Do you deliberately climb steps wehn there is a lift available?

True.Long walks are anyday better than staircase for our knees.THanks for the response.

Sorry I did not see thsi earlier.How are you now? Have a hot water fomentation andalso sit with your knees stretched in front of you. Keep your feet on a stool and keep your legs as straight as possible without bending it.Try this and you may find some relief.

I had fractured my heels and my feet have never fully recovered from that. I do feel better, I never know when something is going to hurt, because of the fibro

Oh no...I had my son when we lived there. I didn't go to my mother's. I got my labour pains at around 4.30 am...walked down the stairs...found that someone had cross parked behind our car...so, ended up walking to the hospital which was close by and had my son within the next hour and a half. When we came home from the hospital, 7 people pulled us up in the lift. After that I always used the stairs again.

God ! So, you kept climbing 4 floors when you were pregnant? You are a real sport I should say!And I shudder to think what would have hapened if you had started your labour pain at home[with the lift not working]but you would have gone to your parents' place if I am not mistaken isn't it?

My God ! it was cutting it so fine; in hindsight it would seem very adventurous. But who escorted you Sandhya? Was it your mother or husband? Or did you do it alone too?

You climb down 11 floors!!!!!!!!

sssshhh...not everyday...only once in a blue moon........its the secret of my good health..........

Your son seems to be very sensible.What with their sedantory jobs, nowadays, boys themselves feel the lack of exercise and behave this way.

I have been on several foreign package tours and there as you know these lifts and escalators can be seen at every nook and corner. My movement was quite restricted as I used to wait for someone else to be there in these contraptions whenever I felt the need to use them!

True Udayrao.But it is highly commendable if you are going to adopt this strategy up to 5 floors.

Oh Sorry. Do you have a knee problem , something that needs surgery? Hope you get well soon.Sorry for the late comment.

Actually I stay in the first floor and there is no lift in my compound at all.I meant it for shops and other complexes.Thsi is also a rare thing for me and I opt for te lift because thee are no stairs but only an escalator here at the relevant sections.

Hi Vandana! Sit on a chair and keep your legs stretched while you are relaxing [as a rule];You will find some improvement in your knees.

Actually as I had mentioned I live on the first floor and there is no lift ehre. I have to climb the stairs whether I like it or not.But when I go some people's places where the lift is good I choose this.THanks for the participation.

That is a wise course of action.

sorry for forgetting to delete the tags, really absent minded eh....

You like climbing stairs too and that is very good for you if you have no gasping problems. Thanks alot for the participation and sorry for the late comment. CLimbign two or three stiars at a time is strenuous.I have climbed up the stairs of select temples and itwould be quite tough on the legs.

Oh I get tired and I have to take a break for a couple of seconds when I get to the second or third landing, but then I still keep on since I cannot go back downstairs. Of course, the reverse way is much easier. I am not exactly skinny, far from it, but I am rather solidly built. However I did not lose any weight that way. Darn it.

Oh dear ! Sorry for the late comment and it is rather painful to manage with a brace. Doctors sometimes give such idiotic diagnosis; you won' believe it Hatley! In theyear 2000, I was on my way to Nagpur and stopped midway at my sister's place in Tamil Nadu. It was an onward journey with one day halt at my sister's place because I had to attend some family function. Suddenly I could not open my mouth and it was a very peculiar symptom.THe doctor saw me and diagnosed it to be a'locked jaw' and he said that it will be cured in course of time. I took the train still suffering from that 'locked jaw' and by the time I reached Nagpur [nearly 17 hours by train]I was in bad shape[starving and face all puffed up]. It was subsequently an attack of mumps.This just by way of diversion. I feel that if cut our sugar intake our weight may be under better control.I am putting on weight and have a sweet tooth.I try and exercise restraint.[as far as possible ]

Sorry for the late comment.Your response scares me because I had a knee problem earlier and also have varicose veins. Now I am putting on weight, my legs are like tree trunks and i need to reduce.

Hi Kiran! I thought you were living in your ancestral home and naturally assumed that it would be a single independent construction where you would have a a garden. I am sure you have a tap and a hosepipe there upstairs or do you keep lifting buckets of water? Bombay is indeed lovely when it rains but it is great if we don't go out during very heavy rains.You won't believe it --it takes a person 45 minutes to get an autorickshaw from the station to here because the drivers are all unwilling to come to our area.Traveling time is 20 minutes.

Kala, the weather is lovely here too except on the days when the rain stops and immediately it heats up.Thankfully such days are rare now....kala, our ancestoral home is 4 kms away from my own home and it is surrounded by paddy fields, small hills etc; but we have our own house in the city, am uploading a recent pic my daughter took from the terrace, though you cannot actually see the house, it is the mango tree, the driveway and part of the bedroom balcony that is visible ....have a nice day kala

I do. But when I go to some malls or complexes where the stairs look deserted I tend to use the lift.THnaks for the response.

Welcome to the forum alth124.

For me it depends on were the lift is situated. I generally would prefer to use the stirs because if something happens I wouldn't get stuck anywhere.