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Oh no... :( I'm a little bit down.
I've been having a pain in my left leg for some time now. It came on last summer when I was on a health kick and running regularly. Well, this pain in my calf became so severe that I had to stop. Then, this year when I started to Valet a few months ago, the pain came back much stronger. Eventually, it traveled into my right leg and by the end of a work night, I'm in great pain and literaly limping around.
To make a long story short, I saw an Orthopedic Specialist today. He told me I have "stress fractures" in both of my legs. It like a hairline crack inside the bone and it wont show up on an X-ray or MRI (which I found out the hard way because I've already had both of those tests done and they didn't help me at all. The X-ray was $20 and the MRI was $600 after my insurance). He told me I CAN'T run. I have to quit my job as it requires me to run. I need to stay off my feet as much as possible and if I do any exercises they must be low impact things. But, he didn't recommend anything that has me exercising on my feet, such as ski machine, elliptical thing, running of coarse...... None of those things. The part I'm most sad about is that I can't attend anymore of my Aikido classes for some time. Maybe 6 months to 1 year.... That seems like an eternity :(
I've been having a pain in my left leg for some time now. It came on last summer when I was on a health kick and running regularly. Well, this pain in my calf became so severe that I had to stop. Then, this year when I started to Valet a few months ago, the pain came back much stronger. Eventually, it traveled into my right leg and by the end of a work night, I'm in great pain and literaly limping around.
To make a long story short, I saw an Orthopedic Specialist today. He told me I have "stress fractures" in both of my legs. It like a hairline crack inside the bone and it wont show up on an X-ray or MRI (which I found out the hard way because I've already had both of those tests done and they didn't help me at all. The X-ray was $20 and the MRI was $600 after my insurance). He told me I CAN'T run. I have to quit my job as it requires me to run. I need to stay off my feet as much as possible and if I do any exercises they must be low impact things. But, he didn't recommend anything that has me exercising on my feet, such as ski machine, elliptical thing, running of coarse...... None of those things. The part I'm most sad about is that I can't attend anymore of my Aikido classes for some time. Maybe 6 months to 1 year.... That seems like an eternity :(