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pain after treatment
Its been awhile since i've been on this site. It always feels like home. I have been having very achy joints all over, the bottom of my feet hurt. Sometimes in the morning I can hardly move. I seem to have trouble focusing on conversations. I seem to miss alot of what is being said. Someone will ask me what was said, and allthough i was listening but I wasnt, I cant answer them. Its been a yr since my treatment ended, I was a type 1a. I took interferon and ribavirin.
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Hell no I'm going down swinging - bring on the botox and fake boobies! Yeah that's the ticket! Forget about my dead thyroid and other autoimmune issues from treatment they don't matter if I dont let them, plus that's why God made Synthroid......and Juvederm.....and spanx and chicken cutlets and Victorias Secret!
Heck, who's talking about being 20 again? I'm just talking about having as good of a life as possible physically and mentally till the end. It is a choice, you know, unless you are afflicted with one of the horrible aging diseases like my dad had... Parkinson's... then I know there isn't anything that can be done but live life one day at a time. But my mother-in-law lived a very joy-filled, and love-filled life until she was 95 and died in her sleep. She loved everybody, and everybody loved her. She was even tilling her garden when she was 93. That's what I'm talking about... the IMPORTANT things in life. Looks are only skin deep, and the wrinkles started taking up permanent residence 10 years ago... so what... if I'm good to people and cheerful, they don't care what I look like... and if my body works like I want it to... I don't care too much what it looks like either. I was talking about accepting physical problems as normal aging processes that aren't really normal.... My older sister thought it was "normal" to feel so tired all the time that she couldn't have a life anymore... thank god she went to the doctor! Her thyroid wasn't producing hardly anything and the doc said she would have died if she had gone any longer without treatment.
Honest Ya'll... I'd never intentionally say anything to offend somebody here... just stating my philosophy on aging.
Honest Ya'll... I'd never intentionally say anything to offend somebody here... just stating my philosophy on aging.
Thanks for all your answers, a little bit of info here and there, put it all together and presto! it gives me somewhere else to start.
"never accept anything as a part of aging until I have done everything I can to fix it and nothing works"
LOL there are just some things that are not going to go back to the way they were when we were 20 no matter how much botox or juvederm we apply - aging gracefully and accepting what comes with it is an art.
LOL there are just some things that are not going to go back to the way they were when we were 20 no matter how much botox or juvederm we apply - aging gracefully and accepting what comes with it is an art.
I'm sorry to hear about your husband. I know there are many kinds of dementia. My mom's was caused by a bunch of small strokes that nobody knew she was having, so she didn't even start taking daily aspirin until she was in her 70s, and by that time, large portions of her brain were just plain gone.
My husband has dementia and I live with it everyday and regardless of the medication which we have tried in abundance nothing has fixed it. It's not a matter of acceptance, it just the way life is so we move on.
I was not implying ladybulgloa is experiencing dementia either. Simply stating as we age, things change. PERIOD!
Trinity
I was not implying ladybulgloa is experiencing dementia either. Simply stating as we age, things change. PERIOD!
Trinity
"I felt like life as i knew was over too, even after treatment, but 1 yr later I'm taking spinning classes 4 times a wk and light weight lifting, which I thought physical excercise was a thing of the past.. I was a gym rat b4 treatment and 1 yr before I was diagnosed was very fatigued and had painful joint in my wrists. but i am now back at it in full force. I do have aches and pains sometimes, but a little of that could be due to age, I'm 50 now so I expect to feel something, but at least the fatigue is gone."
You may have answered your own question regarding the achy joints all over.
Also, you're 50 years old and as we age so does the brain and congnitive issues can start to develop.
Trinity
You may have answered your own question regarding the achy joints all over.
Also, you're 50 years old and as we age so does the brain and congnitive issues can start to develop.
Trinity
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If you are developing cognitive issues at 50, it isn't normal, and you should go to a doctor and get it checked. Many people aren't even planning on retiring before 70 and I'm sure their brain can still work until then if it is taken care of.
My approach to aging is, "never accept anything as a part of aging until I have done everything I can to fix it and nothing works" My mother had vascular dementia and her last years were not what I want for my family or me, and the sad thing was, the doctors said that they could have prevented a lot of the damage if she had just told them what she was feeling.