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My foot hurts

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ClementineChurchill · 12/12/2024 21:35

My foot hurts. This isn’t chronic pain. It’s not a scary warning about something I need checking out. It’s not that I need special shoes. My foot just hurts. It happens sometimes as you get older. Before this it was my hip. Before that it was my finger (bizarrely, yes, I know).

Anyone else got any irritating minor pain that is definitely not a serious illness and just part of getting older that nevertheless they’d like to empathise about? (And no, I know about the menopause thanks)

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ClementineChurchill · 15/12/2024 11:43

Bodeganights · 14/12/2024 22:55

A wedding where I must look a trillion dollars. 😀

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Ah I see! Good luck then. Take flats in your handbag though …

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Letsbe · 15/12/2024 09:35

The funny thing is for me the knee pain comes and goes better in hot sunny weather.

Bodeganights · 14/12/2024 22:55

ClementineChurchill · 14/12/2024 22:48

If you don’t mind me asking, why are you trying to get used to heels again? (I gave up years ago … can’t be arsed).

A wedding where I must look a trillion dollars. 😀

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ClementineChurchill · 14/12/2024 22:48

If you don’t mind me asking, why are you trying to get used to heels again? (I gave up years ago … can’t be arsed).

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Bodeganights · 14/12/2024 22:15

ClementineChurchill · 14/12/2024 21:40

Still here for any Saturday evening aches and pains!

I haven’t walked much today and my foot is fine. My hip started twingeing when I was doing yoga tho.

Hmmm my two outside fingers on my left hand ache miserably. My left knee is loose again and a strange sciatic uncomfortableness, it's not pain, it's not aching, it's barely there. And I'm trying to get used to heels again so I'm schlepping around in the damn heels and my toes hurt.sigh

RedRiverShore5 · 14/12/2024 21:51

I get a twinge in my thigh if I have been sitting and I go to get up and I have to ease myself into it and then it goes and it's ok, DH says it's my age. I also sometimes get a thing called Achenbachs syndrome when I get a spontaneous painful bruise on my finger which suddenly goes hot which takes a few days to clear

GiantBears · 14/12/2024 21:43

I had this until recently and was convinced that it was a beginning of the great decline of old age. However, I sent to see an osteopath about something totally different and she just fixed all the problems on the spot. You could have knocked me down with a feather, honestly. Everything just works again now.

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ClementineChurchill · 14/12/2024 21:40

Still here for any Saturday evening aches and pains!

I haven’t walked much today and my foot is fine. My hip started twingeing when I was doing yoga tho.

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Legendofthelostkeys · 14/12/2024 15:56

Abracadabra12345 · 13/12/2024 21:00

Can I add bladder issues? There are days I can't hold my wee 😳 and also waking up in the night to go - so annoying. Then I have a spate where I sleep all night and when I do go, am astonished at how much my bladder has held!

Makes no sense

Same here! Some nights I have to get up 4 or 5 times before I can sleep despite not having had anything to drink for a good 3 hours before bed. Then other nights I don't have this issue at all even though I've done nothing different Confused

Bubobubo · 14/12/2024 13:15

I keep getting a pain in my ear, I looked it up, it's the concha cavum. Sharp stabbing pain that comes on.
Then it doesn't happen for a couple of weeks.

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ClementineChurchill · 14/12/2024 13:07

What particularly irritates me is that this year my plan was to get fit and yet I’ve been bugged by minor pains and aches all the time. Oh well … [gets out 2025 new year resolutions] … [writes ‘this is the year I get fit’]

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Sansan18 · 14/12/2024 10:33

TokyoSushi · 12/12/2024 22:50

I have plantar fasciitis, it is utterly grim and never better!

My right shoulder has also been hurting for about a month, joy.

It's a dreadful condition, made slightly better for me by insoles and special socks.I've been genuinely shocked at how debilitating a condition it is.I watched myself on the house cameras one day and was shocked at how I was hobbling along.I simply can't walk on bare feet any more and have to have Crocs by the bed side.

Mirenamirena · 14/12/2024 10:12

I get weird twinges in my hands that can come on in an instant without me apparently doing anything to trigger them. And then, the painful knee that comes on if I’ve sat the wrong way and makes me hobble, thinking I’ll never walk again normally, and then an hour later is completely back to normal. Or the times when I stand up and I’m only able to describe the sensation as my feet don’t feel like they are on properly.

Bodeganights · 14/12/2024 09:59

Abracadabra12345 · 13/12/2024 21:00

Can I add bladder issues? There are days I can't hold my wee 😳 and also waking up in the night to go - so annoying. Then I have a spate where I sleep all night and when I do go, am astonished at how much my bladder has held!

Makes no sense

Ah yes I too have this mystery bladder thing. I spend actual full weeks getting up every 45 mins to 2 hourly for a pee, then one day I sleep like I'm dead all night, wake up and my bladder has held seemingly litres, when for weeks 10ml has been enough to keep me wide awake and warrant a loo visit.

RaininSummer · 13/12/2024 21:03

Yep that too.

Abracadabra12345 · 13/12/2024 21:00

Can I add bladder issues? There are days I can't hold my wee 😳 and also waking up in the night to go - so annoying. Then I have a spate where I sleep all night and when I do go, am astonished at how much my bladder has held!

Makes no sense

DrMadelineMaxwell · 13/12/2024 20:43

I was warned that everything was downhill from 40.

At 40 I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, so my face hurts.

I had to have a hip operation due to wrong bone growth in the joint. And that was about it until a couple of years ago.
Now I'm 50 and I've had sets of shoulder impingement, and the hip operation needs revising as it's flaring up again.

DH says I'm broken.

AnyoneSomeone · 13/12/2024 20:19

My right shoulder was hurting all last week but the ache seems to have moved to my left ankle this week.

Dearover · 13/12/2024 20:16

I either have arthritis or trigger finger in my middle finger and it no longer bends as well as the rest of them if I clench my hand into a fist

RaininSummer · 13/12/2024 19:58

Thank you. I think it's arthritis too. Doctor told me it's a cyst. But when I googled they are linked to osteo arthritis.

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ClementineChurchill · 13/12/2024 19:30

My mum has a ‘witches’ finger’ - it’s arthritis. It will just keep getting worse. Mine is already developing. Doesn’t hurt at all though.

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RaininSummer · 13/12/2024 19:27

Ah I have the lumpy finger thing too which is new this year. People who have this... Does it eventually go or just get bigger and permanent?

Hollowvoice · 13/12/2024 19:09

Currently my left knee hurts. That means I'm walking funny so my hips hurt.
A few weeks ago it was my right elbow, which is now ok
Before that my feet, also now ok.

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ClementineChurchill · 13/12/2024 19:05

Renamed · 13/12/2024 18:59

I believe I am developing a bunion and it is very annoying. Also my knee is having one of its days

I love this way of expressing it - having one of its days. That’s exactly it!

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Renamed · 13/12/2024 18:59

I believe I am developing a bunion and it is very annoying. Also my knee is having one of its days