My advice: just don't give up. I've been in PT twice. Once the therapist told me I would never run again and should just begin thinking of myself as a walker. I laugh at that every time I run eight miles. Every other day. With the other, therapy stopped months before I stopped hurting. But I did the exercises every day until I was better.
I don't know about your condition, but with expert advice, and LOTS of time, I'm betting you'll beat this condition.
I'm so, so glad that you're working on treatment. (The person I introduced you to this morning was the very first person I ever had a detailed conversation about RSI that included them saying 'well, I don't do anything about it unless there's an unusual level of pain,' and my eyes bugging out at the fact that this meant that they were routinely ignoring levels of pain just because they were always like that and omigod, omigod, ai ai ai that's how these things become chronic debilitating problems!
Sorry. Um, touched a nerve, as it were. Anyway, I'm really glad you're pursuing treatment.
Yeah, that's just what I was doing. I had my head in the sand.
The pain levels and frequency only crossed over to "unmanageably bad" this year. I still put off treatment because I was busy. Then I was suddenly not-busy (laid off) but needed to wait for insurance to straighten itself out first. By the time it was straightened, I had started a very busy short-term job.... and and and...
I actually managed several months in a row this year where pain was an occasional thing more than a way of life, but I've slipped on some of my self-care in the last few months. Thanks for the reminder to get back to it.
I can very much see how easy it is to slip out of self-care when there's So Much World to experience, and dammit, the world expects you to have fully functional hands.
Instead, there're so many little things I don't get to do. And I could be doing them now if I'd nipped this when it first arose.
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I don't know about your condition, but with expert advice, and LOTS of time, I'm betting you'll beat this condition.
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(The person I introduced you to this morning was the very first person I ever had a detailed conversation about RSI that included them saying 'well, I don't do anything about it unless there's an unusual level of pain,' and my eyes bugging out at the fact that this meant that they were routinely ignoring levels of pain just because they were always like that and omigod, omigod, ai ai ai that's how these things become chronic debilitating problems!
Sorry. Um, touched a nerve, as it were.
Anyway, I'm really glad you're pursuing treatment.
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The pain levels and frequency only crossed over to "unmanageably bad" this year. I still put off treatment because I was busy. Then I was suddenly not-busy (laid off) but needed to wait for insurance to straighten itself out first. By the time it was straightened, I had started a very busy short-term job.... and and and...
No more compromises. Treatment first, rest first.
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*baffled*
I actually managed several months in a row this year where pain was an occasional thing more than a way of life, but I've slipped on some of my self-care in the last few months. Thanks for the reminder to get back to it.
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Instead, there're so many little things I don't get to do. And I could be doing them now if I'd nipped this when it first arose.
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