debby

Make sure you hot wash your socks and bedding and towels and bathmat at 60 or above, and give your shoes a good clean and disinfect. Otherwise you treat your foot and then get it back again.

Magnesium spray can help. Also a pair of soothing massaging gel insoles 🙂

You need to get the disc sorted sooner rather than later. If the disc is impinging on the sciatic nerve then its going to cause damage that can take a long time, if ever, to repair. When I slipped a disc, I got raging sciatica: at it’s worst, I lost the feeling down the right leg and was unable to walk.

I was very fortunate to be able to go…[Read more]

I have tried numerous supplements none have helped me. I take dicloflex SR which is hard on the tummy combined with paracetamol and take Lansoprazole to protect my tummy. Dicloflex does increase stroke risk. I think your partner needs to see his GP and hope they refer him to a pain clinic. There are loads of options for pain relief and people vary…[Read more]

I dislocated my patella at the start of last year due to trauma. It was painful initially and the doctor referred me to a consultant who prescribed physio. It would settle and then flare for the next year and then start of this year I popped it out again and have done so 3 times since
I think you need to get your knees looked at and ask for a…[Read more]

High heeled shoes?! I absolutely agree re shortening and supporting the tendon will really help. I used orthotic insoles as opposed to very high heels cos I’d just fall over a lot!

Cheapo cold compression, get a wine bottle cover. They usually have a velcro fastening, perfect for wrapping around the ankle and forgetting about it.

Get some support socks sold as anti DVT socks when flying. In the evening elevate them.

Thanks for the replies guys much appreciated!

So im guessing the conclusion is that if I wear a bunion corrector it could make things worse by adding extra pressure onto my big toe? Seeing as tight boots caused my bunion in the first place I can imagine making them even tighter by wearing a corrector would not be a good idea at all. Cannot even…[Read more]

When I fractured my femur and had it pinned it was physio who got me walking again, he was a hard taskmaster and I went weekly for about 12 weeks immediately after my release from the hospital. He used to make me walk up and down the corridor until I was moving properly and also used to measure the angles in all my leg movements to check I’d been…[Read more]