Sunday, 29 July 2012
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Magnesium deficiency
Ok so after weeks of being in pain and my muscle not improving, have been looking for why. I now think I'm deficient in magnesium. Thus article says all about it.
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Friday, 13 July 2012
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.
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.
Still in pain
Unfortunately my progress and well being has taken a turn for the worse again. I think I did too much on Wed, and buy wed night I really wasn't feeling good at all. I went to bed early, but by early hours of the morning I was in agony again. :(
I was very depressed and despondent at my backward steps. Which wasn't helped by work unsympathetically phoning up wanting to to know when i was coming back to work and that I was ok to do the shift this Sat (that had apparently been arranged in my absence and I actually had no idea about!) I was also told I was supposed to be working all day Monday. I told them no I couldn't do those shifts and would try to make it back for Wed.
But the way I'm feeling now, and with the way my progress is going, and the way they've treated me I think I might actually take the whole month off.
I just ended up spending the whole day in bed. I think it actually did me some good as altho I was stiff when I got up when Patrick got home, I was in less pain. However come this morning at 4 my leg was in agony again and I ended up taking the very strong painkillers. Which knocked me out until 6 when there were cats fighting outside so I took some diazepam in the end to help me sleep. I did end up getting some sleep, but I now think the visitors wore me out.
I've had a blinding headache all evening and I've no idea why. I also feel sick so I don't know if it's the beginning of a migraine. I don't know whether it's the painkillers I'm taking or if there is something else underlying that's stopping me getting better.
The back/ bottom pain has actually got a lot better. Inflammation is almost not existent, but the leg pain has got worse. And the thing that gets me is that there is no reason for it. If it is the muscle inflammation causing the nerve pain, as the muscles ease, surely so should the nerve? Not get worse. To me it makes no sense so it makes me question what I have.
All I know is I just feel rubbish physically and mentally. I'm even feverish at times. Today I was like an ice block, yesterday I was like furnace!
Going to try to get some sleep now. Patrick is still in the other room as he's dead on his feet, and I'm going to probably be very restless. But at least he has 2 days off now to recover.
Anyway I'll update you on my progress hopefully I'll have some good news to report soon.
I was very depressed and despondent at my backward steps. Which wasn't helped by work unsympathetically phoning up wanting to to know when i was coming back to work and that I was ok to do the shift this Sat (that had apparently been arranged in my absence and I actually had no idea about!) I was also told I was supposed to be working all day Monday. I told them no I couldn't do those shifts and would try to make it back for Wed.
But the way I'm feeling now, and with the way my progress is going, and the way they've treated me I think I might actually take the whole month off.
I just ended up spending the whole day in bed. I think it actually did me some good as altho I was stiff when I got up when Patrick got home, I was in less pain. However come this morning at 4 my leg was in agony again and I ended up taking the very strong painkillers. Which knocked me out until 6 when there were cats fighting outside so I took some diazepam in the end to help me sleep. I did end up getting some sleep, but I now think the visitors wore me out.
I've had a blinding headache all evening and I've no idea why. I also feel sick so I don't know if it's the beginning of a migraine. I don't know whether it's the painkillers I'm taking or if there is something else underlying that's stopping me getting better.
The back/ bottom pain has actually got a lot better. Inflammation is almost not existent, but the leg pain has got worse. And the thing that gets me is that there is no reason for it. If it is the muscle inflammation causing the nerve pain, as the muscles ease, surely so should the nerve? Not get worse. To me it makes no sense so it makes me question what I have.
All I know is I just feel rubbish physically and mentally. I'm even feverish at times. Today I was like an ice block, yesterday I was like furnace!
Going to try to get some sleep now. Patrick is still in the other room as he's dead on his feet, and I'm going to probably be very restless. But at least he has 2 days off now to recover.
Anyway I'll update you on my progress hopefully I'll have some good news to report soon.
Saturday, 7 July 2012
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