Introduction - Me & why I am blogging about Living With Arthritis

Well, I would like to welcome you all to my new blog, Living With Arthritis. I am going to tell you a little bit about myself and why I am making these blogs.

Me - 16/03/2011

First of all my name is Pamela Anne, I get called Pamie by my friends and family, I am 26 years old and currently living in Fife with my parents and older brother. I am currently unemployed but have recently been accepted into Aberdeen College to study HND Communication with Media.


Well, I suppose I should tell you all why I am doing these blogs. Back when I was born on the 1st February 1985, my mum and dad was told I was double jointed, other wise known as Hypermobile. Hypermobile is a condition where I can over stretch certain joints/area's of my body, in my case, my elbows, knees and back, I have also recently found out I am hypermobile in both my wrists. As the years went on I was rarely bothered by my Hypermobility, and well, I experienced little pain (only when I cracked the joint etc) and wasn't really aware of it all. However, in 2009, 1 year after I was diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression, I fell very badly on my left side and I hurt my elbow, it was in 2010, when I was seeing my physiotherapist about the pain, that I was diagnosed with having Hypermobility Syndrome, this was after I said I had also experienced pain in my knees, other elbow and back. So from then on I went on a research crusade and found out what could happen to me. On my last appointment with the physio, she said I was most likely developing Osteoarthritis, to which I had no clue about, again I went on the search on the Internet and found Arthritis Care.


I immediately joined the Arthritis Care forum and well, explained what was what, and to my surprise, no one knew anything about Hypermobility Syndrome (known as HMS) and its links to Osteoarthritis. So I found myself telling them about the links and pains I was going through, it was then I thought something needed to be shown about the links of the two. So I emailed Arthritis Care Scotland to ask if I could volunteer, first of all I had to fill a form out to indicate which areas I knew of etc then I had a wonderful email back from Melanie and from then on we discussed what I would like to do. As I told her I was interested in a career in Journalism, and that I generally blogged about my pain and tough times ahead in my life with my anxiety and bullying it was suggested I write about my general life and day to day dealings of living with this horrible illness.


So here I am, finally letting people out there know about the links between Hypermobility Syndrome and Arthritis, as I attend a HMSA group, I may be asking my leader if I can conduct interviews and/or research to how others have coped with the pain and "impending doom" as I call it. I have to say, many people think arthritis is a old persons disease, I can tell you this, it is not.


Well, I think my intro is long enough, I do not with to bore you before I have even started, I hope you all enjoy my blogs and I look forward to hearing from anyone soon about what I have written.




Pamela Anne aka Pamie
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