On Wednesday, I made a terrible mistake, and I am still paying for it.
The elevators in my building were not working, and thanks to being in manic mode, I started to panic about not being able to pick up my brother or take out the garbage.
So I made the mistake of taking the stairs down.
Wednesday, I didn't really feel it, but by Thursday, I was in serious pain, and my left leg simply wouldn't work properly.
Since then the pain has gone down, but I am still struggling to stand, walk, or straighten my leg.
I am also having pain in my stomach muscles and back, as I have put more strain on those areas trying to keep moving and do all the things I need to do.
Ah, well, perhaps I have learned and wont make that mistake again . . .
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Madeline Anafrid
Madeline Anafrid Bell
We >so< gotta steal Facebook's "Sad" reaction ...
Ye-ouch.
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Yeah. Panic can make us do >very< strange (as judged later, or by outsider) things.
One Vietnam vet I heard about was startled into a flashback, and tried to hide behind a >button<.
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I'm with Maddy, on exercise, and work on your cardiovascular reserves,
But.
>Check with your doctor and then go with what they recommend.<
Meanwhile, non-Rx painkillers, as little as is comfortable. >Do Not< go over the label maximum dose (singly or in combinations). Too high a dose damages our livers.
Also, all the muscles that hurt - "work" them gently, several/many times per day. No "load bearing" just yet, You're aiming for getting blood and fluids to be moving about, and "flushing out" fatigue poisons.
One "starter" might be: (Ask doc) Go up only one flight of stairs, then take elevator back home. Later, walk up one flight, then down. Up first, because it's harder; then use your remaining reserves to come back down.
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Some years back, I was not in good shape. In fact they had to give me cardiac rehab >before< the heart surgery [4]. At one point I could manage 4 stairs, up and down. Not flights, just four stair-steps.
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Diet is of major, even life-saving, importance. [1]
Here's one link to get you started:
https://www.pcrm.org/vegankickstart(link is external). [3]
Free program, and all info on PCRM.org is free. Please check out all of it. No gimmicks, nothing to buy [2] (unless you want a book, and remember your libraries), no 'pills, powders, potions'. No "magic" either, you have to do it. Login/sign-up is also free, and you will get several weeks of "assist" e-mails.
My tagline is:
"Satisfaction guaranteed, or your old health back."
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Let building management know about this, and that you need to be on a lower/lowest floor as soon as available.
[1] One half of the people in USA will sicken and >die< early from bad "food". One million this year, every year ...
[2] Well, we do have to buy food anyways. Why not decent, healthy, wholesome food. I can't even find a place to buy "PCRM-brand" food. We have to go to our grocery stores and choose wisely.
[3] I've taken a PCRM-endorsed/derived cooking class. Tasty stuff. Except that kale is >still< on probation.
[4] Being 8-1/2 years vegan might have saved my life >during< cardiac surgery, Per my cardiac surgeon, "no evidence of cardiovascular disease".
So they didn't have spend any time to to stent, or bypass, or use a "Roto-Rooter" on my coronary arteries. Shorter surgery, less time under anesthesia, less time on (I assume) a heart-lung machine, less time to 'throw' micro-clots into my brain, maybe even less donor blood.