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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 16, 2021 16:36:51 GMT
Have you done any exercises like standing on the bottom step in barefeet, with just the ball of your feet and toes on the step and arching/lifting/pushing/pulling yourself up by extending your feet from your toes/feet/arches upward? yes, and that does help. the whole thing is getting me down, Gav. if i don't get back to running again by the end of next week, i don't know what i'll do.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 16, 2021 16:40:12 GMT
Have you done any exercises like standing on the bottom step in barefeet, with just the ball of your feet and toes on the step and arching/lifting/pushing/pulling yourself up by extending your feet from your toes/feet/arches upward? yes, and that does help. the whole thing is getting me down, Gav. if i don't get back to running again by the end of next week, i don't know what i'll do. Don't rush this, maybe just walk your normal running route.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 16, 2021 16:42:28 GMT
yes, and that does help. the whole thing is getting me down, Gav. if i don't get back to running again by the end of next week, i don't know what i'll do. Don't rush this, maybe just walk your normal running route. i'm going to cycle, but it won't give me the same buzz as running.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 27, 2021 19:24:25 GMT
update:
last week i made the mistake of going out for a run before the plantar fasciitis had healed fully.
i felt fine during the run but afterwards when i was walking, the pain returned.
i've been wearing some STRAPPING this week to ease the pain, along with the INSOLES. i've also been applying ice and gently massaging the knots out of my foot.
today it has been feeling much better, but i'm not going to rush it. besides, i've ordered some new bluetooth headphones to listen to my PODCASTS while running, which are due to arrive on saturday.
if things continue to improve, i will gingerly try and run 5km on monday.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 29, 2021 20:03:43 GMT
it's still playing up! when will this pain ever end?
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 29, 2021 20:04:23 GMT
You need meat, lad.
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Post by loveless on Nov 5, 2021 0:27:57 GMT
I'm dropping a lot into this, so...I really don't mind if you scroll and click away.
I developed a real serious lower back pinched nerve/pulled muscle kind of ailment about 6 weeks ago. Like...initially, I kind of shrugged it off like "a small ache/pain that I don't really need to accommodate, it'll be gone tomorrow" sort of thing (to be fair, I'd never really had any sort of lingering physical maladies before, but...I'm 51, and - by all accounts - I was well behind schedule).
So, I didn't really treat it seriously...I was about to go off and play a series of gigs, and my wife was kind of firmly in her own world, so I (begrudgingly) did all of this heavy lifting (laundry up and down stairs, garbage and recycling out, cat litter boxes and groceries in from the car) that I really should have probably explicitly asked for help with. I got so stiff (go on...) on stage the first night that I could barely climb down the little rickety wooden stairs stageside after our set, and me going back up there to retrieve my amp was 100% out of the question. My feeling was that I would have to leave it at the venue for the rest of our lives unless someone pulled it off stage (luckily we were opening for the Psychedelic Furs so it probably wasn't going to be allowed to stay up there all night). Next night pretty rough, a lot of solicited help, bandmates and local crew going above and beyond, some icy hot on the afflicted area, Advil, water, early bed, agonizing gig (there's pictures of the guitarist jumping up in the air and me just sort of sympathetically "rocking out" in solidarity on terra firma). Few days off, doctor prescribed steroids and muscle relaxers, an expensive massage, yoga, lots of rest and...then back into a week of rehearsals for another event (standing up for hours glued to a mic, playing guitar, working footpedals...fucking agonizing). Another important gig in sheer misery. By now it has migrated down to left leg/calf. The word "sciatic" is being used constantly.
All these weeks later (still gigging, rehearsing), it's just kind of annoying and nagging, and fatiguing when I have to stand for any real length of time. More or less exclusively my back leg/the joint behind my knee...Advil helps a bit. I'm at the point where if my doctor suggested something habit forming (I'll see him on Monday), I'd take him up on it.
Now...I have a theory. My sister died right before I went into busy season (there was a three gig weekend that preceded two days off and then the two shows with the Furs), and simultaneously my stepdad was emailing me and my brother some fairly concerning news about my mother's fairly sudden and rapid decline (this had started in the spring). All of this instilling in me a certain sense of helpless guilt. Could I have done anything to keep my sister alive (I couldn't have - she had major organ issues), why couldn't I do more for my mom (we are broke, and normally, with medical issues, pulling out the checkbook is probably the only real thing one can do). Mom died the other day, and to hear my stepdad tell it, she was VERY ready to check out (I think her cognitive decline had been - as I say - sudden and rapid). But...there's all sorts of survivor's guilt. Who loves you more than your mother and your big sister? Who has done more for you? Ever? And...to feel that surely I had some means to affect these outcomes (when I don't rationally believe that I really did) creates this feeling of "a type of helplessness that hurts others". I can't prove it in any scientific way, but...I'm convinced that all of this internal despair has manifested as physical discomfort.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 5, 2021 0:40:55 GMT
Loveless, sorry about all the sorrow you are living through, and yes, somatic responses are very valid.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Nov 5, 2021 6:07:34 GMT
sorry to hear about your losses and pain, loveless.
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Post by harrylemon on Nov 5, 2021 9:52:45 GMT
Sorry for your losses. Take care of yourself.
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Post by rayge on Nov 5, 2021 10:15:19 GMT
Sorry to hear this, John. I know from experience that grief can be physically, as well as emotionally, painful.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 5, 2021 10:40:07 GMT
I know that B has had bouts of sciatic nerve pain during periods of high stress, so I don't doubt for a minute that all the grief and sorrow you're experiencing can have that effect. I wish you'd steer clear of the opioids, but you've got to do what's best right now. I'm sorry to hear about your mom and sis - that's awful news. Take care, man.
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Post by oh oooh on Nov 5, 2021 10:44:05 GMT
Jesus, John, it really does sound like you've been through a lot, I'm so sorry. Grief can really take its toll on the body, as Ray says, especially losing people so close to you and especially when you feel so helpless. Time really does help to heal emotional wounds - I hope physically you feel better soon, too.
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Post by souphound on Nov 5, 2021 18:41:31 GMT
Can't really add anything, but be sure you have my sympathy and best wishes. I also wish you some very comfortable and restful sleep. That can really help to deal with frustrations which also for sure helps with climbing physical walls.
Stay young.
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Post by loveless on Nov 6, 2021 2:06:04 GMT
That's it, isn't it? I mean, there is a certain kind of "old man middle aged distress" (ailments, more frequent bereavements, "general existential shit") that probably COULD fossilize a person if they didn't react with some vigilance. None of the individual woes are horribly unique, but...right, if they hit you from a certain angle at just the right moment... I really appreciate all of the kindness and warmth from everyone. I'd been tempted to keep a lot of this stuff just...you know, family...need to know basis...but somehow that seemed like its own form of bad medicine.
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