Ow.

[whiteadelphi]

So apparently my neck has taken over for my ankles in the fuck you over just because stakes.  This has gotta be like... the sixth or seventh time in the past few years I've managed to pull a muscle just by turning my head.  You know.  The way I turn it on a regular basis.  So now I am doomed to walk around like a zombie for the next day or two because any fast movement hurts like hell.  Thanks so much.

In other news, the double shin splints I was getting have now shifted into more disturbing land, because now I only suffer them in the left leg.  ...and how.  It starts out as shin splints and turns into molten lava somewhere along the way.  Along with having half the foot and two leftmost toes go to sleep if I do any high impact exercise.  Along with occasional streaks of pain across the top of my foot just because.  (Not particularly painful, but the sort of pain that makes you go "Ow.  Ow. Ow.  Ow.  Quit that!")

So I suppose I should go see a physio or something.  On that future, mythical day when I have the money to do so.

Until then, I am carving DDR out of my lifestyle and taking more long walks instead.  Even if they turn into long hobbles halfway through.  Hell, if I'm lucky the problem will eventually fix itself.

...

I wonder if it's not that I'm unlucky and more than I'm getting old. >_>

Comments

[aliasheist.livejournal.com]

So uh, hello from the Northern Hemisphere for the first time in, like, years.

I have one word for you, and it is this: stretching.

I'm spending a singularly ridiculous amount of time trying to off myself at the gym and outside on the walking/running trail lately, 'cause I just started to train for a 5K in October, and I gave myself shin splints sooo bad, and I have a persistent injury of mother-of-god levels of pain in my left calf when a loading dock pallet fell on me. So. Between that and having a pretty decently never-ending case of tendonitis I feel like it might be useful to recommend stretching daily.

I don't go to bed and wake up in so much pain I wanna die when I've done some simple stretching after any vague kind of exercising, and god knows I have no idea if you do already, please feel free to give me a look like I'm ridiculous, because fer cryin' out loud, you probably know this and are probably doing this already, and this is not new information.

Beyond that, there's the usual alternating hot and cold, and always taking more frequent breaks, because doing anything that is vaguely repetitive at any kind of stretch wreaks havoc on the body. Humans are, so I'm learning, designed more for sprints of activity than marathons. Good luck, and hope you feel better!

[kokoronagomu.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's nasty to get old. after a bout of depression when i don't do much at all and then start to get moving i hurt horribly. the key is to keep moving even a little and to gradually build up to more and more movement. ...and everything that was suggested above.

feel better *hugs*

[vasillis-childe.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! I remembered my password!

Hey. How you doin? It's late, I'm bored, I can't sleep, and I haven't said hi for ages. You may not remember me. I'm Kylan. If you don't remember me, I'm an incredibly handsome young man who you lusted after for years.

I've got no relevant contact details, so consider this a formal greeting. To others reading this, greetings to you also. Except you. Yes. You. You know what you did.

[whiteadelphi.livejournal.com]

Oh, that incredibly handsome young man? Long time no see! Except for that one time. In May.

...I'm trying to work out why you replied to an entry all the way back in June, but HELLO PROF. HOW ARE YOU DOING.