Hi everyone
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:31 pm
You may be suprised to know that I am only in my late 30′s and my husband only turned 40 only last year. I've only been my husbands carer now for about 2 years, if someone told me that I would have to be my husbands carer I would laughed. Because it's not something I thought would ever happen. But it has and I'm trying my best to cope but it's hard, it's especially hard to see my husband in so much pain and changing as a person.
any way heres a list of my husbands health problems/conditions
• Several displaced vertebrea in his neck
• Dehydrated muscles in his neck and left shoulder
• Cervical Spondylosis (coupled with the above this also causes numbness of left arm with painful tingling in extremities),
• Thoracic Spondylosis,
• Chronic pain in lower back, the cause of which is still being investigated. This also causes muscle spasms and extreme pain in right and left buttock, both legs and up his back. Recently his right arm and hand have also started to shake and he often drops things from both hands,
• Osteoarthritis in both knees,
• Osteoarthritis and limited mobility in left foot caused by my left foot being shattered in a motorcycle accident in 1994. The side of the foot was also torn off (replaced with a large skin graft from my thigh) and the big toe partially severed.
• The above causes him constant severe pain and his knees often buckle causing him to fall, as does the pain in his back. He also has a neurological problem that makes his head think the floor is the wall and causes him to fall backwards without warning.
• He’s also had a prelim diagnosis of ME and Fibromyalgia. His Neurologist is almost sure (having ruled out MS), but we have lots of tests to go through before they’ll confirm it 100%
On top of all that (or maybe because of it!) he suffers from Anxiety, Depression, Agoraphobia and gets really bad panic attacks, mood swings and weird attacks that leave him hyperventilating, drenched in cold sweat, heart pounding, vision blurred, dizzy, disorientated and unable to move.
Seizures
any way heres a list of my husbands health problems/conditions
• Several displaced vertebrea in his neck
• Dehydrated muscles in his neck and left shoulder
• Cervical Spondylosis (coupled with the above this also causes numbness of left arm with painful tingling in extremities),
• Thoracic Spondylosis,
• Chronic pain in lower back, the cause of which is still being investigated. This also causes muscle spasms and extreme pain in right and left buttock, both legs and up his back. Recently his right arm and hand have also started to shake and he often drops things from both hands,
• Osteoarthritis in both knees,
• Osteoarthritis and limited mobility in left foot caused by my left foot being shattered in a motorcycle accident in 1994. The side of the foot was also torn off (replaced with a large skin graft from my thigh) and the big toe partially severed.
• The above causes him constant severe pain and his knees often buckle causing him to fall, as does the pain in his back. He also has a neurological problem that makes his head think the floor is the wall and causes him to fall backwards without warning.
• He’s also had a prelim diagnosis of ME and Fibromyalgia. His Neurologist is almost sure (having ruled out MS), but we have lots of tests to go through before they’ll confirm it 100%
On top of all that (or maybe because of it!) he suffers from Anxiety, Depression, Agoraphobia and gets really bad panic attacks, mood swings and weird attacks that leave him hyperventilating, drenched in cold sweat, heart pounding, vision blurred, dizzy, disorientated and unable to move.
Seizures
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