The health and fitness thread about random things

[hellymedic]

I am stuck in hospital again😢 . I went into retention around 5.30 and as I arose from the throne my lower back went  into spasm . I managed to drag myself through the house and knock the patio doors open and woke the neighbour who called the ambulance.. So I am stuck in hospital with a cathier and rattling with pain medicine for my back  . I will be here at least overnight . bother !.

Get well soon!

Hope they get pain meds & bladder sorted PDQ!

[Ruthie]

Get well soon cycleman.

[Jurek]

Wishing you a swift recovery, C.

J

[Kim]

That's more than a bit rubbish.  Hope they're giving you the good drugs at least.

[barakta]

Ouch Cycleman! Hope they sort you out and are able to discharge you soonest!

[cycleman]

They plan to stick me into a MRI tube for a hour tomorrow before pulling the cathier out and seeing what happens 

[Cudzoziemiec]

I hope it starts getting better for you soon, Cycleman.

[Pedaldog.]

They plan to stick me into a MRI tube for a hour tomorrow before pulling the cathier out and seeing what happens 

Better than "They plan to stick an MRI tube into me for an hour......"

Get thee  Fettled Cyclemanski.

[cycleman]

Thanks everyone .they start early here tea and porridge are being served and it is still dark 

[cycleman]

And the exciting times continue . the doctor has not been round to sort out the errors in the meds they are giving me and it seems that it unlikely that I will see the inside of a tube today as it is a day of   sloth ,oh sorry I mean rest . on the bright side I have enjoyed a healthy tuna salad with a banana for pudding followed by a nice cup of tea . I wonder what exciting things will occur this afternoon ☺

[hellymedic]

Suspect little will happen if you are undistressed and they are busy dealing with Distressed Gentlefolk...

[perpetual dan]

Good luck with the tubes cycleman.

A much more minor grumble -  I seem to have been hit with the slothful "meh" stick. Miss Dan the Elder, who is a teenager and doesn't really do weekend mornings, came to tell me it was time to get up at 1215 today. 

[orejas]

Woke up on Dec 28th with severe back pain, in between the shoulderblades. Never experienced it before and cannot think of a reason ( meaning cannot recall twisting or lifting or any sort of twinge). Cannot lay flat on the bed but it gets better as the day goes on. Had a sports massage and got marinally better but had to sleep on the floor for a couple of days, now graduated to sleeping on a futon. Question is, do I bother going to the doc or do I not bother until it happens again (hopefully it does not)?

There is actually very little the doc can do.
If you can get a swiss ball then sitting on that will help.


Thanks for the replies. Saw osteopath yesterday, a bit better last night. Hopefully it keeps improving, it really only troubles me at night.
Joaquin

A basketball or football can be used for upper back. Stand back to a wall, about 1.5times ball diameter away. Place ball behind you, a little below where the pain is (say, a little less than the ball diameter). Lean on the ball. Carefully bend your knees, leaning on the ball, until the ball roll up past the painful bit. Straighten knees and repeat for a while.

I wouldn't do that in the acute phase, wait till it's calmed down a bit.  Football/basketball may be a bit big, something nearer tennis ball size and hardness tends to allow more local pressure and deeper pressure.

Also if you can find one, a physio/sports injury specialist who might be able to see if there is any underlying imbalance causing this.  Lower back pain as an example is often a symptom of something like tight calves, hamstrings, or over developed quads etc.

[billplumtree]

The trapped nerve in my neck, which has stopped me from cycling, walking, or doing owt much at all for the last two years, seems to have resolved itself.  Dunno why I got it in the first place, nor why it went away - doing my usual yoga class before christmas, Something Happened at one point to make it better down my left hand side (where the pain was all along), but suddenly worse down the right (where it wasn't).

Over a couple of weeks, the worse bit gradually improved and went away completely, and the better bit stayed better.  A decent gym session last Friday, a 3 hour ride yesterday and a 3 hour walk on the fells today and all seems to be well.  I think I'm better 

Now, just the small matter of 2 years-worth of lost fitness to catch up on.

[cycleman]

I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11   

[Polar Bear]

Best wishes Chris.   

[mcshroom]

Good News Bill.

[Kim]

I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11   

Are you getting the urology "lashings and lashings of tea" treatment?  (For best effect, this comes when you're trying to sleep.)

[Ningishzidda]

Then there's brother's diabetic pin-thin MIL, who can eat sweetcorn with impunity...

When God gave mankind sweetcorn, he came back a week later and exclaimed "For heaven's sake. Your supposed to put it on a hook and catch fish."

[cycleman]

I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11   

Are you getting the urology "lashings and lashings of tea" treatment?  (For best effect, this comes when you're trying to sleep.)

No just water and three small cups of tea during the day . seeing as I drink my tea out of a liter mugs at home and I am not fond of plain water thing's could be better .

[Kim]

I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11   

Are you getting the urology "lashings and lashings of tea" treatment?  (For best effect, this comes when you're trying to sleep.)

No just water and three small cups of tea during the day . seeing as I drink my tea out of a liter mugs at home and I am not fond of plain water thing's could be better .

But could also be worse.

I ended up on a urology ward due to bed availability when my gallbladder rebelled (they thought it was pancreatitis at the time).  I hate tea, could barely keep fluids down, and hadn't slept for days, so fending off the must-top-up-the-bladder tea brigade every five minutes caused a sense of humour malfunction.

[Peter]

The trapped nerve in my neck, which has stopped me from cycling, walking, or doing owt much at all for the last two years, seems to have resolved itself.  Dunno why I got it in the first place, nor why it went away - doing my usual yoga class before christmas, Something Happened at one point to make it better down my left hand side (where the pain was all along), but suddenly worse down the right (where it wasn't).

Over a couple of weeks, the worse bit gradually improved and went away completely, and the better bit stayed better.  A decent gym session last Friday, a 3 hour ride yesterday and a 3 hour walk on the fells today and all seems to be well.  I think I'm better 

Now, just the small matter of 2 years-worth of lost fitness to catch up on.

Great news, Bill.  We've benefitted from your photography in the meantime!

[cycleman]

At 4.00pm I was seen by the uroligist after the ward nurse had made a fuss  .the uroligist has said that they will remove  the cathier in the morning and I am hoping my plumbing works  . The neurology side are now saying that I do not need a MRI scan so If all goes well I might escape tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday ☺

[hellymedic]

I know I am blessed with a small waist but whenever was a 34" waist on a woman 'slim'?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35280028

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

It depends how tall she is.