , with multi joint arthritis it impacts on many routine daily tasks even simple things like opening a can, packet or parcel. My major prob right now is walking fortunately the isolation rules have helped and made delivery companies more ameniable to needs. I have just had a tip, if you cannot bend to pick up small items , kitchen tongs work well for things like letters ect.

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05/01/2021 at 09:57

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Walking getting washed & dressed plus bending down

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05/01/2021 at 11:14

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Walking as I have it in my spine all the way up now find I have to bend forward to walk with help of my walker also knees and fingers and toes

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05/01/2021 at 12:46

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I bend to walk as well. I also have stenosis in the bottom half of my spine, but was told by my consultant to stand up straight. I asked him if he thought he would be able to. The answer was silence.

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@kellee55 , my thoughts are with you fortunately I don't have to work retired, when I did work there were many jobs I could not do as a cook in the normal way . In fact my DR said my job probably hastened the detrioration. can you not use a speech input to help reduce keyboard in put? I guess you use a special chair for your back , if not ask for the adatation to be done for work, of course at present many people are working from home, so probably use their own chairs not office ones. I am using a dining chair which I find more supportive of the back when sitting at computer. Beleive there are many free speech inputs on line including microsofts own. Hope this is of help.

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@laney365 Hello Laney365, many people say why don't you do this including DRs & consultants but they don't have to live with it 7 days a week twentyfour a day. Do what is the easiest for you but try to do good posture if possible as bad posture causes pain elsewhere. I have multi joint arthritis and while using crutches for my knee recovery other joints have started to be more painful. This cold weather does not help either. Best wishes

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I don't have a paticular thing that is more difficult to do, all things require adaptation to do with least pain. Many things I no longer do after 30 years of arthritic pain especially in my hands and feet. However I still remain active and run my own home with the help of gadgets , walking aids , and of course painkillers.

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I so wish at times that I could transfer all the pain I have to the person who does not realise, including GP's, orthopaedic consultants, just for i hour or so and see what they then believe I should be able to do.
I also bend forward when walking and using my rollator. I do try to stay straight up but find my body automatically bends to reduce the pain. I would not get out if not for my rollator. I saw an orthopaedic registrar yesterday and not the consultant. The consultant specialises in joint pain and I have not met him yet and so I asked the registrar 'what are the best meds for all over joint pain' and he replied 'paracetamol'. I hope his future training is around pain relief, for paracetamols are what I use to once take for a headache!

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