retired_loqui2

I'm currently playing as Cowdenbeath in the Scottish third division. My Captain has just been ruled out for 3 months as he has Arthritis!! He's 30 feckin years old!! Has anyone else been advised that there players have been struck by this crippling disease?

retired_tinkfaeree

I had it once in 2005, I think.

retired_sargent

If you only had it once, it wasn't arthritis

Kodokano

If you only had it once, it wasn't arthritis </BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, not osteo- or rheumatoid arthritis, but it could have been a septic or inflammatory arthritis.

retired_sargent

If you only had it once, it wasn't arthritis </BLOCKQUOTE>

......it could have been a septic or inflammatory arthritis. </BLOCKQUOTE>

You'd be bloody lucky to have that diagnosed on the NHS.

retired_milhouse_vh

My mates had arthritis since we were at school. He has to get his knees drained every few months and now its in his fingers and elbows. Gutted for him.

But he says the nurses are really fit at the hospital so that softens the blow. Think i'd just rather not have athritis but you dont ask for it do ya.

Kodokano

You'd be bloody lucky to have that diagnosed on the NHS. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Not really "lucky" - those are very painful and debilitating conditions, and clinicaly very different to osteoarthritis. As for not getting them diagnosed on the NHS, whether you're seen in the private sector or the NHS doesn't make a difference to what you're diagnosed with (although it might make a difference to how quickly you're diagnosed): there isn't a list of special "BUPA illnesses"!!!

In the case of inflammatory or septic arthritis you have a joint that is hot, red and swollen and too painful to move (sometimes too painful to weight bear on), so it's not too difficult to spot.

retired_loqui2

Would i be correct in assuming that you perhaps work in the medical proffesion, possibly for the NHS? or are you just really good at searching for things on google?

Kodokano

Well done Sherlock

retired_sargent

I doubt very much if, in the wilds of County Durham, the doctors in our local surgey would diagnose it correctly. It would be " Oh, here have a sicknote for a few weeks, it'll get better on its own, come back in a month if it doesn't improve"

We have one woman in the village that has been on the wrong medication for 18 years and they have just found out, strangely enough she is now comparatively fit again after 18 years of being housebound.
They just put down the symptoms and lack of progress to "side effects". None of the other doctors in the surgery will testify on her behalf though.