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Interesting...
I ran into my sister this morning, and was talking to her about the joint issues. She's double jointed & has the same knee problem, and now her kids are showing it too. She told me to look up Hypermobility Syndrome, and this is part of what I found online: from the American Journal of Psychiatry
Of the patients with anxiety disorder, those who had joint hypermobility syndrome were younger and more often women and had an earlier onset of the disorder than those without joint hypermobility syndrome. Conclusions:Joint laxity is highly prevalent in patients with panic disorder, agoraphobia, or both and may reflect a constitutional disposition to suffer from anxiety. Mitral valve prolapse plays a secondary role in the association between joint hypermobility and anxiety. Am J Psychiatry 1998; 155: 1578-1583
In the "Okay, this definitely sounds like me" category, from http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org:
"If the patient has not yet been diagnosed as suffering from the HMS, the chances are that she may have been made to believe that her pain is psychosomatic, and in some cases that she may have injured herself on purpose. This scenario is most common when the patient may not recall an ‘accident’, which would normally account for such an injury, or when her description of how an injury occurred could not account for such a severe injury in a normal patient. She may have high expectations, having waited many weeks for an appointment to see the consultant and having invested in the hope that the specialist might be able to help. She may be depressed as a result of her pain and disability. In addition, she may seem desperate, willing to do anything to be free from the pain. The patient may appear to be angry at all medical professionals after years of inadequate or inappropriate care. She may be defensive and anxious to prove that she needs help, and she may therefore appear to be exaggerating her problem. Finally, she may be unclear what symptoms to relate, as the problem has often been present throughout her life and she has begun to wonder if it is a normal part of her life."
" Patients are left feeling isolated by their pain and by the lack of effective medical treatment."
All the resources I have found have the same recommendation -- tell the doctors to piss off, then lose weight and exercise like a lunatic until things stop hurting. Yeah, that ought to be simple. Will someone please explain to me why we can have a little blue pill that makes mens' willies go up long after they ought to have given up, but we can't fix this?
I ran into my sister this morning, and was talking to her about the joint issues. She's double jointed & has the same knee problem, and now her kids are showing it too. She told me to look up Hypermobility Syndrome, and this is part of what I found online: from the American Journal of Psychiatry
Of the patients with anxiety disorder, those who had joint hypermobility syndrome were younger and more often women and had an earlier onset of the disorder than those without joint hypermobility syndrome. Conclusions:Joint laxity is highly prevalent in patients with panic disorder, agoraphobia, or both and may reflect a constitutional disposition to suffer from anxiety. Mitral valve prolapse plays a secondary role in the association between joint hypermobility and anxiety. Am J Psychiatry 1998; 155: 1578-1583
In the "Okay, this definitely sounds like me" category, from http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org:
"If the patient has not yet been diagnosed as suffering from the HMS, the chances are that she may have been made to believe that her pain is psychosomatic, and in some cases that she may have injured herself on purpose. This scenario is most common when the patient may not recall an ‘accident’, which would normally account for such an injury, or when her description of how an injury occurred could not account for such a severe injury in a normal patient. She may have high expectations, having waited many weeks for an appointment to see the consultant and having invested in the hope that the specialist might be able to help. She may be depressed as a result of her pain and disability. In addition, she may seem desperate, willing to do anything to be free from the pain. The patient may appear to be angry at all medical professionals after years of inadequate or inappropriate care. She may be defensive and anxious to prove that she needs help, and she may therefore appear to be exaggerating her problem. Finally, she may be unclear what symptoms to relate, as the problem has often been present throughout her life and she has begun to wonder if it is a normal part of her life."
" Patients are left feeling isolated by their pain and by the lack of effective medical treatment."
All the resources I have found have the same recommendation -- tell the doctors to piss off, then lose weight and exercise like a lunatic until things stop hurting. Yeah, that ought to be simple. Will someone please explain to me why we can have a little blue pill that makes mens' willies go up long after they ought to have given up, but we can't fix this?