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lifting_heavy_things2011-10-16 11:47 am
untonuggan) wrote in lifting_heavy_things2011-10-16 11:47 am
Back in the saddle again! (plus a slight rant about health)
I was doing really, really well with strength training that I learned in physical therapy for fairly incapacitating bursitis and a torn rotator cuff. (Neither is fun, hope that you don't have to deal with them.) Learned how to ride a bike, was up to 3 lb ankle weights, a 3-13 lb free weights, and the blue resistance band (mine go yellow, green, red, blue, purple). Totally psyched at how "able" I felt - I went hiking! - given that I have fibromyalgia and other dis/ability crap.
Then the fates grinned cruelly at me and gave me unexplained dizziness that started when I was doing cardio (oh yeah, I was also doing cardio). Oh dear, the doctors and specialists said, it might be the heat. Drink gatorade. Or maybe it was my heart. Stop doing cardio. Or maybe it was benign positional vertigo that I got from leaning over an exercise ball (I think that explanation for BPV is ridiculous, btw, and that particular doctor an idiot). And on and on, so I followed their advice and stopped doing my exercises temporarily.
I was rewarded with (1) an increase in migraines, (2) a decrease in strength, (3) an increase in pain. Frell.
After a long and annoying summer, I basically decided to just deal with the dizziness if it came up while exercising because no one had shown anything serious.
I am proud to say that a lot of my muscle tone has come back, and I'm up to using weights again. (Started out with no weights so I wouldn't injure myself.) I'm back to the yellow resistance band, but hey, everyone has to start somewhere.
Cardio is trickier because I really do get dizzy, plus I now have plantar fasciitis. Joy.
But I'm back in the saddle again!
Then the fates grinned cruelly at me and gave me unexplained dizziness that started when I was doing cardio (oh yeah, I was also doing cardio). Oh dear, the doctors and specialists said, it might be the heat. Drink gatorade. Or maybe it was my heart. Stop doing cardio. Or maybe it was benign positional vertigo that I got from leaning over an exercise ball (I think that explanation for BPV is ridiculous, btw, and that particular doctor an idiot). And on and on, so I followed their advice and stopped doing my exercises temporarily.
I was rewarded with (1) an increase in migraines, (2) a decrease in strength, (3) an increase in pain. Frell.
After a long and annoying summer, I basically decided to just deal with the dizziness if it came up while exercising because no one had shown anything serious.
I am proud to say that a lot of my muscle tone has come back, and I'm up to using weights again. (Started out with no weights so I wouldn't injure myself.) I'm back to the yellow resistance band, but hey, everyone has to start somewhere.
Cardio is trickier because I really do get dizzy, plus I now have plantar fasciitis. Joy.
But I'm back in the saddle again!
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Sorry to hear you have to deal with them too!