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from many of the emails i am getting and reading it seems to me a lot of doctors if not all should return to uni for a session in pmr, as they all seem arragont in proberbly a subject that they know little about.
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r.d.s26296 margaret22251
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Margaret HI
Our GPs are definitely not specialists ... They are there to refer us to a more specialized doctor in a particular disease ...thats why with PMR/GCA its advisable to go to a rhumatologist ...
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margaret22251 r.d.s26296
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Hi r.d.s. i am under a rheumatologist at Chapel Allerton in Leeds, and so far so good.
I will be bringing this up in my next app.
If the doctor says yeah you have pmr i will be making a visit to the GP
Michdonn margaret22251
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That's very true Margaret, but it also very true with a lot of people on all kinds of subjects. We must not get too comfortable and complacent or we could fall into the same trap. I am ski instructor, I don't know how many people stop taking lessons after a day or two. I been skiing for over 60 years and still take lessons each year, it was my hobby and now my vocation. I am lucky and love to learn so I not become complacent, ready to learn about PMR, skiing, politics, solar energy, food, diet, Brexit, etc. The list goes on! We must try and learn all we can on the subject that effect, us it is our responsibility to ourselves. Please do not reply on the doctor to guide you through this PMR journey, take control, no one cares more than you! Think positive, stay active, I going for a walk in the snow, and try to smile. You get through it! 🙂
EileenH Michdonn
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I went for a walk around the village - snow would have been acceptable compared to the sheets of ice I met in a few places all across the road!!!!!
Silver49 EileenH
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It's positively balmy here. . I even saw someone wearing shorts! I could have been gardening at 5pm. It was still bright then.
EileenH Silver49
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It is absolutely glorious here - but the temperature difference is from -9C before breakfast to +9C in the mid-afternoon! That's sort of at the top of a Munro... Can't be healthy. Down in the valley is it 7 degrees warmer - mid teens in the afternoons!
ptolemy Silver49
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I went to the local Spa yesterday and people were lying round the outside swimming pool and also swimming. One person said she had even caught the sun.
Silver49 EileenH
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That's quite a contrast. It's certainly not healthy here and there seems to be more of the same next week. It's not winter as I knew it.
EileenH Silver49
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No, definitely not...
TheRaven Silver49
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I'd gladly take some of that! Here in northern Minnesota we've had over 3 feet of snow in the last 3 weeks and when it wasn't snowing we had temperatures -40 and lower. Reminds me of winters when I was young.
margaret22251 Michdonn
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Its true what you say, today is my birthday and we went to a little town called Brighouse for lunch and walked in the sunshire by the canal, after we sat also in he sunshine and i thought how pleased with myself i was for walking so far.
then back to reality when i got home, as i brought in my washing i suddenly felt so tired i thought ok you have overdone it, but rest and i did feel better.
off to my sons sunday to see my grandson and lunch and a walk in the peak district.
and yes you right i will get through it.
Michdonn EileenH
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That no fun EileenH, had a brisk 1.5 mile walk. I missed the NM sun, normally I do not care how cold as long as the sun is shining, it is pleasant. In reality it not that cold here we are too far south. Tomorrow should be better! 🙂 Think Positive!
Michdonn EileenH
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EilleenH, -9 to +9C, you are a little warmer there this week, last week we were warmer by 3 or 4 degrees. A lot of the sown melted in the town last week. Predicting snow for these week.
Thinking positive!
Silver49 margaret22251
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A belated Happy Birthday. That's exactly what I've been doing.......completely overdoing it and reducing at the same time. I was so exhausted last night I could hardly move and I made plans to garden today because the weather is so good. I have given up on reducing to 1.5 at present and went back up to 2......realised in time. Enjoy your time in the Peak District today.
margaret22251 Silver49
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thank you, just got back frm a great weekend, uped my steroids by 1mg as i did over do it, but noticed the pain behind my ear subsided as well,