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Ooh, I can use my mostly dead icon! Its been a while.
So things are going fantastically on the Savella. I have -no- side effects on it, it feels very natural. I have TONS of energy still, too! I've been swing dancing and snowboarding, and doing both to the point of exhaustion, and feeling fine the next day. In fact, I frequently don't GET to a point of exhaustion.. I just keep feeling great all night until its time to go home! I do notice that I've got less stamina than I would like, but I'm slowly increasing that, little by little.
I finally went back to physical therapy, for hte first time since christmas. Two months without it and I didn't need it!!! I went back because I'd tweaked my back a little at swing dancing, and just wanted to get everything back in shape before going to Stratton with my dad.
Well it looks like I'll need to go to PT again, because OH MAN did I kill myself on mountain! My first trip up to the top, there was a ton of fog that killed visibility. In the middle of a turn, the snow suddenly dropped out from under me, and I went down hard and slammed the back of my head into the ground. Took me a bit to recover from that... thank bob for helmets or I would have been concussed! As it was I thought I had gotten a concussion, but it turned out the reason I couldn't see was because my glasses had been ripped off :)
Despite falling - which compressed everything on my right side noticably and was pretty painful - I managed to keep going all day, and eventually the pain wore off because I was having so much fun. We were among the first people to get there shortly after the mountain opened, and were among the last to leave after they closed. Pretty incredible to me that I would have that kind of stamina!! This is why I LOVE this drug, I never would have been able to do that before.
This morning, I'm in pain though. NOT fibro pain, which is fantastic! But its because I fell.. my neck is out of whack, as are my shoulders, and my leg... so i need to stretch and go to PT just to fix this up. Hopefully I can get an appointment before Thursday, so I don't have to skip swing this week! This pain is annoying, actually, because I don't have the accompanying fatigue I'm so used to with fibro... I'm still hyper, it just hurts to do anything. Ha ha ha this must be what it feels like to be normal!!!
So things are going fantastically on the Savella. I have -no- side effects on it, it feels very natural. I have TONS of energy still, too! I've been swing dancing and snowboarding, and doing both to the point of exhaustion, and feeling fine the next day. In fact, I frequently don't GET to a point of exhaustion.. I just keep feeling great all night until its time to go home! I do notice that I've got less stamina than I would like, but I'm slowly increasing that, little by little.
I finally went back to physical therapy, for hte first time since christmas. Two months without it and I didn't need it!!! I went back because I'd tweaked my back a little at swing dancing, and just wanted to get everything back in shape before going to Stratton with my dad.
Well it looks like I'll need to go to PT again, because OH MAN did I kill myself on mountain! My first trip up to the top, there was a ton of fog that killed visibility. In the middle of a turn, the snow suddenly dropped out from under me, and I went down hard and slammed the back of my head into the ground. Took me a bit to recover from that... thank bob for helmets or I would have been concussed! As it was I thought I had gotten a concussion, but it turned out the reason I couldn't see was because my glasses had been ripped off :)
Despite falling - which compressed everything on my right side noticably and was pretty painful - I managed to keep going all day, and eventually the pain wore off because I was having so much fun. We were among the first people to get there shortly after the mountain opened, and were among the last to leave after they closed. Pretty incredible to me that I would have that kind of stamina!! This is why I LOVE this drug, I never would have been able to do that before.
This morning, I'm in pain though. NOT fibro pain, which is fantastic! But its because I fell.. my neck is out of whack, as are my shoulders, and my leg... so i need to stretch and go to PT just to fix this up. Hopefully I can get an appointment before Thursday, so I don't have to skip swing this week! This pain is annoying, actually, because I don't have the accompanying fatigue I'm so used to with fibro... I'm still hyper, it just hurts to do anything. Ha ha ha this must be what it feels like to be normal!!!