I've just come round to ask you, Mrs Holroyd

[venta]

Last year I was diagnosed with arthritis in my fingers. Various blood tests showed it wasn't one of the scary auto-immune kinds, and x-rays revealed no damage, so I have non-specific pain in my finger joints which is therefore diagnosed as arthritis. The leading drug to treat this does wonders for my fingers, but makes me quite ill. Accordingly, I have decided to tolerate painful fingers.

Except of late, I'd noticed that they weren't particularly bad. Hardly hurt at all, in fact. In the past few days, though, I've noticed that they've suddenly been painful again.

This morning, I twigged that my knuckles getting bad seems to correspond neatly with the recent damp, drizzly weather we've been having.

Apparently I actually am feeling the damp weather in my bones. Coming soon: how nothing is like it used to be, how all modern music just sounds like noise, and why I am about to get a blue rinse.

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

Conversation outside the machine room: "It's just like a club - there's flashing lights, lasers and you have to shout to make yourself heard above the filthy racket that's just noise."

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I already feel the word "dubstep" fits nicely into "That godawful [...] racket".

[susandennis]

Interesting. I have one finger who's joint flares up severely once in a while but, thankfully, not often. I never thought of a weather trigger. On the down side, it would be a bummer to look at the forecast and know your hands were going to turn on you next Tuesday. Now we know why so many old people are cranky!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to try and ignore it rather than assume that I'll have creaky hands in the rain for the rest of my life!

[susandennis]

Sounds like the prefect approach to me.

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Is it all about the weather, or other triggers eg foods?

You've let me down today. When I wrote my sleep log, I expected you to be the person who knew who I'd parodied. A virtual frilly dress could be yours...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sorry for letting you down, busy day at work and I hadn't read my friends list!

My hands haven't been bad enough (yet) for me to worry about isolating triggers. I think, at present, that that way lies rampant hypochondria! I may need to start investigating one day, but not yet.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Lots of modern music is actually sounding like noise to me, thanks to deteriorating hearing and increasing processing issues, but the much scarier phenomenon is that music I used to loathe is sounding quite good to me now! (90s dance music, mostly.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Last night, in Subway, I was singing along to Haddaway!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

That is one of the worst culprits! It's so damn catchy. And yet ... I hated it with a passion when it was first out. I'd leave rooms to avoid it. ARGH.

I have also found myself "quite liking" Will Young, though mostly his covers on the Dermot O'Leary sessions. These are currently my most played CDs/tracks (thank you, AutoRip), even though a lot of them are either cheesy or the kinds of songs I just did not like 10 years ago. What is happening to my brain?! :D

[uitlander]

If you are going to get a blue rinse, you should have a mohican to match.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Holme Valley Tradition (I think) Do You Think it Looks a Lot Like Rain?

[venta.livejournal.com]

One kudo (I thought you'd get it :)

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Ah the joys of aging!

Try a teaspoonful of cinnamon a day, I have mine in yoghurt and it really helps ( it's a highly effective anti inflammatory)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Wow, a whole teaspoon of cinnamon!? That sounds a little daunting but maybe I should try it. Naproxen and I are really not friends.

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

You don't have to have it all at once but I quite like it.

Naproxen makes me hallucinate!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Gosh. Is there not a topical version of naproxen like there is ibuprofen?

[venta.livejournal.com]

My fairly sensible doctor knows that both Naproxen and Ibuprofen, in sufficient doses, make me ill and she didn't suggest a topical approach, so I guess it's not appropriate. I should ask next time I'm there, though!

[kate-r.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the pain and the crappy drugs. If it gets too much it may be worth investigating alternative drugs, each type can cause a different reaction depending on the person so it may be you're suited to a different altermative. On the upside at least you don't live in Scotland where it seems almost permanently damp!