catembi

Use Athlete’s foot ointment (Mycil or Boots). More effective than the powder. If it doesn’t respond, it might be some infection other than Athlete’s Foot.

You can’t be too careful with the knee, if it is unstable at all further damage is very likely. so get it looked at! My youngest son, 21, had a sore knee last year but kept doing stuff (first injury was playing football), then made it worse falling off a bike and is now just finishing 6 weeks non-weight bearing after ACL reconstruction and…[Read more]

I have had numb legs after a disc issue, so much so that at one point whenever I dismounted, I would collapse. It would not be painful at that time, just no feeling or power to my legs. Once I had sat there for a while feeling would come back.

The GP was not terribly helpful, just gave painkillers and said to rest.

What turned the corner was…[Read more]

Thank you – lots of suggestions! Hopefully enough to instil confidence that it’s worth going back to the doctor’s. Especially interested in the cycling – he used to run a lot of half marathons, and I think that a lot of older ‘athletes’ seem to transition from running to cycling. He was considering it just as a replacement for running, but it…[Read more]

Thank you…so it sounds as if there are things to try?

I did get him to go to the doctor once but he was fobbed off, along the lines of, you’re in your 70s, you used to do a lot of running? What do you expect? Take a paracetamol if you need to.

So if we are armed with the knowledge that there is more stuff out there, like pain clinic etc that I…[Read more]