Okay folks, this is likely as far as I'll get -- posting stuff in a health forum on a discussion board. We're all different, and I come from a long line of matriarchs who don't see doctors and lived to their late 90's.
I don't dislike doctors, I just don't have experience. My life experience is every problem goes away.
Here's the basics. Active, just turned 46 years old, favorite activity is hiking in NY and VT. Have a camp in the mountains, very wooded. Taken precautions for ticks/Lyme disease for the past two years. I don't do anything else remotely considered a risky behavior. (Maybe I should.)
In Feb 07, I was doing something else when I noticed a mild pain in my arm and that it was swollen (the pain was the swelling), and I followed it back to my elbow, where I touched a more painful spot. I didn't remember hurting it. It lasted for about two weeks, but I noticed it did not get worse so I did not see a doctor. (I have to be unconscious to do that.) In March 07, the same thing happened in the other elbow, but was gone in a week and was milder all around.
I said geesh, both elbows. That's different.
A few months later my arms would hurt when I carried groceries home from the store, tears in my eyes, but that passed too.
In the fall, something happened with my feet. The bottom of my feet, the arch area, would go into painful spasms. Both feet, but more one side than the other.
In both situations, I tended to grab and massage whatever hurt -- which helped. I learned to sense when my foot or elbow would do that, and hold it tightly.
There's no other problems otherwise. I sleep well, enjoy my life, not slowed down at all. No family history of any kind of issues like this. Rarely sick.
I'm guessing ticks and Lyme before I started paying attention.
Any other thoughts? It crossed my mind again when I was gardening and moving big pots and told my arm to go to hell yesterday.
I'll probably delete this post in 20 minutes but maybe not. Just wondering if there's any other thoughts I could kick around.
Thanks!
Kate
I don't dislike doctors, I just don't have experience. My life experience is every problem goes away.
Here's the basics. Active, just turned 46 years old, favorite activity is hiking in NY and VT. Have a camp in the mountains, very wooded. Taken precautions for ticks/Lyme disease for the past two years. I don't do anything else remotely considered a risky behavior. (Maybe I should.)
In Feb 07, I was doing something else when I noticed a mild pain in my arm and that it was swollen (the pain was the swelling), and I followed it back to my elbow, where I touched a more painful spot. I didn't remember hurting it. It lasted for about two weeks, but I noticed it did not get worse so I did not see a doctor. (I have to be unconscious to do that.) In March 07, the same thing happened in the other elbow, but was gone in a week and was milder all around.
I said geesh, both elbows. That's different.
A few months later my arms would hurt when I carried groceries home from the store, tears in my eyes, but that passed too.
In the fall, something happened with my feet. The bottom of my feet, the arch area, would go into painful spasms. Both feet, but more one side than the other.
In both situations, I tended to grab and massage whatever hurt -- which helped. I learned to sense when my foot or elbow would do that, and hold it tightly.
There's no other problems otherwise. I sleep well, enjoy my life, not slowed down at all. No family history of any kind of issues like this. Rarely sick.
I'm guessing ticks and Lyme before I started paying attention.
Any other thoughts? It crossed my mind again when I was gardening and moving big pots and told my arm to go to hell yesterday.
I'll probably delete this post in 20 minutes but maybe not. Just wondering if there's any other thoughts I could kick around.
Thanks!
Kate