I used to\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nwork in an office as a personal assistant. When I met my husband Gareth we set up our own upholstery business. We have our workshops out the back. I do all the paperwork and the accounts as well as all the driving so he can be doing the actual upholstery work.<\/p>\n
In my spare time I love to\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nwatch football, my son plays for Eastleigh FC so we go to watch him whenever we can. I like to take the dogs for a walk, and I rear birds. I have silkies, bantams and mandarin ducks.<\/p>\n
My joint pain first started when\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\none morning I woke up in a lot of pain. I couldn\u2019t move my legs and my knees, feet and wrists were swollen. It was terrifying. In the morning when I needed to go to the toilet, I cried all the way to the bathroom. The doctor came out, gave me an injection and took blood before confirming it was rheumatoid arthritis. It happened that quickly.<\/p>\n
That was in 2009\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nand two years later I had a bone scan where they confirmed that I had osteoarthritis in my knees.<\/p>\n
Arthritis is so tough because\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nit\u2019s an invisible disability. I get looks and have had comments about using a disabled parking space which I have a badge for – it\u2019s frustrating that people assume you\u2019re fine because you look fine.<\/p>\n
You really take your…<\/strong><\/p>\njoints for granted. Suddenly the smallest of tasks became a huge chore. I couldn\u2019t take the dogs for a walk. Cooking became difficult because I couldn\u2019t take a pan off the stove as it was too heavy. Taking plates out of cupboards became impossible because it was the wrong angle for my wrists. Even the smallest of things like doing your teeth become difficult tasks because your wrists move up and down to brush and it\u2019s agony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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With my knees\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\ngoing up and down stairs used to be so slow. I had to take one at a time with both feet. So it would take twice as long. Going up is okay but going down was more painful. Driving I had to change my car because it was too low. It was too hard for me to lower myself into it and then stand to get out because of the pressure on my knees. The new one is higher so I can slide in and out of it. I have to drive a van a lot for our business. Had I not been able to drive, it would have impacted the business quite heavily because Gareth needs to be in the workshop doing the actual upholstery while I go out and about. Stepping in and out of the van to begin with was tough.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t think anything\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nwas going to help. Clicking and grinding isn\u2019t going to be helped by a pill. Then my friend Nickie mentioned this gel she used for her knees when she\u2019d had a nasty fall from her horse. She told me it was called Flexiseq and I went straight out and got some.<\/p>\n
To begin with I wasn\u2019t sure\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nFlexiseq was working. It took about three weeks and then, one day I got up, I was walking around getting ready – when I\u2019m at my worst it will take me two hours to get up in the morning – and I noticed I was moving quicker. There was no clicking, no grinding. I couldn\u2019t believe it, I haven\u2019t stopped using it since.<\/div><\/br>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Knowing I can keep the osteo at bay…<\/strong><\/p>\nwith the help of Flexiseq is one battle I don\u2019t have to worry about. My knees don\u2019t bother me at all anymore because of the Flexiseq.<\/p>\n
In the past I\u2019ve felt good and thought…<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t need the Flexiseq anymore I feel great.\u201d and I\u2019ve stopped using it. The longest I\u2019ve probably gone is three weeks and then I think \u201cyou idiot, what are you playing at\u201d. Flexiseq makes you feel normal again. Because you don\u2019t feel that pain, clicking, grinding, while walking. It\u2019s amazing how much you take normal for granted. Once I start using it again, it acts really fast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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