 hey what's up you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here hi hello I'm Lydia and if you are new here make sure you hit the subscribe button to join the growing family today I wanted to take a moment to talk about my arthritis now I know I've never made a video where I directly address my arthritis but I have in fact been diagnosed with arthritis since I was 17 started in my hands it's gradually progressed to most of my joints I use a cane when I'm it's been a very hard part of my life that I've had to accept and my fears got diagnosed I was told it was fast but fastly progressing because between two scans there were just a few weeks apart my joints in my hands got sober but arthritis has been something that I dealt with for a long time now I was 17 when I was diagnosed I'm 26 now so it's been quite a long time and how I deal with it when I know it's fast progressive I know that I'll never have the mobility back that I've lost so I can't do things I enjoy like ice skating I can't I can't skate anymore because my uncles are dewy I can hardly walk without stairs let alone ice skate which I miss dearly I follow loads of figure skaters on tiktok and I watch the videos and I just miss it so much because it was something I used to do for fun like I'd go on my own and I'd just skate around the ring and it was just it's just something that I've lost the ability to do with arthritis now I don't know why it's so aggressive I wish I did but I have like that's why my hand looks like so you can see why it stops me doing a lot of things literally every time I move I click I have arthritis in my hands my wrists my elbows my shoulders I have it in my hips my knees my feet my toes so I have it in a lot of places and it sucks truthfully I'll never be able to say that it's made my life brilliant because it hasn't it's made my life a lot more painful to me and I'm not on any pain meds at the minute for my arthritis like I was an amitriplein it interacts really badly with some of my psychiatric medications so I came off the amitriplein and I can't take paracetamol because I'm allergic to it she doesn't do much but it's the only thing I can do I was on codeine for a bit and that hell is but I didn't want to stay on it long because it's addictive I think the day that I got told literally you've got progressive arthritis is one of the days I'll never forget it was just after I finished college I went to a GP appointment and so I got told so right now I use a cane to get around two reasons one my knee is blocked don't know why I did to it but it's fucked but my ankle's locked into place so I use a cane to alleviate some of the pain I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy I really wouldn't living when you're in pain is hard living when you know that pain's gonna get worse is horrific one thing I want people to remember is I'm 26 there's been my life since I was 17 so I can just function with it like it's normal because that is my normal now I know I don't talk about it much and the reason for that is I don't have much to actually save on the subject because I can't change it there's nothing I can do so I just have to roll with the roll with it personally I think I wish it had come on later in life because it's just it's been so inconvenient like when I have to change lying on the tube to go to uni I have to hold the hand rail going down the stairs with a cane in one hand holding onto the rail with the other hand and people get so pissed off with me because it's rush hour thanks uni for being a great factor in that for starting my lectures at 9 a.m it takes me an hour to get there well done I wish there was a positive end into this but there is no treatment I will have it for the rest of my life so it's a hard one really but yeah if you have any questions you want me to answer around arthritis or want me to talk more about arthritis and how I cope let me know in the comments down below leave a thumbs up on the video if you enjoyed this little talk and don't forget to subscribe if you're new I think I've already said that editing me will find out thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next video peace