[brenda]

I’ve had your problem in the past – Physio gave me exercises to strengthen muscles around the knee which I have done (on and off) for a year or more, and almost daily in the past couple of months leading up to my Lake District holiday this week. No problem coming down from the Langdale Pikes, or the other fells this week. See a Physio!

[brenda]

Stand about 1m away from a wall ,facing it, and then lean forward so that your shoulders are close to the wall, while keeping your heels on the floor. Stretching the calf muscles is supposed to help… and it did work for me a while back. Good luck it’s a pain

[brenda]

I rang up the doctors surgery this morning – told the first available appoint would be 12th December! That’s any doctor, anytime, no preferences. When I sounded a bit worried she asked me what was wrong and I said that my foot had gone numb and I was concerned because I have a prolapsed disc. She said she would get the doctor to ring me sometime today. About 20 mins later she rang me with an appointment – luckily my boss let me go! Just come back from the appointment and the doctor said its due to my sciatica. Reviewed my medication, suggested I go to pilates and cut down on my spin class (I go five days a week) although the numbness and sciatica happened before I started spinning. She said see how I get on and then review in the spring and maybe chat about having the disc operation that I declined a few years ago.

So relieved I thought it was something serious, especially as the doctor booked me in so quickly after I rang up.

[brenda]

Thank you. I don’t want to be accused of being a timewaster. I’ve tried googling numbness in my foot but can’t really find anything useful other than possibly being MS or Peripheral Arterial Disease both of which I really don’t think for one minute it is! Crikey.

I think I might go to the walk in centre one night this week. I keep going over on my right ankle to, it doesn’t hurt because I manage to ‘catch it’ in time but I do worry about spraining it. When I fell over in the car park I went a right sprawl and apart from hurting my pride, fortunately didn’t hurt anything else but I thought then how weird it was as I didn’t appear to trip on anything or over anything. Then it happened again a few weeks later, but that was last year. You know what its like, you always make excuses for weird things that happen, and I just thought I was being clumsy. Maybe I was, I hope so.

[brenda]

Yes sorry I meant a hospital walk in centre but couldn’t find the words for it yesterday! I’ve been to one before when my knee swelled up following a trip. They thought it was septic arthritis, following an xray that diagnosis was ruled out. I went on a Thursday evening when all the soaps were on TV as I thought it would be quiet and got seen within 10 minutes and was out within 45 mins. If I ring my doctor I normally have to wait about 10 days.

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