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Painful Arthritis in Index Knuckle
I've had a very painful arthritic-like pain in the base knuckle of my right index finger. I've had this consistently now for the last 7 months. What can I do?I don't have any arthritic pain any where else like this - although I have noticed that if I sit a any long lenth of time (as I did recently in a class), I'm very stiff and sore when I get up to walk. I'm 56 yrs. old, 20 lbs over weight, self-diagnosed as a nux vomica sort of individual. Thanks.
Thanks.
Giodio on 2007-02-17
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Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering?
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering?
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
♡ rishimba last decade
1. Describe your main suffering?
I've had a very painful arthritic-like pain in the base knuckle of my right index finger.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Many: fatigue, intermittent stitch-like pain to the upper left of stomach; intermittent cloudy urine & dull kidney pain.
intermittent migraine headaches.
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
At times I get very angry; very crabby. Other times I internalize the thought - 'I'm so depressed' - usually right after I've reflected on the perfection of others & realize I hardly measure up.
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
physically? fatigue; no energy.
emotionally - as described above.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
this particular knuckle issue happened after I played golf. I originally though I had torn a ligament or something, but now I don't.
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
it seems to be 100% of the time tender & sore.
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
don't know.
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
? don't know ? I'm post menapause for a few years now.
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
don't believe so.
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
already answered to some degree & I am sensitive and can easily become tearful.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
nothing significant.
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
not really.
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
yes - very sensitive to both.
but smell more.
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
yes - I find myself talking outloud sometimes.
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
that would take a novel.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
no fears, no repetitive dreams.
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
sweets - chocalate; sauteed foods.
I wouldn't say I crave eggs, but I do habitually eat them (every day). I'm lactose intollerant - so I avoid milk.
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
At periods I am more thirsty; but not lately. I drink 32- 40 oz of water a day.
I also drink 12 oz of coffee daily, & 2 cups of tea a daily.
14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
i am not necessarily hungry in the morning, but I always eat breakfast. lunch time - sometimes I eat just a salad (lettuce, nuts, raisins, olive oil & vinegar); Dinner: I eat a little protein, vegetable & salad. but after dinner I crave sweets.
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
I cannot tolerate having more than one cup of tea at a time. I will gag if I have too much tea.
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
I do not sweat much at all. Even when I work out, I hardly break a sweat.
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
sometimes fine and sometimes difficult to pass & small round matter.
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
sleep ok. actually, I may suffer from swollen sinuses too. I snore and never feel like I've been well rested.
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
yes.
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
No medications, but I take vitamins/supplements daily:
magnesium
EFA,
curcumin
garlic extract
calcium
Co-Q 10
rice-extract
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
high blood pressure,
alzheimers
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
5'2', 145 pounds. face looks puffy under eyes. fat around belly. muscular in upper torso.
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
post menapausal.
I've had a very painful arthritic-like pain in the base knuckle of my right index finger.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Many: fatigue, intermittent stitch-like pain to the upper left of stomach; intermittent cloudy urine & dull kidney pain.
intermittent migraine headaches.
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
At times I get very angry; very crabby. Other times I internalize the thought - 'I'm so depressed' - usually right after I've reflected on the perfection of others & realize I hardly measure up.
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
physically? fatigue; no energy.
emotionally - as described above.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
this particular knuckle issue happened after I played golf. I originally though I had torn a ligament or something, but now I don't.
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
it seems to be 100% of the time tender & sore.
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
don't know.
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
? don't know ? I'm post menapause for a few years now.
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
don't believe so.
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
already answered to some degree & I am sensitive and can easily become tearful.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
nothing significant.
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
not really.
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
yes - very sensitive to both.
but smell more.
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
yes - I find myself talking outloud sometimes.
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
that would take a novel.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
no fears, no repetitive dreams.
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
sweets - chocalate; sauteed foods.
I wouldn't say I crave eggs, but I do habitually eat them (every day). I'm lactose intollerant - so I avoid milk.
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
At periods I am more thirsty; but not lately. I drink 32- 40 oz of water a day.
I also drink 12 oz of coffee daily, & 2 cups of tea a daily.
14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
i am not necessarily hungry in the morning, but I always eat breakfast. lunch time - sometimes I eat just a salad (lettuce, nuts, raisins, olive oil & vinegar); Dinner: I eat a little protein, vegetable & salad. but after dinner I crave sweets.
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
I cannot tolerate having more than one cup of tea at a time. I will gag if I have too much tea.
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
I do not sweat much at all. Even when I work out, I hardly break a sweat.
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
sometimes fine and sometimes difficult to pass & small round matter.
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
sleep ok. actually, I may suffer from swollen sinuses too. I snore and never feel like I've been well rested.
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
yes.
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
No medications, but I take vitamins/supplements daily:
magnesium
EFA,
curcumin
garlic extract
calcium
Co-Q 10
rice-extract
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
high blood pressure,
alzheimers
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
5'2', 145 pounds. face looks puffy under eyes. fat around belly. muscular in upper torso.
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
post menapausal.
Giodio last decade
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