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You are open and upfront about certain issues that you have and then someone decides to take one of those issues and uses it as a joke at your expense. Not nice.
 
... you don't realize you have a cut on the tip of your finger until you slice into something like, say, a very strong red onion. :confused:

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Don't you hate it when you have to constantly correct mistakes made while typing because you're wearing a damn fingertip bandage.... LOL :rolleyes:
 
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... you don't realize you have a cut on the tip of your finger until you slice into something like, say, a very strong red onion. :confused:

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Don't you hate it when you have to constantly correct mistakes made while typing because you're wearing a damn fingertip bandage.... LOL :rolleyes:
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Ouch. :hug:
 
...you're having a problem with an electronic device, but the minute you bring it to someone's attention, especially someone who could fix it, the problem disappears.
 
.... you have to assemble some hors d'oeuvres without the use of your dominant hand's middle digit. I feel so clumsy. LOL :bag:
 
...you're texting or you're on FB and you see those three moving dots that mean "someone is writing something" and so you wait, and you wait, and you wait for the reply...then, nothing. Poof! The three little dots are gone, lol.
 
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Finding out you have freaking GOUT when you have been vegan for over a decade and hardly drink any alcohol, but the one kind you like (very hoppy IPAs) are the only alcohol proven to exacerbate gout. What actually exacerbates gout is when a stupid doctor puts you on a diuretic at 40 years old for the high blood pressure caused by your obesity and eating the SAD.

And no one tells you that gout can be a side effect of the medication, even though it is right in your medical history that your mother and maternal grandfather had the gout. And THEN when diagnosed by your adult non-medical son (from reading Game of Thrones lol), and subsequently get diagnosed at the doctor, you are told that because you always took your meds like a good girl, that you can never stop taking them, even though you have been normal weight and a vegan for many years. Turning 59 soon. And they want to add another medication that has horrible side effects to help control the uric acid levels and stabilize the gout flare ups. Nope.

I am drinking tart cherry juice daily and adding frozen cherries to my smoothies, drinking tons and tons of water, and taking an ibuprofen when it gets really bad. I'm worried about my fingers because the one joint is already ruined, and five others have llttle nodules on the sides that sometimes flare up red and painful. I don't know how to be a nurse if my fingers don't work right. And walking when the toe swells is ridiculous. Ouch

Also upset at having my arthritis misdiagnosed as osteo for 10 years. I remember a couple of years ago, I was having a (gout) flare in my right index finger's top joint, and the doctor shook my hand in greeting, and I involuntarily yelped because my finger hurt when he did. He looked at it, said "Osteo, it's in your first (top) joint." I told him it flared up now and then bright red and hot. The joint is immobile now, frozen.

I used to wonder how people with ostoearthritis could stand the pain, as I have a pretty high pain tolerance, and this brings me to tears sometimes and takes my breath away.
 
Wow, ledboots, that's crazy! So sorry you have to deal with that. My boss has gout in his toes and when it flares, he has so much pain. He doesn't have the best diet...drinks a lot and smokes cigars.
 
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Also upset at having my arthritis misdiagnosed as osteo for 10 years. I remember a couple of years ago, I was having a (gout) flare in my right index finger's top joint, and the doctor shook my hand in greeting, and I involuntarily yelped because my finger hurt when he did. He looked at it, said "Osteo, it's in your first (top) joint." I told him it flared up now and then bright red and hot. The joint is immobile now, frozen.
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My mum and her brother both had gout, it's meant to be very painful, one of her fingers went frozen too. I went to the doctor when I was younger (teenager) as my toe was frozen and painful and they said it couldn't be anything serious as I was too young and healthy.:rolleyes:
 
@ledboots :hug:I had always associated gout with processed meat, I just learned it's a form of arthritis!
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Do you do the acv in water? I've been drinking it in warm water every morning and I'm kinda hooked. Don't really know if it's doing anything or not, but it's tasty!
Which meds did the doc tell you you had to keep taking? the diuretic? Think you need a new doc?
 
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My father has had gout for as long as I can remember. His diet is good, but he drinks a LOT of red wine.
 
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@ledboots :hug:I had always associated gout with processed meat, I just learned it's a form of arthritis!
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Do you do the acv in water? I've been drinking it in warm water every morning and I'm kinda hooked. Don't really know if it's doing anything or not, but it's tasty!
Which meds did the doc tell you you had to keep taking? the diuretic? Think you need a new doc?
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Ya, the diuretic. And I am looking for a new doctor, but so far I haven't found anyone. I want a vegan-friendly one, because that tells me s/he's not an idiot, at least. I'm sure if I get off the diuretic, my levels will drop, I just don't want to wean off it without nedical supervision (although I can't tell you how tempted I am!) I have tried the ACV, but hate it so much. I really should, I know I can get used to it.

Sorry for my meltdown in the thread :argh: it is just so disappointing that the longer I work in the medical field, the worse I think of it. :no:
 
When people stop talking to you for months, and you want to make plans with them but you never can because they're never around. :rolleyes:
I just hate how distant some people are. I know people have their own thing, but months? It's like they don't even care at that point.
 
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Your restaurant lunch is too big so you bring the leftovers home with the intention of eating them for dinner or lunch the next day only to find you keep going back to the fridge for bites throughout the afternoon until it's all gone. :oops:
 
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When you think your chronic low back soreness is getting better (after 12 weeks), and you try to lift heavier weights again (after being very gentle and light for a few months), and feel immediate pain and now it's worse than ever. :/ I'm so sick of this pain. Can't get a doctor to take it seriously, even though I have severe osteoporosis in my spine. I just keep getting told it's muscle strain and just take pain meds. Right. And then I go online and every mainstream medical article about back strain says it's not good to rest it too much, that you should exercise and move every day (which I do), and lose weight (which I don't need to), use proper posture etc. All of those things I do, and my pain and soreness will not go away or get better. I can barely stand up or sit down right now without major help. Pissing me off.
 
but they don't say lift heavier weights...
I don't think you realize how much exercise you get! I think I'm a worm compared to you-or a sponge. Yeah, a sponge
Have you asked about those new pain realieving things you wear around your calf? I've just seen them advertised, different from tens. What about tens therapy?
Do you use a lot of tumeric, black pepper, ginger?
 
When your supervisor is more of a deterrent to efficiency than a help.
I can't seem to write anything that doesn't reek of sarcasm or snark. He hates that kind of thing
 
... when you wanna get comfy & all your cozy stuff is still damp and spinning in the dryer... for quite a while....? :pout:
 
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