This model needs a recall

[clevermanka]

Because I just don't have enough wrong with my body!

I've been having weird hip pain issues for about a week and a half. It got really bad at the end of last week, so I scheduled an appointment with my rolfer, Risa, for Tuesday (it was the earliest she could get me in). Well. It appears likely that I am bordering on having sciatica. I had wondered about this, because the pain I was experiencing was suspiciously similar to what I've heard about sciatic nerve pain, but I thought that couldn't be it because I had it in both sides. Well, it seems one can have sciatica on both sides if one is very very special, and we all know how very special I am, don't we?

*sigh*

Risa worked on me from my ankles to my ribs for over ninety minutes and wow, some of those rubs were intense. Especially on my left hip (which I noticed, doing dance drills, was sitting a little higher). She also commented on how my calves looked really tight, and I remembered complaining to mckitterick about my crazy stiff calves the week before the hip pain started. It's all connected!

When I got home I researched yoga poses to try and yoga poses to avoid. Basically, it's All Restorative Postures All The Time for at least a week, maybe longer, except for a very few poses that are invigorating to that particular area (Locust pose being one). Once the pain is gone, I can try some basic seated poses and twists. No standing poses, though, and absolutely no forward bends--especially seated forward bends--for a long time. Like two months of a long time. Craziness.

I'm still having a fair amount of discomfort, and I can't sit for more than fifteen minutes. Which makes my desk job even more awesome than it usually is. I rotate between sitting, kneeling (thankfully, I have a pillow here), crouching, and then walking around Wescoe. Twice a day, I'll take a longer walk outside. The only time my hips don't ache is when I'm lying on my stomach, which makes my neck and lower back hurt.

Annoyingly, my recently re-revved exercising has been put on hiatus for a week, and the intensity will have to be cut back when I do return. This is not what I wanted to hear fewer than three months out from KCRF. So so so frustrating.

Comments

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

I know this type of pain intimately. I am so sorry you're having to deal with it. It is truly horrid. Trying to do an office job with sciatic nerve pain is next to impossible. People who have never experienced it simply cannot understand.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Boo, I didn't know you had it, too. Suxxor.

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

I had a herniated disc when I was twenty-four (the lowest disc in my spine). I was down for three months. My right hip was jacked up, and I had nerve pain in my buttocks, hips, and low back, which would shoot down both legs all the way to my feet. Nerve pain SUCKS. To my knowledge, no opioid, NSAID, or muscle relaxer can touch it. Various kinds of physical therapies, though, have been helpful in my experience.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

To my knowledge, no opioid, NSAID, or muscle relaxer can touch it.

That would be why the ibuprofen I took this morning didn't do shit. Maybe it'll help with the muscle swelling that's causing the nerve pain, though--eventually? Maybe? *sigh*

Also, your icon for this is perfect.

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

Maybe it'll help with the muscle swelling that's causing the nerve pain, though--eventually?

That sounds like a possibility. It's worth a try.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

The shit is really dumping on you. Hopefully this means that you will have an excess of rainbows and luck when this is all over. *hugs*

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I would very much appreciate some rainbows and luck, yes, thanks.

At this point, though, I just have to laugh at every new ailment. I'm a caricature/stereotype of That Sick Girl/Girl Who Is Allergic To Everything. Good times!

[miischelle.livejournal.com]

If we lived closer, we could go on long walks together!
Would sitting on a yoga ball help? Or do you already do that?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I already sit on a ball half the day, yup!

I can't tell you how often I've thought "If M only lived closer..." =/

[bluetourmaline.livejournal.com]

Ugh, my enormous sympathies (I still sometimes get sciatic nerve pain. On either side.) Wish I could recommend something.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Poor thing. Sorry to hear you suffer, too, but it's comforting to know I'm in good company.

[annamatic.livejournal.com]

AAAIEE. I had sciatica when I was pregnant, and deal with chronic back and shoulder pain: the burning, stabby kind that radiates all the way up and feels like a burning, exposed filament has been inserted alongside my backbone and neck. And migraines too. I am SO sorry you're going through this! It sucks SO bad.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Mine isn't quite that bad yet. *crosses fingers* Here's hoping I caught it in time and the exercises work.

[annamatic.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too! Mine's only intermittent, so there's that, thank God, because if it were constant I think I'd be crazy, lol.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

No kidding. The idea of extreme chronic pain terrifies me.