Excellent physio

On tuesday I had my first appointment with the nhs physio. To my surprise physio was actually wonderful! I was able to be up for the rest of the day!

She didn't do much, but was very good at her job, knew what she was talking about and seemed experienced. And most of all understood what I was going through. She gave me a few very light exercises(stretches) to do that seem so simple you wouldn't think there would be any benefit, but it's made a huge difference.

She's told me to exercise my right side, because even tho the pain is on the left the nerves are still connected so it will ease the pain.

She also explained all about the hot and cold thing which all makes sense. I pretty much knew everything just hadn't been able to put the sentence together in my mind for it to click into place. I had previously been so confused about whether to use hot or cold. Everybody said different things.

She said to put heat on to relax the muscles, before doing any movement. Once the muscles are relaxed to then do the stretches. Then afterwards to ease any inflammation to put the cold on it afterwards. Simple!

Anyway it really has worked wonders. It's so nice to just to be taken seriously that it has improved my mental state too.

I'm trying to take as little painkillers as possible. Feeling that they could be affecting my thyroid meds and mental state and therefore causing more pain, or at least the ability to cope with pain.

Anyway the great news is I haven't taken any painkillers since 11:30tuesday morning! It felt bad this morning when I woke up but I took my t3 as normal, put on some biofreeze gel and now it's just normal pain! :)))) I can cope with normal pain!

I've had a few other set backs in other areas today. Without going into detail my bowels have been playing up with hasn't been easy with a bad back! And I lost half of my vision! Something I've had before, normally leads to a migraine, but its very frustrating because i just cant read! I only see half a sentence! But it's all back to normal now! Hence me being able to write this.

The blog was actually written Tuesday but only just getting round to posting it today, Friday.