Maxi'sMinis
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I have had 2 knee replacements, my rt foot fused and bad low back pain from arthitis and degenerative changes in the L10-S1 I think it is. The cold weather seems to be causing a great deal of pain and stiffness, my low back almost doubles me over when I get up or down in a chair, the car etc. I know when I was undergoing the knee replacements I barely made it through that one. It was so hard. Just agony all the time. The severe internal pain in my knees is gone but some days it is so hard to do even just the basic stuff much less taking care of chores.
I was so depressed living with tha pain before the knee replacement and my foot is painful and also has degeneration, so almost every step hurts. I have taken antidepressants, they made me gain weight and don't really help. I felt constantly sad.
It was better at 1st after the surgeries were over. This past year I had to have the screws removed from my foot and my heel fused but my forefoot is still so painful. The doctor said I needed to preserve what I had left there. Yeah right. What so don't walk at all?
My issue is since the cold weather has set in my joints have set up. It hurts so bad, and I feel that depression, can't go on thing coming back.
I haven't found anyone, doctor, psycologist what ever, that has helped. I don't want to take pain meds all the time, I don't want to be another House, all the docs want to do is give you a script and get you out of the office. But I don't want to get deep in that thought pattern that I just can't go on. I'm a big pus and would never hurt myself but when those thoughts pass through my mind I don't like it.
I know there are a lot of folks here that live with physical challenges what do you do to deal with the pain, how do you stay positive, how do you cope? I don't want to give up my horses, they are my life and love, I need some pointers on beating this thing.
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I was so depressed living with tha pain before the knee replacement and my foot is painful and also has degeneration, so almost every step hurts. I have taken antidepressants, they made me gain weight and don't really help. I felt constantly sad.
It was better at 1st after the surgeries were over. This past year I had to have the screws removed from my foot and my heel fused but my forefoot is still so painful. The doctor said I needed to preserve what I had left there. Yeah right. What so don't walk at all?
My issue is since the cold weather has set in my joints have set up. It hurts so bad, and I feel that depression, can't go on thing coming back.
I haven't found anyone, doctor, psycologist what ever, that has helped. I don't want to take pain meds all the time, I don't want to be another House, all the docs want to do is give you a script and get you out of the office. But I don't want to get deep in that thought pattern that I just can't go on. I'm a big pus and would never hurt myself but when those thoughts pass through my mind I don't like it.
I know there are a lot of folks here that live with physical challenges what do you do to deal with the pain, how do you stay positive, how do you cope? I don't want to give up my horses, they are my life and love, I need some pointers on beating this thing.
Help