Feeling old in the mornings.

Oh no...

No wonder GNHQ were reluctant to let us have biscuits before

We were just enjoying a or

Sorry, was I interrupting something pompa and loopylou?

I am off to swig down some magnesium tablets with gin (does that count?). I will eat some sultanas too if that helps.

I find if I sit down in the afternoon I get very stiff and hobble around for a while afterwards - as well as first thing in the morning.

Someone once said the only answer is to keep moving, but that is very difficult for 24 hours a day

Xxx then!
You charmer!

What !!! only one x, I thought that would have been worth at least xxx

Oh pompa, I'm sorry- You should be flattered x

Oh, LL I thought we were friends, your opinion of me cuts to the quick

Pompa's influence?

Seriously though, I recently changed the mattress and it's made a huge difference to me backache-wise. I guess I need to get used to being a hobbling wreck first thing since shattering one able/leg and severely spraining the other simultaneously.

I'm ok after about an hour so should really be grateful I don't yet have arthritis in both (which could be unavoidable), or worse.
Magnesium certainly helps, as does a taking a multivitamin containing zinc, plus painkillers if really is unbearable.

I noticed that too - maybe it was intentional?

Tut tut....Granny would NOT be amused!......but this one is.

I've just realised the double entendre in the "Stiffness - Get in the morning thread."

That will probably be misconstrued . Again.

Oh dear!!,the first smile of the day for me.

Ana Well spotted!!

I do wish GNHQ would be a bit more careful about how they phrase their 'Discussions of the Day' trailers...

annsixty I already had googled the gin soaked raisins! Very interesting, and something I definitely want to try. However! The websites I've looked at say you must use 'golden raisins'. Now, the big supermarkets here don't seem to sell these, though Holland and Barrett do at about twice the price of ordinary raisins.
Then I looked into it further and found that in the US they call sultanas golden raisins. I've tried to find out the difference between 'golden raisins' and 'sultanas' but have found widely varying information, so don't know what to believe any more. But I am beginning to wonder whether they are truly just sultanas - if so, Holland and Barrett may just be ripping people off!

annodomini. It's more a case of being determined to get off some of my meds than actually 'kicking the beast'. I'm not altogether sure I have kicked it to be truthful - time will tell . I have had a return of arthritic pain since cutting the dose right down, and I'm once again struggling to kneel, to climb on a chair, that sort of thing. And as for getting in and out of the bath, forget it! Showers only, these days .
The thing is, I saw a locum doctor several months ago, about another issue, but the PMR came up in the discussion. He was of the view that it is 'massively overdiagnosed' (his words). When I said, 'but the steroids have stopped all the pain I was experiencing!' he told me that yes, they would, because they're a powerful anti-inflammatory. But, he said, I should remember that a lot of my aches and pains were almost certainly down to arthritis, not PMR, so of course those would return as I cut down on the prednisolone. So I made up my mind there and then to wean myself off it, as I'm also on omeprazole daily for a haitus hernia and regular paracetamol for foot pain, and I don't want to rattle

For the sceptics amongst you just google Gin soaked Raisins and you will see I haven't yet lost it.Sorry merlot and Greyduster the gin has to evaporate.

If I've slept well I wake up feeling great, but after a bad night all aches and pains from tension. I've got osteo-arthritis too.
Reminds me of something Warren Mitchell said - "If I wake up in the morning with no pain, I think I must be dead"

annsixty

With me its more about my mind than my body. Its difficult to explain but of late I really feel quite 'away with the fairies' when I fist wake up even after a good night's sleep. I sit quietly in the sunniest part of the house for a while and let the daylight do its work. Once I've had coffee and breakfast I can then feel a bit more like taking on the day.

I usually pick the raisins out of my breakfast cereal and throw them out for the birds. Throwing out gin soaked raisins might have quite entertaining results!

Sounds wonderful! Can you skip the raisins and just do the gin (not keen on raisins!)

And then can you drink the gin they've been soaking in?