So Folks, I have come to the conclusion that I am getting old. Try as I might, I just can't seem to stave off the natural course of aging..Dammit!  I tried..I really did. Excercised, ate right and was well behaved. I'll admit I did not stay out of the sun..but that is my only sin..Promise.  :)   No alcohol, no cigarettes, no marijuana, no drugs other than prescribed.. But a nice tan every year..ha!

Anywho, for the past couple of months I have had the worst hip pain imaginable. Both hips hurt making it difficult to sit, walk, stand or lay comfortably. Sex..Did I mention sex?? No..Well here goes..I enjoy a full sex life with my husband..but the pain it causes me makes it almost unbearable. What position hurts my hips??
All of them, any of them..yes folks..Sex hurts my hips..yuck! 
To think, I never knew how involved your hips were in the process of having sex. HMM. Guess you didn't either. I am here to tell you, your hips play a big roll (at least for the women..ha) :)  Yes folks, there's your little sex ed class for the day..take care of those hips!

I have started taking glucosamine choindroitan (sp?) along with my everyday cocktail of health inspiring drugs. Lets see I am now taking calcium, g.c , dhea, edecrin (water pill for allergy related swelling), plaquenil (anti-malarial drug used to suppress immune system due to rheumatoid arthritis) , potassium (levels drop when taking daily water pill). Yuck, yuck and more yuck!  I am so trying to avoid going on pain pills that will help with the pain, but slow me down to a snails pace. I am so drug sensitive that one benadryl can send me down the slippery slope to sleep in minutes. Ha! I really prefer not to walk around in a fog all day and worse yet to become addicted to pain pills. I don't have an addictive personality so I seriously doubt this would happen..but who knows?

July 7-11th I am on a stay at home vacation. I will visit my gyno then and have a hexa scan done on my hips. Last one I had showed some osteoporosis/degeneration in the bones on both hips. YUCK!  After this I am likely to return to my immunologist for advice on the progression of the arthritis (assuming that is the problem).

Why do bad things happen to good people? Who knows? I surely do not know. A wiser person than I might know, but I have my doubts. The only thing I do know is that come what may...I WILL keep moving forward. I WILL live my life to the fullest, whatever that means for me. Keep you posted on the little ole lady drama in my life. Meanwhile...you keep moving forward in your life and keep me posted. 

peace      :)     shemelts