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Thanks both. I know, carrying shopping bad but have my walking stick in the other. Will have to sort something out, thought it would have stopped hurting so much by now.
I think I need to question the anti-inflammatory/methotrexate thing more, keep getting told not to take them which is crap with the arthritis let alone being as accident prone as I seem to be lately (had a bad fall on a bus and down the stairs too in the last couple of weeks or so!). I haven't got any in though have paracetamol, codeine phosphate, co-dydramol and dihidracoedine but all pretty much the same thing.
I need safety padding!