Lynne Harvey is a 61-year-old legal secretary from Reading. After an accident left her in all sorts of pain, Lynne needed something to help get her life back.
This is Lynne’s story….
For the past 24 years I’ve been a legal secretary in a commercial property company. So my life has been very much desk-bound. I’m not going to lie, I haven’t ever been particularly active throughout my life. I used to walk a bit when I was still office based, but that was to the bus stop and back each day.
I used to babysit my grandchildren and I would jump on the bus to pick them up and bring them back to my house. One day there was an accident on one of the roads the bus had to go down which meant it was put on diversion. So we had to get off much further from the house than we ideally wanted. I was then crossing the road with a child in each hand and a car was coming down the road quite quickly so I said, “come on, quickly, quickly.” I lost my footing and fell down on both knees. I was in a lot of pain and I couldn’t walk, so I was stranded with these two young children. Thankfully, a taxi dropped a woman off right next to where we were so we were able to get home.
I went to get an x-ray on my knees and was told there was nothing to worry about. I couldn’t take more than five steps without being in a lot of pain, but the doctor simply said I’d taken quite a knock and it would take at least six weeks to heal. But even after that I just couldn’t walk without pain. I had to start using a stick – which helped – but the pain didn’t go away.
I kept speaking to the doctor and they kept telling me to give it time which was really frustrating as I knew it wasn’t getting any better. They kept telling me to carry on taking painkillers. It began to have a huge impact on my life. I wasn’t seeing my grandchildren very often, I wasn’t going out to see friends because I was in constant pain. Friends would ask to meet for lunch and I would have to say, “can we meet somewhere close by or somewhere with a car park as I can’t walk far”. It was completely ruling my life; I was becoming a hermit. It was having a huge impact on my mental health, I felt like there were days where I was just existing rather than actually living life.
Eventually I had to start being bullish with the healthcare professionals to get to the bottom of it. Finally an x-ray revealed I did in fact have osteoarthritis. I am now scheduled to have a knee replacement at some point in the near future. I was trying everything to manage the pain, I was giving every gel under the sun a go and none of them were helping – on top of that they were giving me terrible skin on my knees to the point of causing them to bleed because I was itching them so much.
I also have fibromyalgia so I have regular massages for that. The woman who does my massage knows about everything that goes on with my health and I mentioned to her my knee was getting worse. She asked me if I’d tried FlexiSEQ, which up to that point I’d never heard of. So I ordered some straight away and I couldn’t believe how well it worked. FlexiSEQ was amazing, it was totally different from everything else I’d tried.
I was taking ibuprofen and using ibuprofen gels for the pain up to that point, so to discover FlexiSEQ was drug-free was unbelievable. It was unlike anything else I’d tried; it didn’t work by making my joints hot or cold, but was doing something completely different instead. It took a couple of days to start working and I haven’t looked back since. I’ve been using FlexiSEQ since January of this year and I’m so happy. If I ever forget to put it on after two days my knees are letting me know about it.
Now I’m more up to seeing people, spending time with my grandchildren and socialising again. I feel like I’ve got my life back all thanks to FlexiSEQ.
