Trouble with stairs?

[Jerman]

Hi everyone,

wondering if others here have difficulty going up and down stairs due to pain in your joints? I have had this since march when my challenges began with my health. I only have 12 or so stairs going to the bedroom but sometimes it seems like mount everest!!

 

[GoJohnnyGo]

Oh certainly. Hard on the joints, but also vertigo-inducing due to anemia. I would take elevators wherever possible.

 

[AIjen]

I have issues with stairs as well and our bedroom in on the second floor of our house (two-story). I seem to be a bit better lately, but it can get really bad. I guess this isn't that uncommon or unusual.

 

[katiesue1506]

Here's a place in which my boyfriend and I differ... I literally can barely do a flight of stairs without being so far outta breath and light headed... I ALWAYS look for the elevator, however my bf doesn't like elevators and says the stairs are quicker... sometimes I just suffer through it and sometimes I take the elevators and he takes the stairs... he beats me, but I could care less if I can still breathe.

 

[BWS1982]

Being bed-ridden caused such severe atrophy in me in early 2008 that I wasn't able to do the two stairs at once without straining like I was leg pressing 400lbs. and I have always without even thinking just done double steps when going up stairs very often. It didn't help at the time that I had Crohns induced arthritis (which only lasted 2 months thankfully) and if I sat or lay down for extended periods of time, I was limping badly when I went to walk again. That was horrid.

I've recovered from most of the atrophy of 2007's base muscle mass (prior to this flare), and the Crohns-arthritis has long subsided, but I don't know how long it'll be before I have 2007's leg-strength/mass back (gym is helping) or if that damned arthritis will return. The funny thing is during some of the highest dosages of pred is when the arthritis surfaced, which was abnormal according to both logic and my at the time GI's insight.

Jerman, is it worse if you've been immobile for a while, or the same regardless of activity level?

 

[Jerman]

Being bed-ridden causes such severe atrophy in me in early 2008 that I wasn't able to do the two stairs at once without straining like I was leg pressing 400lbs. and I have always without even thinking just done double steps when going up stairs very often. It didn't help at the time that I had Crohns induced arthritis (which only lasted 2 months thankfully) and if I sat or lay down for extended periods of time, I was limping badly when I went to walk again. That was horrid.

I've recovered from most of the atrophy of 2007's base muscle mass (prior to this flare), and the Crohns-arthritis has long subsided, but I don't know how long it'll be before I have 2007's leg-strength/mass back (gym is helping) or if that damned arthritis will return. The funny thing is during some of the highest dosages of pred is when the arthritis surfaced, which was abnormal according to both logic and my at the time GI's insight.

Jerman, is it worse if you've been immobile for a while, or the same regardless of activity level?

It seems to be the same regardless of my activity level. I was at my worst when coming off the pred with the joint aches. I guess I forget ( or repress) the amount of time I was on my back. Have had 5 hospitalizations since March which occured immediately after two ear surgeries in three weeks. I still dont have much stamina but am going back to work in August and really really want to do well. I have missed my work a great deal.

 

[Jerman]

Oh certainly. Hard on the joints, but also vertigo-inducing due to anemia. I would take elevators wherever possible.

Thanks Johnny, I have had the vertigo but not due to anemia. I have had chronic ear infections since i was very young.

 

[Jerman]

Here's a place in which my boyfriend and I differ... I literally can barely do a flight of stairs without being so far outta breath and light headed... I ALWAYS look for the elevator, however my bf doesn't like elevators and says the stairs are quicker... sometimes I just suffer through it and sometimes I take the elevators and he takes the stairs... he beats me, but I could care less if I can still breathe.

Thanks KatieSue. So it seems like the body aches are always there , not just with a flare up?

 

[Jerman]

I have issues with stairs as well and our bedroom in on the second floor of our house (two-story). I seem to be a bit better lately, but it can get really bad. I guess this isn't that uncommon or unusual.

Thanks AIjen, I have learned more about my "functional disorder" from my peers in this site than from the docs so far.