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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / February 2006my fankle--relief at last!
i am from here on out calling my foot/ankle my fankle. easier. anyhow, i was ready to amputate my leg from the knee down. i haven't had that sort of pain since the early pre-good drug days with RA. but i finally got a couple of cortisone shots. the doc said i can get them every few months because i have so little cartilage left to destroy. :-) or something to that effect. i am trying to just enjoy the almost pain-free moment while it lasts. maybe i can sleep tonight. diane Glad you have some relief at last, Diane, and I also hope you will sleep well tonight. Gwen >i am from here on out calling my foot/ankle my fankle. easier. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > diane >i am from here on out calling my foot/ankle my fankle. easier. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > maybe i can sleep tonight. And tomorrow night, and the next night and.... There is something to be said for the cartilage being gone. I went through quite a few years with getting shots in one knee and then the other. Could not walk without a cane at a few points. Then after a while it was like there just wasn't enough tissue to get inflamed. I haven't needed a shot in the left knee in a year or so. And the right one hasn't puffed up in ages. Its a mess inside and will have to be replaced one of these days, but for now I'll settle for "doesn't hurt" Jo So glad you finally have relief. I also went through cortisone injections, but in the knees. The relief was almost immediate and allowed me to live almost pain free (in the knees, anyway) for a while. I hope you enjoy your almost pain-free state for a very looong time! Bonnie I like the new word: fankle! Glad you're feeling better! Vickie B. Diane, sure hope those shots help you out greatly. Am thinking of you.  SignatureHugs, prayers, good thoughts, Warm fuzzies, TLC, and Love Squirrely Jo >i am from here on out calling my foot/ankle my fankle. easier. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > diane Diane, I hear that!! At times a double fankle amputation sounds like a mighty fine option to me! I have problems with both ankles as well as the balls of both feet and a nasty case of plantar's fasciitis in both heels. Some days it is soooo painful to walk, I can hardly describe it. I am glad that the ankle shots helped you. I had a nasty reaction to a cortisone shot in my left ankle a few months back, and it scared me so much (not to mention that it did not work), that I am too afraid to ask for another one. When did you get the shots, if you don't mind my asking? I'm glad that you're finally getting some relief...you must be soooo relieved. Char oooh, char, tell me about your nasty reaction. what happened? i was nervous about it too, first of all because those shots can hurt like the dickens, but also because i used to get them in my wrists and they just made things worse. i got the shots about ten days ago. the first couple of days were bad, even tho he told me the shots should work right away. then all of a sudden, around the third day, i noticed improvement. knocking on wood it lasts a while. sorry for all the problems you're having with your own fankles. sounds as complicated as mine. i'm lucky only my left one is destroyed. i think the good drugs stopped the progression to my right. for now, anyhow. diane let's hear it for cortisone shots! SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare may your painfree moments last so long that your fankle forgets it ever had ra! and did you? did you get some sleep? kate i am from here on out calling my foot/ankle my fankle. easier. anyhow, i was ready to amputate my leg from the knee down. i haven't had that sort of pain since the early pre-good drug days with RA. but i finally got a couple of cortisone shots. the doc said i can get them every few months because i have so little cartilage left to destroy. :-) or something to that effect. i am trying to just enjoy the almost pain-free moment while it lasts. maybe i can sleep tonight. diane Diane, I've had three rounds of cortisone shots in each wrist, as well as a couple of rounds in my left shoulder, and they all worked wonderfully! However the one in my left ankle was just horrendousl I left work, went to the doctors', got the shot and went back to work. It was really sore that day, but it was every day, that was why I got the shot, so I thought nothing of it. I got home, sat down for about a half hour, and my ankle turned bright red and literally blew up like a small balloon. I could put no weight on it whatsoever. Then, all of a sudden, my ankle developed an incredible sensitivity, I couldn't stand for anything to touch it, anywhere at all. I made a mound of pillows, but my ankle couldn't stand to touch it. My husband had to help me back and forth to the bathroom and I had to try to sleep on my couch, because my bedroom is in a loft and I couldn't deal with the stairs. I couldn't even stand without leaning on something. I finally fell asleep around 4 in the morning and when I woke up at 7, it was much better....well, it was back to what it was before the shot. Since, I've been thinking...when I had the shots in my wrists and shoulder, I would usually brace my wrists for the next few days and I favored my shoulder as well. My doc said that the more movement there is in the joint, the more the cortisone escapes out into your body. Since I didn't know I would be getting a shot that day, I didn't have my air cast, and I did walk a lot that afternoon. Maybe that's what caused it? I don't know. Even with all that, it does sound that your fankles are much worse than mine. So far, I don't think I have any serious damage...at least not yet. Just constant inflammation of the ankles, heels and balls of both feet...that's all! LOL! I am happy for you that the shots worked. It gives me hope and maybe enough courage to ask for the shot again and see what happens. Char Char, I am wondering if with your ankle the same thing happened that happens with me when they give me the solu-medrol shots in the hip or shoulder. I swell big time. When they do the hips, I go kind of paralyzed for about 1 hour. They have to pack me in heat, to get it to behave. Sometimes in my hip, they activate that area plus the other hip. I don't know why or how it does that but it does. I feel for anyone that has to go thru those kind of experiences. With mine, they think it might be agitating the bursitis I have. I sure hope if you do decide to have another one in your ankle that you only have a good experience with it. SignatureHugs, prayers, good thoughts, Warm fuzzies, TLC, and Love Squirrely Jo > Diane, > I've had three rounds of cortisone shots in each wrist, as well as a [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > enough courage to ask for the shot again and see what happens. > Char Diane, I like you. The doctors always give me the cortisone injections and tell me that I should start feeling better right away, but it usually is just the opposite for me. The joint they have injected, will usually get considerable more painful and worse for the first 24-36 hours and then will start to feel quite a bit better. This past tuesday I had 3 joints injected and was literally in tears later that night because of the pain getting so much worse. By late wednesday afternoon, though, I was feeling so much better. It does seem like some people get instant relief from the injections, but for some reason, I am not one of them. My orthopedic guy actually gives out handouts to his patients telling them they may experience a worsening of symptoms first before they see an improvement and that it is not all that uncommon. Glad to hear you finally got some relief for those fankles!!! Hugs! Donna G >My orthopedic guy actually gives out handouts to his patients telling >them they may experience a worsening of symptoms first before they see >an improvement and that it is not all that uncommon. The pain after the injection is due to the freezing they inject is what the ortho who injected my neck told me. Once the freezing wears off....... and I found the freezing itself hurt............... --- Joan Donna, that is also my experience. The first time I had a shot for bursitis in my hip, I could hardly move that afternoon and the next morning. I just sat in the recliner and cried. Then it started feeling better, and became almost pain free. Gwen > Diane, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Donna G >>and did you? did you get some sleep? kate << yes, ma'am. it's like a had a foot transplant. d >>and did you? did you get some sleep? kate << yes, ma'am. it's like a had a foot transplant. d grrrrrrr8! good to hear . . . er . . . read. LOL!,delighted that you didn't literally go to that extreem to acheive it. kate. |
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