Well, I went to see my pain doctor this week, and had lots of lousy news. Apparently, my PT hasn't been following her instructions per the prescription-- which specifically tells them I need mostly stretching and deep tissue massage. Instead, they've been doing lots of cardio and strength training, which isn't hugely helpful because I do that on my own. I stretch on my own too, but not all the stretches are one-person.
Anyway, I'm going to be starting up with a new PT in 2011, in addition to yoga and acupuncture. I've tried all of these before, but am feeling good that there will be more progress.
On a more philosophically significant note, I am apparently now on so many pain pills that if I were to stop taking them, I would go into some sort of shock. I asked my regular dr. about all the pills I'm on and whether or not I should be concerned/ consider paring some out, but he got pretty nervous and told me that would be a bad idea, and told me what some of the consequences might be (i.e. shock, hospital, etc.). So that's not hugely thrilling. I got my pain pill dosages upped last week, in addition to the new medication from the week before. I've been sleeping pretty well though, so that's good news.
Hm, I wonder if hot yoga would be good, because heat is good for my condition and yoga is. Any thoughts, single reader?
What is "hot yoga"? I would have thought *any* yoga class in which you participated would have been considered such.
ReplyDeleteHa... it is very high temp with steam and stuff. I think the heat might help ^___^
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