Hi Mickey,
My pain is like yours. I do okay in the mornings, a little stiffness and pain in my shoulder depending on which one I've slept on and some in the lower back and feet. Once I get going and after a hot shower I feel much better. I think people must wonder about me jogging to the bus stop with a cane but after spending 20 minutes on the bus I need it to get through the stiffness and pain from sitting. As far as the rest of the day goes the pain gets progressively worse as I have a job that requires me to stand a lot. By 5 pm my hips hurt and after sitting for a few minutes on the ride home I don't even want to think about walking.
I think my doc was a little puzzled about my pain pattern too. He scrunched up his eyebrows when I told him my worst pain was in the evening. Think about it though, how do you think you will feel after spending all day moving around on painful joints? Something is happening internally to cause the pain in the first place isn't it? Won't moving around aggravate inflammation and damaged tissues? Sounds logical to me. To hell with the textbooks!
* Christina steps down carefully from the low rise soapbox, cane first*
The End
Christina
