Hi guys! Hoping everyone is feeling well. My shoulder is still frozen pretty solid, though pt says I am making progress though some days I don't feel it. Eyes are trying to flare with all this pollen, but I'm fighting it.

I haven't been in because frankly it hurts to be online. I very much WANT to spend all day here, and if I go poking my nose about, I certainly will. But being online is very uncomfortable arms wise. So I have avoided checking in, but I miss you all very much!

I am still doing fantastically on the NSD, and still a rather poor cook. I will try to check in more often, but not with the usual thread volume that I'm generally capable of.

LOVE!!!

Kancie, I'm glad you checked in. I hope your shoulder starts to get better. It's also good to hear that the NSD is doing well for you. Keep up with the effort!

--Greg

Hello Kancie,

Sorry your shoulder hurts, that was my first arthritis pain/symptom and I could not lift it or move it and getting dressed was something to be seen. Glad the NSD is working well for you, its helping me too and gives me hope.
We miss you too!!!

take care!

Hey, Kancie:

I had frozen shoulder and "adhesive capsulitis," and I did PT on my own: Very heavy dumbells (weights), and small circles parallel with floor. As my shoulder relented each a little more each week, the circles got bigger until I was able to do full-range, but even after that, I was unable to lift my arm too far above my head.

Hope You resolve this quickly--and get out and stay away from that inflammation.

HEALTH,
John

Thanks for the well wishes! You see I've already spent well over an hour here, reading and replying a bit.

This is my second battle with adhesive capsulitis. First the right shoulder now the left. I have to say the left is far worse. I didn't have much pt with the right, and it was 3 years before I had any real range of motion back, even doing exercises for it at home. Then a few months after feeling better - BAM left shoulder.

The first round, all I heard was, "We don't know what causes this. Women get it more than men. Diabetics get it." This time I have heard that, however I have very attentive physical therapy treatment this time, with both doctor and therapists HEARING me when I say that I have encountered many others here with AS who have also had recurring frozen shoulder. They are interested in a connection between arthritis and FS, and try many types of therapy and pain management. It is refreshing to be a part of my own recovery.

hi, good to see you here!

when i'm in pain so that sitting at a desk on a computer is hard, i'm glad i have my little mac book air with wireless. i sit in my recliner with a heating pad on with the MBA on my lap, arms close to my body and down. and a very ergonomically "correct" keyboard. makes being on a computer much easier. unless of course the thumbs, fingers, or wrists are flared. otherwise, these little computers can help.

of course there are sometimes when nothing really works. so if its one of those times, hope you are feeling a bit better soon

I have a pretty big lappy, Sue... but I do have a good lap table for it. What I don't have, that I feel would REALLY help me, is a recliner. I would LOVE to have a recliner.

Propped on the couch with the lappy just isn't the same, and still strains my neck and shoulders. My hands have been irritated as well. I do feel getting ergonomically correct would give me a lot more time online.I guess I should price chairs!

Sorry to hear you're having this trouble. I'd be climbing the walls (figuratively...) and in deep trouble job-wise if I ever had to stay offline very long. That's one of the things that spooked me most about iritis, lying in a dark room imagining having to learn a braille terminal...

I did respond to this - but dunno where I put it...! Sheesh gotta take some 'K' is all I can suggest...<LOL> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...tomisedMessage=

Hi Kancie - nice to see you - but not good to hear about the rotten shoulder problem. (John's 'circles' could well help - but no weights to start with, OK?) Take care gal -

Hi Kancie,
I was asking about you in the shout box. Wondered where you went to. Glad that you checked back in. So sorry you are still having problems with that arm. I know it takes awhile. Happened to my sister too. We miss you! Be well and God Bless.