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.

Comments

[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.