I'm scared of what's going on with my body...help me
Posted by
vtiff
I'm having difficulty in the medical community trying to pinpoint what's going on with my body.
I have always been a pretty active person, played basketball in HS, played tennis 3 times a week for about 3 years, and even played on a league for the summer about 8 years ago, I'm a 46 year old mom of teenagers and run all the time, I took hip hop dance classes 2 years ago, I did karate all last year, I camp, I hike, I kayak, I like to think of myself as a semi professional photographer, but my job is sedentary...however, I've never been one to sit around, I'm always on the go, I've been the Little League President for the pasts 3 years and I'm at the ball field for hours every week on my feet running the concession stand. my point is that I'm pretty active, sometimes more so than others...but, over the past two years, slowly my mobility seems to becoming compromised. I've had many blood tests, been to a rheumotologist who said I have early, early onset of OA and a slightly elevated sed rate. but, everything else checks out perfect. And yet,
When I have to sit for a bit, say more than 15 or 20 mins at a time, when I go to get up, I can barely move until I've moved around for a bit and then it seems to be fine. It seems to be worse on some days than others..but, generally, it's worse in the evening than at any other time. I am supposed to meet with my GP this week and I don't know what to ask for next.
I'm scared, I know my body has something going on that's different than I've ever had before and it has affected my mobility...the last time I went camping, I had difficulty in the night making it to the bathroom in a timely manner due to the mobility...
I probably sound like a hypochondriac at this point, because I keep giving them as many symptoms as I can think of that might be something associated with what ever is going on...and now, I don't want to say anything...all my blood tests and xrays say I'm fine...so, what is going on.
If anyone can help me with what I can do to be my own advocate without sounding like a hypochrondiac.
Would OA cause this much mobility restriction at such an early stage?
I apologize for the length of this post... VTIFF
Posted by vtiff
I'm having difficulty in the medical community trying to pinpoint what's going on with my body.
I have always been a pretty active person, played basketball in HS, played tennis 3 times a week for about 3 years, and even played on a league for the summer about 8 years ago, I'm a 46 year old mom of teenagers and run all the time, I took hip hop dance classes 2 years ago, I did karate all last year, I camp, I hike, I kayak, I like to think of myself as a semi professional photographer, but my job is sedentary...however, I've never been one to sit around, I'm always on the go, I've been the Little League President for the pasts 3 years and I'm at the ball field for hours every week on my feet running the concession stand. my point is that I'm pretty active, sometimes more so than others...but, over the past two years, slowly my mobility seems to becoming compromised. I've had many blood tests, been to a rheumotologist who said I have early, early onset of OA and a slightly elevated sed rate. but, everything else checks out perfect. And yet,
When I have to sit for a bit, say more than 15 or 20 mins at a time, when I go to get up, I can barely move until I've moved around for a bit and then it seems to be fine. It seems to be worse on some days than others..but, generally, it's worse in the evening than at any other time. I am supposed to meet with my GP this week and I don't know what to ask for next.
I'm scared, I know my body has something going on that's different than I've ever had before and it has affected my mobility...the last time I went camping, I had difficulty in the night making it to the bathroom in a timely manner due to the mobility...
I probably sound like a hypochondriac at this point, because I keep giving them as many symptoms as I can think of that might be something associated with what ever is going on...and now, I don't want to say anything...all my blood tests and xrays say I'm fine...so, what is going on.
If anyone can help me with what I can do to be my own advocate without sounding like a hypochrondiac.
Would OA cause this much mobility restriction at such an early stage?
I apologize for the length of this post... VTIFF