My body is full of hate...or something.
Ugh.
After the whole thing with the back brace throwing my whole back into spasm, I saw someone in the same-day clinic at my doctor's office. She was very nice and gave me exactly what I came in asking for - a muscle relaxant and another trip to physical therapy. Yesterday was my first day of physical therapy, and things are Not Good. I think it's partly that we were just a bit too aggressive. What happened is that the edge of one of the rigid parts in the brace seems to have caused a tension issue with the paraspinal muscles between T7 and T9 (so starting roughly even with the bottom of my shoulder blades and extending down two vertebrae). That meant that most of what needed to be done was mobilizing the vertebrae, which is uncomfortable at best when things work up this tight.
Unfortunately, this is not an 'at best' situation. The other part of the issue right now is that my autoimmune thing is continuing to get worse, including in my spine. I don't know if I'm just developing a tolerance to prednisone very fast indeed (which is totally a possibility - I develop tolerances extremely quickly, and to medications that most people don't, like stomach acid medications and non steroidal anti-inflammatories and I'm spacing on the other weird one I acclimate to), or if my immune system is just attacking harder. I feel like I may be starting to come down with a cold, so it's also possible that I caught something and THAT is what's making things worse. Anyhow, the primary places this stuff affects are my hands and my back, so it's adding to the problem. I feel like shit. I don't have time for this. I couldn't make it to class tonight because I didn't think I could sit in the car for long enough to go to school without being in screaming pain.
Stupid body. Why do you treat me like this?
After the whole thing with the back brace throwing my whole back into spasm, I saw someone in the same-day clinic at my doctor's office. She was very nice and gave me exactly what I came in asking for - a muscle relaxant and another trip to physical therapy. Yesterday was my first day of physical therapy, and things are Not Good. I think it's partly that we were just a bit too aggressive. What happened is that the edge of one of the rigid parts in the brace seems to have caused a tension issue with the paraspinal muscles between T7 and T9 (so starting roughly even with the bottom of my shoulder blades and extending down two vertebrae). That meant that most of what needed to be done was mobilizing the vertebrae, which is uncomfortable at best when things work up this tight.
Unfortunately, this is not an 'at best' situation. The other part of the issue right now is that my autoimmune thing is continuing to get worse, including in my spine. I don't know if I'm just developing a tolerance to prednisone very fast indeed (which is totally a possibility - I develop tolerances extremely quickly, and to medications that most people don't, like stomach acid medications and non steroidal anti-inflammatories and I'm spacing on the other weird one I acclimate to), or if my immune system is just attacking harder. I feel like I may be starting to come down with a cold, so it's also possible that I caught something and THAT is what's making things worse. Anyhow, the primary places this stuff affects are my hands and my back, so it's adding to the problem. I feel like shit. I don't have time for this. I couldn't make it to class tonight because I didn't think I could sit in the car for long enough to go to school without being in screaming pain.
Stupid body. Why do you treat me like this?