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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 441869" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Janet</p><p></p><p>doctor IS on to something about you being under medicated. </p><p></p><p>When you're in pain human nature is to protect and not use the area. While you may fight through that and use it anyway, pain levels will prevent you from using it at near normal levels as possible. When that area is a joint that is a bad thing. The more you move it the better. That whole you don't use it you lose it thing is huge with joints. </p><p></p><p>husband's grandfather had the most horrid gawd awful arthritis in his hips. He was an ex gymnast. In his late 80's and 90's the man was braving incredible pain levels to do his daily 2 walks of several miles each day with two canes to keep him upright. He swore he'd never be in a wheelchair, and to hear mother in law talk he never was. She inherited the same hip issues. She did well for years. But in her mid late 80's I couldn't convince her to go for real pain relief. She couldn't push past the pain to keep her level of activity up. It was a very short time that she became seditary, then when she did have to move the pain was so over the top....seriously I don't know how she managed at home as long as she did. Once we got her into assisted living and on adequate pain medications she was moving in ways I hadn't seen in YEARS. Her days weren't filled with agony. Toward the end the pain medications had to be upped finally to a level where it started affecting her thinking.....but once she found pain relief even on some level she couldn't go back to the way it was before.</p><p></p><p>I understand the worry that if you take too high doses now it might not help later.....but with a pain doctor you shouldn't have that issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 441869, member: 84"] Janet doctor IS on to something about you being under medicated. When you're in pain human nature is to protect and not use the area. While you may fight through that and use it anyway, pain levels will prevent you from using it at near normal levels as possible. When that area is a joint that is a bad thing. The more you move it the better. That whole you don't use it you lose it thing is huge with joints. husband's grandfather had the most horrid gawd awful arthritis in his hips. He was an ex gymnast. In his late 80's and 90's the man was braving incredible pain levels to do his daily 2 walks of several miles each day with two canes to keep him upright. He swore he'd never be in a wheelchair, and to hear mother in law talk he never was. She inherited the same hip issues. She did well for years. But in her mid late 80's I couldn't convince her to go for real pain relief. She couldn't push past the pain to keep her level of activity up. It was a very short time that she became seditary, then when she did have to move the pain was so over the top....seriously I don't know how she managed at home as long as she did. Once we got her into assisted living and on adequate pain medications she was moving in ways I hadn't seen in YEARS. Her days weren't filled with agony. Toward the end the pain medications had to be upped finally to a level where it started affecting her thinking.....but once she found pain relief even on some level she couldn't go back to the way it was before. I understand the worry that if you take too high doses now it might not help later.....but with a pain doctor you shouldn't have that issue. [/QUOTE]
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