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Originally Posted by dllfo
I think I asked this question before...but I can't remember, so here goes:
Have you ever heard of someone walking normally, then their knee gives out and they fall?
OR, in a restaurant last week my right hip gave out and fell against a wall. Luckily I was using my forearm crutch and it saved me from falling hard.
I was walking down some stairs and my left foot gave out, it quit, would not accept any weight on it. I fell the rest of the way and hurt my ankle.
So hips, knees, ankles and feet are unreliable. I am using my power chair a lot now.
My body does not warn me about this new thing. I just fall.
I will be in pain and unable to use that foot, ankle, knee or hip for as much as 30 minutes. THEN I am mostly normal. Xrays are negative. I have some arthritis, but the doctor says what is happening to me is not arthritis. He is setting up more tests.
Brainstorm with me. Guess. We have tried the usual stuff with no luck, so tell me my ancestor was "Big Foot" and I have a genetic predisposition to fall down. That is more than my doctors have figured out.
Bottom line, I can't trust my lower limbs any more. No repetition, that is, it might be my right foot giving out, then 6 hours later my left knee or hip. Way too weird. I am really hoping one of you has heard of something like this. I would not wish it on anyone, but if another person has this problem, I would love to discuss their findings. Thanks...
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Oh dear that is so SCARY. That has been happening to me for ages, and I hate it. But, it does go away as long as there's little stress and I use a lot of B12. (methylcobalamin)
I generally try to stay in bed when it's happening a lot.
At two different court hearings that were particularly stressful I could barely get to the car afterwards. Someone was driving me.
I no longer take stairs if there is an elevator.
I fell early last winter and hurt myself badly enough that it was hard to walk after that, and that meant weight gain.
Health problems are so thorny, they are never one single thing, there are so many inter related aspects.
A lot of people say that using a walker is the answer, but I think that the answer is reducing stress, or one's vulnerability to it, and lots of B12 (methylcobalamin) and slowly rebuilding ones strength in ones legs... walking slowly and as long as the falling thing isn't happening, consistently.
This spring I could barely walk around my garden, and my feet and legs seemed so heavy that it frightened me, but now I'm doing better and am hopeful once again.
I think the main thing is not to get hurt falling, so staying in bed if you can until it happens less, or stops happening, seems like a good choice to me.
then, staying near a wall, so if you fall you can use it for support, so to tables, chairs, counters...
Basically, that's what I do. I sure hope you don't fall and get hurt.