In the very early stages, OK I have big hands anyway, but my hands in the middle of the night were like boxing gloves, and unlike a few people I know with arthritis, heat is no good to me at all. I have to have freezing things. So what we did, because it was in the middle of the night, we thought OK, the best thing to do is have something cold upstairs, so we got a metal bed head, a brass bed head. So in the early stages, if I felt uncomfortable with my hands, I would slide under the pillow, grab the bed head and that would give me relief. So I've learned to live with it.
You mentioned that you had a cold pad as well?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, its like a little sausage and you know, if I feel a bit stiff, well I just whip that around now [neck]. Yeah fine, or even on my wrists. Definitely I, I need to be cold to get the best effect. My hands are usually always cold. People say to me, you know, 'you've got very cold hands'. Well that's obviously, got to be due with blood circulation more than anything else, but the fact that they are cold means that I'm not affected with the arthritis as much. |
