At what point on life can we start tk exclhde ourselves from the health advice given to the general population?

think we had survived this long with then telling us this is bad,opps no it's good but this that we said was good last years is bad, I think we should go by instinct, when I had my my eldest , mum had my baby sister ( not quite a week apart) and we concluded that everything was o.k. if the baby liked it, as what mum had been told was then wrong and what I was told mum was horrified, so we let the baby's decide, and think that everything in moderation is good, unless you are allergic to it, then leave it alone.
I hurt all the time, but if a stand a bit and toddle round the flat a bit and sit down a bit it all balances out and it hurts a bit less ( can't do more then toddle as if I walk too much the action of putting one foot in front of the other just stops, the doctors have absolutely no idea why, they have come up with lots of ideas that isn't causing it, so have given up and use a mobility scooter

Have you seen a specialist about it? Although I've had a referral with my mutant foot and the waiting time is 19 weeks.

Oh no! Could not wear one of those night splints! Hope the insoles help.

jingl - experience...we went into London last week and I wore supportive trainers with a supportive insole. We were walking quite a lot. It was agonising and even standing in the art gallery was painful. I was limping pathetically behind DH on the way back to the station, wincing with every step. Then on Saturday we went to Hever Castle and I had wanted to try thr new Lake Walk which would take an hour. Couldn't do it - was enough walking round the castle and round the gardens for a while. Gutted! I have various books/internet websites, some of which advise 'rest' and some of which advise keeping walking but in moderation. I would walk more if it wasn't so painful. None of my shoes are, or have ever been, anything but Sensible. I've been ordering and trying out different insoles, doing recommended exercises for the foot and wearing a night splint (torture!) which I don't think I can do for much longer because it isn't conducive to a good night's kip.
Common sense tells me that resting completely will atrophy my muscles and probably make the problem worse, so it's a case of finding a balance and not provoking the pain so much that I can't walk at all.
I think I might have found some insoles that ease the pain, though From good old Boots, and though they weren't cheap, if they help then they will be worth every penny. I'm wearing them with Sensible Lace-Up Shoes (of the sort I used to hate as a teenager,with thick soles and rounded toes, but love now because there is plenty of room inside for my wide feet! Fingers crossed.

You don' t have to rest your foot with plantar fasciitis! Who told you that?! Just wear shoes that give plenty of support.

roly-poly. (God! That was bad enough!)

You sound a sweet little roly- person. Nothing wrong with that.

I have decided I actually hate gardening. Been kidding myself for years. Much better to get someone else to do it for you. I do love the flowers.

I like walking to the shops.

I know I ought to walk/move around more, because I'm officially obese (over 12 stone and only 5 ft tall). My heart is at risk, my cholesterol much too high. But now I have plantar fasciitis, and for that you have to rest your affected foot as much as possible, and AVOID standing for long periods or walking too briskly. As I'm not good at hopping, this leaves me in a bit of a quandary about exercise.
I'm trying to stick to the 5/2 diet but being on the antidepressant mirtazapine, I'm hungrier and more likely to put on weight. So - I could sit down and wave my arms up and down a lot, or lie on the bed and do cycling exercises (never learned to ride a bike, so please don't anyone suggest that!) As to swimming....I haven't donned a cozzie in decades, and the thought of my flabby body on show to all and sundry fills me with horror.
I do enjoy gardening, when I can motivate myself to get outside and do some ( depression is a motivation-killer) - but that doesn't happen every day.
I haven't given up trying to live healthily, but I'm not doing very well, and get the feeling I'm playing Russian Roulette with my health....(well, I did eat SIX Walnut Whips the other day when I was feeling low.....)

I always disregard 'health warnings' anyway [aren't they for other people?]

I enjoy red wine and at nearly 85 it does not seem to be doing me any hard

They always contradict themselves the following week anyway. Red wine is good, red wine is bad, just drink it standing up!

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes nearly 10 years ago which turned out to be incorrect(I no longer have the symptoms)
So I now follow my own advice

I think it benifits us to pay attention to the fact that when health announcements are put into the media, they have come from statistics from the general population. However, we are individuals and, as such, must be thought of and treated as individual with our own singular health issues.

I have an adjustable high stool for ironing which makes life easier on the rare occasions when I do any ironing.

I'm with you there, anno!

I can't cut bread sitting down either and I don't know how anyone manages to do the ironing sitting down.

I plump for the latter, Nellie!

There is a very big difference in meaning between the terms "doing a little light housework" and "doing little light housework!" Just one letter make the meaning quite different.

I have to stand up to cut bread-makes my family laugh!

I agree, Flickety, if you don't like today,s medical advice jut wait a few minutes till it changes to something you do like. Chances are we are always doing something right and something wrong so we might as well please ourselves. I sit or stand according to how comfortable I feel - I think it is a decision I can make on my own.

Lils Bar, Aka?

I was commenting about my own comment Grace. The title of Michael Mosley's show is 'Trust me I'm a Doctor' or something like that and I was trying to find a pithy way of saying 'Trust us as we have the life experience to separate the bullpoo from common sense' but I got tangled up trying to précis it and it didn't really work.

Wanders off for a drink ....

Seemed fair comment ???

No, I don't know what that was supposed to mean either

Trust us we had common sense.