Apologies if this is the wrong topic, I do not have an illness that is going to affect the span of my life too badly (fingers crossed) but I do have one which affects every minute of every day in an adverse fashion. I have had arthritis in my spine for the last 20 years, it is painful and I take tramadol now twice a day which takes the edge off but never stops it. In the last 18 months I have had agonising pain in my SI joints which radiates down both legs, appalling shoulders and hands and wrists and feet and ankles and everywhere else! A bone scan showed active arthritis in every single joint in my body big and small, so now I take evil, foul Slufasalazine which 'may' in 6 months start to clear this up but right now it makes me feel sick and so, so tired. I don't have a life, I have an existence, I am no decent mother or wife or friend. I am just so tired and ill feeling all the goddamn time. And the stupid arthritis has broken both my ears now as well so I am deaf and I'm not even 40 yet. I want to stamp my feet and scream 'it's not fair'!
Ooooh, that feels better. I needed to write it all down and throw it away. I hope you will indulge me this rant but I feel I can't say anything in RL anymore, I must just sound like such a whinger. The envy I have for people who just skip around doing that they like knows no bounds!
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Life-limiting illness
Please may I have a quick whinge.
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LostInWales · 10/11/2013 15:32
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