Hi JayCS,
My back is painful all the time, but if we go out, even for a short walk, then it gets much worse, and makes the stomach worse as well. I have stopped cakes and bread, not that I did eat much of them anyway, but don’t think it’s making a difference. Next I will try potatoes/chips, but only have them once a week.
If I sit for too long, say 30 minutes, then I find I go stiff and have to try to ‘walk it off’ a bit. Everything is such a drag these days, and so fed up of it all. These days it feels more like it is my ribs hurting.
Thanks for pics of your lovely flowers, the pink rose is so pretty, and I love poppies as well. The blue of other flowers, can’t think of name, is beautiful, blue is my favourite colour Lol.
your stomach getting worse from walking could be the strain or the back or something of its own. What I actually meant was if you can move in other ways than walking without the back hurting more.
So you’re starting low and going slow with eliminating single foods, not food groups. Good on ya. With single foods we can usually either see a difference fairly soon or not at all. (For food groups we’d need to do it for a month or three…). Of course it does improve our general health if we can manage to avoid cakes, bread that’s not wholemeal and chips.
So I’m not sure it makes sense to test something you only have once a week. You should notice a difference the day you eat it or the night / day after.
I’ve got the same stiffness as you have, starts after 5 minutes. It’s tendons and muscles sort of seizing up. Twist-stretching my limbs before or after getting up helps. And if I use different moves, carefully “throwing” my limbs, I can also get up despite being stiff.
If its the ribs hurting we can test that by pressing the muscles between them.
Likely it’s “costochondritis” - loads of exercises for it on youtube (like upper back).
What are you doing to cheer yourself up? Hope you get lots of that!
The pink rose is now 15cm in diameter, biggest in the garden!
The blue ones are Tradescantia, lot of names like inchplant, wandering jew, the species bluejacket or spiderwort, in German the family is called three master (as in sailing ship) or god’s eye. I like three master and bluejacket best.
Here comes the pink one, my biggest fairy bellflower and and blue thimble flower.
Cornflower coming up next… - one of my faves!
Oh sorry I got that wrong about walking and the back. I can move in other ways yes, but don’t try to do too much, it’s more the walking that is worse I think.
Not been on computer much as am having eye problems now but the optician can’t see anything wrong, except age and dry eyes etc. I get floaters/flashes and end up with aching eyes.
I am finding things a bit better not eating bread/cakes so will continue with that and cut down on eggs but not out completely yet.
Cheer myself up? I haven’t found anything yet, and now with my sore eyes I can’t read as much as I like to, or do my cross stitch.
Thanks for the flowers, all looking beautiful-the rose is so pretty, the blue ones a bit like bluebells we get here, do you have them over there? Cornflowers are also lovely, I think they have cheered me up a bit, thanks.
Hope you are doing ok, we have some sunshine this morning-rain later.
OK, so it’s probably like me about moving slowly and not too long, but regularly - and not walking…Walking takes too much energy I can use more effectively for other things.
For dry eyes I warm them, like rubbing my hands and cupping them over my eyes, and then gently stroking above & below with a jam lid (gua sha). That gets the tear fluid flowing better again.
Good you’ve found bread/cakes make a difference, however little. Always good then to keep a lookout for outlets, something “even tastier”, but healthier.
If I couldn’t read, I’d use audio books, is that a possibility?
Had to look up English bluebells, altho I can well remember the flower name, probably from poetry. I can’t remember having seen them, but I’ve looked up we do actually get them here, too, even the carpets of them in woods a bit in some areas. Funnily in Scotland they call bellflowers “bluebells” or “bluebell of Scotland”. These bellflowers have identical blossoms to ours, just rounder leaves, instead of long thin ones. But I have to admit there’s so many flowers in our garden I’m now discovering and finding beautiful that I’d never been able to appreciate before. I didn’t know much more than roses, poppies and rhododendrons about a year ago. Now I’ve found out the names of more than 150 in our garden, and more to come when the blossoms allow me to identify them, 14 on the balcony, 9 in the flat, and I can remember around 100 of them I’d think, still practicing. Newest surprises were all the evening primroses and (despite having sown them myself…) Californian poppies. The last one might be the next big surprise - enormous, look like they might turn out to be sunflowers, about 20, but the online tool hasn’t a clue what it might be. #2 is viper’s bugloss, #3 the tool doesn’t really know either, but I’m pretty sure it’s an “orange lily” - but in pink. #4 cornflower #5 Californian poppy #6 ?? praps a “rough oxeye” = “false sunflower”, whilst “golden crownbeard” = “wild sunflower” doesn’t seem to occur in Europe/gardens.
Hi SueT for dry eyes I use during the day Hyco San Extra and at night I use Artelac Nighttime Gel. You can get these from your optician or chemist. If you can keep your eyes lubricated you will find reading and using the computer easier. As I am unable to put my neck back I find lying flat on my back on the bed is the easiest way to get the drops and gel into my eyes. I hope this information will help you.
puting the drops in and the gel in is the best and easiest way to use them.
Hi JayCS,
Walking does take too much energy, we had to go to the supermarket yesterday and was wiped out afterwards, even though it didn’t take long and had a sit down as well.
I think I have been remiss in washing/cleaning my eyes the last few months with the baby shampoo mixture so will go back to that again, but the rubbing hands things sounds a good idea, thanks.
Don’t think I could bother with audio books, I much prefer an ‘actual’ book, always have been a book reader. But giving the cross stitch up though.
Your garden does have some beautiful flowers in, glad that you also get our bluebells there as well. When they start to flower they do tend to carpeting areas of woodland-not around here though. #3 does look like some sort of a lily, ween mostly in white here I think. The blue of the cornflower is so lovely. Don’t know about #6 and #5 looks bit like out buttercups only bigger and longer stems. Don’t know too much about flowers now, really miss my own garden.
Many thanks for the lovely flower pics, hope you have a good day.
SueT.
Hi rosebud74,
I also use Hyco San, but the original in the blue box, have used it for years and the optician said it was one of the best. I will have to look into the one you mentioned, not heard of it, so will try Boots when I can get there. I usually put drops in when I go to bed as well. Is the gel easy to get on with, I remember I tried some gel years ago and couldn’t manage to get it in properly. Thanks for advice. Hope you have good day.
Yeah, true, but what I like most about #5 California/golden poppies is they are more orange than all the yellow ones, and 10x as big as buttercups.
Now the flowers have opened the RHS-tool have identified #6:
it’s rough oxeye = smooth oxeye = false sunflower, they’re really taking off now. Can’t see how it is rough or smooth, or both at the same time, and I don’t see how they’re unsuccessfully attempting to be sunflowers, so I prefer the German name “garden suneye”. Love the way they shine and stand out in the dusk as well as in the daytime.
And I don’t seem to have put up any of the evening primroses yet, they’ve taken off too, just needs getting used to that they open in the evening and close in the late morning, as the name says…
Some are over a yard high, like all the suneyes.
Hi SueT
When I tried to put the gel into my eye standing up looking in the mirror more of it went down the nose than in the eye! Lying on my bed I dont seem to have many problems. I aim to get the centre of the tube to the middle of the eye. Then lift the tube higher and then point the tube straight down holding the bottom eyelid out. People think I am daft lying on the bed to put drops and gel into the eye but it works for me.
I hope you have a good weekend and not in too much pain.
Hi JayCS,
Oh, I can see now how different they are from the buttercups, and what lovely flowers they are.
Garden sun eye is such a good name for the other ones as well, better than rough oxeye Lol.
Hi rosebud74
Thanks for the tip on putting in the eye gel, I still have to get to Boots to look for it. Even with the liquid one I use, I sometimes get it running down my face Lol.
I am literally fed up with all the pain now, and my stomach won’t settle down no matter what I eat/don’t eat/ Have taken out a lot of things from my diet but not made any difference yet, fingers crossed.
