The aches and pains thread........not a comfortable life :(

[suz67]

done 16 years,had one knee operation and two hernia operations,been fortunate never really had bad feet,dry heels in winter thats all,left shoulder blade really painful at the moment,and left hip starting to ache,not had revision yet,still doing overweights,bags,etc,getting in and out of van 150+times a day causing hip to ache! roll on revision

[Shambles]

Draws the wagon up outside the knackered Royal Mules paddocks, pulls a carrot out and a few lumps of sugar, click click, come on you two, time for the sausage factory

Seriously, I feel your pain, the job cripples you in the end....then when your off, the line manager always opens their letters with, "your welfare is of our uppermost concern"

Overweight bags, refuse them, get them weighed, logged and ask to see correspondence sent to office concerned AND their response....it's often one or two consistantly breaching H&S....don't put your already aching shoulders, backs through it!

[clashcityrocker]

2 questions:
1) Why is your HCT 170 kg - is it a super duper new one with a mega capacity?
2) Why do you need to bend over to brush your teeth? Where are they?

[savo]

Jimmy:

My mrs had a slipped disc and went thru hell with it.

She had all the MRI's etc but ended up not having an op as it somehow righted itself...

Still has good days and bad days but she bought an inversion table off amazon a fair while ago..... basically you lie on it, then incline it backwards ( angle is adjustable ) and you feel like you are hanging upside down, but it stretches/loosens the spine..

She swears by it, and uses it every other day or so.

In fact we are soon moving from a house to a flat, and don't really have room for the table, but she is adamant that it is going to new place !!!

HTH and good luck

[crazyshrew]

For most in my office it seems to be the knees, about 50% of us have support bandages on at least one ( i don't count mine were foobared before i started) for me its my wrists (from pushing the HTC)

[hampshireman]

2 questions:
1) Why is your HCT 170 kg - is it a super duper new one with a mega capacity?
2) Why do you need to bend over to brush your teeth? Where are they?

Must admit that I wodered about 170kg HCT

Clearly so far above limit as tobe a joke.

Sorry to say this JCL; but stick to the procedure

[haddie]

use trolleys and take the load off. first thing I do when I get home is a good stretching routine. calves, quads, hamstrings, IB , and back etc. the muscles tighten when under any exercise and need stretched.

[wiganpostie]

My knees are gone and my fingers are f***ed, my shoulder is just cream crackered,
metatarsal plays up when I get out of bed, just before the hair gets lacquered.

Can't bend over more than a hapless cripple, without making involuntary grunts
one day I'll tell them to shove this job, those bunch of coffee-drinking c**ts.

[hampshireman]

My knees are gone and my fingers are f***ed, my shoulder is just cream crackered,
metatarsal plays up when I get out of bed, just before the hair gets lacquered.

Can't bend over more than a hapless cripple, without making involuntary grunts
one day I'll tell them to shove this job, those bunch of coffee-drinking c**ts.

You,ve got hair?!!!!
Swine that you are

[clashcityrocker]

6 foot 6 and 19 stone?
Your bmi is over 30.
No wonder your body is struggling.

[Shambles]

6 foot 6 and 19 stone?
Your bmi is over 30.
No wonder your body is struggling.

honesty can be painful......duck City...lol

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

I believe the maximum gross weight of Mark I HCTs is 104Kg (isn't is ~132Kg for Mark IIs?), but that does not mean I will leave the depot at anything close to that weight and certainly not beyond it. If a HCT walk has drop points, I use them, it keeps the trolley light and therefor I can move the HCT easier (less inertia to stop and start) and put less stress on my body (which already has some niggling injuries). Pushing less weight uses less of my energy and makes me do each stint between drop points quicker (albeit I then "lose time" replenishing my HCT). If I have to wait for my drop bags to turn up, it unusally means even more o/t to claim (unless I'm waiting at our scheduled outdoor break time) or an unexpected reason to have to tell the office I'm coming back with some mail because I cannot go over.

Management soon learn to not load up the bag drop driver with "priority packets" and ensure the first priority of this driver is getting the drop bags to collection points. If we all stopped using bag drops, what do you think happens to the role of the bag drop driver over time and what happens to the size of the HCT walk if OPGs do not need to stop and replenish?

[Dee Plish]

Had 2 lots of keyhole surgery because of the job (confirmed by consultant surgeon and agreed by ATOS!!) - next time something goes wrong it will be a new knee. Working inside permanently now (again on ATOS agreement) which has and does help along with sensible physio. Have plenty of workmates with dodgy knees, hips & backs as well caused by delivering the Royal Mail. All caused by too many years pounding the pavements on deliveries nowhere near as long as the monsters they have now.

Of course RM put your health and safety first. Liars.

[fishtank]

6 foot 6 and 19 stone?
Your bmi is over 30.
No wonder your body is struggling.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is cited as 6 foot 5 and 18st 10 lbs.
You wouldn't call him a fat bastard.
Perhaps Jimmy is just big boned.

[ganda]

she advised the dom to get me back sorting in FLIP FLOPS with no socks on!

This is a no no. No one should wear flip flops in the work area. Health and safety rep should have laid the law down on that issue!