saturdayschild
23-04-13, 13:13
I was amazed that it just over a year since I last posted. It really helped then,just getting it down in writing. The HA has not gone away but I have been trying to fight it. I even plucked up the courgae to have a smear test done last summer and it came back clear, so nine years of worrying were wiped away in an instant.
Lately, the HA has come back. I have a load of issues which make me stressed - mother with dementia, have to work 600 miles away from husband. However, I thought that at last there was light at end of the tunnel and I had worked out a plan to join husband by the end of the year. Then I started to get anxiety attacks, convinced that I will never get to this target but have got some terrible disease which will stop it from happening.
I'm sure that one of my problems is that I work from home. I think it is very unhealthy as you spend all day alone with some site visits, hunched over a computer or driving rarely talking to anyone. But thats the way it goes for this job, everyone is doing it this way, the only jobs are working from home.
Since before christmas I have been having symptoms of RSI in my right elbow. I call it mouse elbow and I know it is due to the computer. The pain is not as bad now but my elbow clicks when I extend it and hurts when pressed on.
If I am not busy on site visits then I can spend five or six hours a day hunched over the laptop. Then about two weeks ago I agreed to do some extra freelance work - I thought it would help the long term plan - however I had to work in the evenings and at weekends so the four or five hours at the keyboard became more like eight or ten.
Last week I started to get weird pains all over my body. Not even sure if they were actual pains, more like twinges or feelings. They moved about, sometimes lower left pelvis, then behind shoulder blade then moved to the right. They went away with a couple of ibufrofen. Then sunday I noticed that the area where my ribs join, exactly where a bra fits round (being a female) was tender to touch. There are other tender spots too on the back of my ribs left side, my left shoulder blade and my right hand side ribs. In fact my ribs and shoulders are all tender and stiff. Still taking the ibuprofen but has not made much difference. It doesnt hurt to move or when sitting still,just if I press on it.
I did a brief search of Dr Google (i know..) but fortunately it led me to a few postings on NMP describing this condition - costochondritis. All my symptoms fit, but of course I am still convinced it is something much worse. Cant get a Dr appnt til next week so not sure what, if anything, I should do. Can excessive use of computer cause this?
Lately, the HA has come back. I have a load of issues which make me stressed - mother with dementia, have to work 600 miles away from husband. However, I thought that at last there was light at end of the tunnel and I had worked out a plan to join husband by the end of the year. Then I started to get anxiety attacks, convinced that I will never get to this target but have got some terrible disease which will stop it from happening.
I'm sure that one of my problems is that I work from home. I think it is very unhealthy as you spend all day alone with some site visits, hunched over a computer or driving rarely talking to anyone. But thats the way it goes for this job, everyone is doing it this way, the only jobs are working from home.
Since before christmas I have been having symptoms of RSI in my right elbow. I call it mouse elbow and I know it is due to the computer. The pain is not as bad now but my elbow clicks when I extend it and hurts when pressed on.
If I am not busy on site visits then I can spend five or six hours a day hunched over the laptop. Then about two weeks ago I agreed to do some extra freelance work - I thought it would help the long term plan - however I had to work in the evenings and at weekends so the four or five hours at the keyboard became more like eight or ten.
Last week I started to get weird pains all over my body. Not even sure if they were actual pains, more like twinges or feelings. They moved about, sometimes lower left pelvis, then behind shoulder blade then moved to the right. They went away with a couple of ibufrofen. Then sunday I noticed that the area where my ribs join, exactly where a bra fits round (being a female) was tender to touch. There are other tender spots too on the back of my ribs left side, my left shoulder blade and my right hand side ribs. In fact my ribs and shoulders are all tender and stiff. Still taking the ibuprofen but has not made much difference. It doesnt hurt to move or when sitting still,just if I press on it.
I did a brief search of Dr Google (i know..) but fortunately it led me to a few postings on NMP describing this condition - costochondritis. All my symptoms fit, but of course I am still convinced it is something much worse. Cant get a Dr appnt til next week so not sure what, if anything, I should do. Can excessive use of computer cause this?