Sore joint on left index finger

[axisus]

Hmmmn ....... I've had an 'achy' fretting little finger for about 10 months now. Feels worst in the morning, and often I totally forget it, but it ain't going away. I have no faith in GPs though. My experience is that they either want to give you antibiotics for everything or they haven't a clue. One of my GPs would listen intently to me and then just turn around and google the symptoms! If you can't get referred then forget it!

[Blueingreen]

Sounds similar to me except different finger. Agree somewhat about GPs. I came away from mine thinking there were no serious implications for my playing and went home and googled it and got a much more pessimistic take on it. She basically said pain would settle down, I'd be left with a lumpy bit but shouldn't affect finger strength or flexibility. I can only hope she's right: lots of players haven't been so lucky.

(Of course it's hard if you're not a pro to broach the subject of how important playing is to you - you imagine they're going to think something like "ok my last patient had cancer of the liver and you're worried about a sore finger interfering with your hobby?")

[sambostar]

Hmmmn ....... I've had an 'achy' fretting little finger for about 10 months now. Feels worst in the morning, and often I totally forget it, but it ain't going away. I have no faith in GPs though. My experience is that they either want to give you antibiotics for everything or they haven't a clue. One of my GPs would listen intently to me and then just turn around and google the symptoms! If you can't get referred then forget it!

Yu are lucky, I was dying with an infection, saw the GP for the first time in eleven years and they wouldn't prescribe antibiotics as they said I was fit and healthy and worked outdoors for a living and antibiotics were being overprescribed, so it took another three weeks of slow and painful recovery whilst I missed another two weeks of work. Then when I finally got to work, after going down to just under ten stone from 12 and a half with a three week fever, I did my back in in the cold without even lifting anything. I only got ill because I took a two week holiday and stayed in someone's air conditioned house with the temp set to 23 C with 40 % RH outdoors. I have never been so glad to get back to waking up to 8 C and 67% RH indoors I can tell you. I love England! But it is shite for arthitis.

Problem is that there are too many hypocondriacal menopausal women out there that ruin it for the rest of us.

[octatonic]

Problem is that there are too many hypocondriacal menopausal women out there that ruin it for the rest of us.

I can't work out if this is predominantly ageist or sexist?

[sambostar]

Both!

[octatonic]

Both!

Thanks for the clarification.