How many with joint problems?

[medtronic of borg]

pains

pains

When I was young..like under 19...I said I felt like I was 104 years old. That was how my mother kept tract of how I was feeling day to day. I had figured out this connection all on my oun many years ago. RA from mild to severe run in my family. Along with other auto immune diseases. Oddly the best thing I ever did was move to Hawaii to go to college. While living at sea level the constant pains went away. Then moving back to the midwest some mild aches and pains came back. So I vote we all move to Hawaii!!!!

 

[Nan]

joint problems

joint problems

Hi everyone, well, this certainly struck a chord. I had my AVR in 10/99, and since that time I have had carpal tunnel in both wrists, Dequervains syndrome (painful at bottom joint of thumbs, bad knees (both), neck problems and now a frozen right shoulder with impingment sydrome and arthritis in the left. NOTHING prior to AVR. It seems like an awful lot to me, and I now wonder if there is a connection. My mother "thinks" I had rheumatic fever as a baby, but is not sure.

Interesting thoughts.

Best to you all, and may you be pain free!!

Nan

AVR 10/99
St. Peters Hospital
Albany, NY
with a currently stenotic St. Judes Aortic valve and 3+ mitral regurg.