Author Topic: The health and fitness thread about random things (Read 476616 times)

Beardy · « **Reply #4950 on:** 31 March, 2024, 11:37:20 am »

Why is back pain so wearing. I’ve no idea what I did, but I’ve had lower back discomfort for a week now and mobility is restricted. Being married to a former nurse means that sympathy ran out some time on Wednesday

hellymedic · « **Reply #4951 on:** 31 March, 2024, 12:12:07 pm »

Pain *anywhere* is wearing, which is why one of my first pieces of Audax advice is ‘Keep comfortable and attend to minor discomforts before they become major pains’.
Pain stimulates secretion of stress hormones and these add to exhaustion.
With back pain, its constancy and exacerbation by those movements you NEED to make all day add to the grind.

I don’t know what’s causing your pain but hope it settles soon!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4952 on:** 31 March, 2024, 03:07:54 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 28 March, 2024, 01:34:12 pm

Quote from: cycleman on 28 March, 2024, 12:49:15 pm
And the hateful catheter is gone . Hopefully it won't be back for years . Thank you all for the support and advice. You have helped me keep slightly sane

“Sane” & “Cycleman”. Words rarely used in the same sentence…..

Cycleman was introduced to Sanity and they soon became fast friends – but only on Facebook. They get along very well as long as they don't have to meet in person.

cycleman · « **Reply #4953 on:** 31 March, 2024, 06:35:56 pm »

Never used Facebook

. I am still trying to get the balance right. In the early hours I am feeling constipated and have great difficulty peeing then after a bowel movement all is OK till the early hours again. I need to not have to take movicol so I can improve the balance but I am scared of going back into retention again if I don't..

BrianI · « **Reply #4954 on:** 02 April, 2024, 03:22:41 pm »

Ho hum.
Another 2 month prescription of supposedly orange flavour Laxido ordered.

barakta · « **Reply #4955 on:** 02 April, 2024, 06:28:03 pm »

Joyous! Sympathies.

cycleman · « **Reply #4956 on:** 02 April, 2024, 07:39:04 pm »

A lot of gastric reflux last night but a good bowel movement this morning and ok today.. now I need to decide weather to movicol tonight or see what happens in the morning.

andrewc · « **Reply #4957 on:** 02 April, 2024, 08:54:37 pm »

I think we should put Cycleman in touch with Gillian McKeith. They'd have so much to talk about......

cycleman · « **Reply #4958 on:** 03 April, 2024, 08:15:08 pm »

OK I will take the hint and. Stop posting on this thread

Beardy · « **Reply #4959 on:** 03 April, 2024, 11:27:55 pm »

Na, ignore them. If posting updates on your movements is helping you, y=the carry on. We all have the rift (and ability) to scroll on by and ignore your output if it’s a bet troubling.

Flite · « **Reply #4960 on:** 04 April, 2024, 08:41:42 am »

Agree with Beardy.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #4961 on:** 04 April, 2024, 09:09:31 am »

What beardy said.

andrewc · « **Reply #4962 on:** 04 April, 2024, 09:17:55 am »

It was intended as a joke, not a complaint! Sorry Chris.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #4963 on:** 04 April, 2024, 10:01:02 am »

Visited the physio quack yesterday.

Very impressed by my progress. Added one exercise to help regain mobility behind back - that one hurts!

We had a chat about therabands vs weights. It's no contest. Therabands enable movement, against resistance, in any direction. That is what you need to engage the small muscles that create joint stability. If you see videos of elite athletes in the gym, they spend a lot of time doing movements with bands.

Working at a desk is actually an advantage here; I knot therabands around the desk legs, and every time I think about it, do a few movements with them.

Discharged from physio.

Kim · « **Reply #4964 on:** 04 April, 2024, 11:57:34 am »

Something is clicking in my throat in time with my heartbeat. It's mildly distracting.

(Problem with therabands is they make your hands smell of balloons...)

cycleman · « **Reply #4965 on:** 04 April, 2024, 08:45:24 pm »

OK sorry for over reacting. I am aware that that what I post on this thread is possibly over descriptive I am confident in discussing my medical problems but if anyone feels that I am going to far hope that someone will let me know. By pm if not on the thread

Pingu · « **Reply #4966 on:** 04 April, 2024, 09:12:25 pm »

There's always the Spoiler tag, cycleman.

cycleman · « **Reply #4967 on:** 04 April, 2024, 09:35:48 pm »

Which I have never learnt how to use

Pingu · « **Reply #4968 on:** 04 April, 2024, 09:53:06 pm »

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T42 · « **Reply #4969 on:** 10 April, 2024, 09:25:52 am »

Just had my coronarography. Everything in working order. 'Angina' on hills was something else. Fun thing is that now I could mistake real angina for the something else.

Bloke in next bed unhappy, facing a probable bypass.

ETA: later, 11:30 am 'breakfast' for diabetic coronary patients:

Dubious soup, hard roll, ham, cholesterol-rich butter, cream cheese + soft cheese. Out of pic: pot of apple purée, sticky bun.

Fair enough, actually: if your arteries are still healthy, dig in; if not, sure they're going to fix them anyway, aren't they?

hellymedic · « **Reply #4970 on:** 10 April, 2024, 03:42:56 pm »

Leicester University is doing a study into Atrial Fibrillation in endurance athletes.
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/afletes-mri?fbclid=IwAR3W2VTGvTCqqL3VVcTGZPhk2s1Oz0p0VYvxlUkUZ0DpHh6ga82ETbTCcIE_aem_AXP951Rh7iHQ9jmRGFtKzGSumZZ-AAAz-GdJusLeyt-FHehPAVWrCiDxuaDBG07DCzpxRVn8xdodZAwa7z2P1_fz

JonBuoy · « **Reply #4971 on:** 10 April, 2024, 04:17:06 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 10 April, 2024, 03:42:56 pm

Leicester University is doing a study into Atrial Fibrillation in endurance athletes.
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/afletes-mri?fbclid=IwAR3W2VTGvTCqqL3VVcTGZPhk2s1Oz0p0VYvxlUkUZ0DpHh6ga82ETbTCcIE_aem_AXP951Rh7iHQ9jmRGFtKzGSumZZ-AAAz-GdJusLeyt-FHehPAVWrCiDxuaDBG07DCzpxRVn8xdodZAwa7z2P1_fz

The Principal Investigator rides with my cycling club and I think we have all heard of the Chief Investigator.

BrianI · « **Reply #4972 on:** 11 April, 2024, 06:55:09 pm »

I'm now part of the ASPIRED Study, following Monday's blackout & collapse.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/edinburgh-clinical-trials/our-studies/all-current-studies/aspired-study

and I get to wear a fancy HRM for the next 2 weeks.

https://vimeo.com/736584068/d52656afb6

T42 · « **Reply #4973 on:** 12 April, 2024, 09:26:03 am »

Had a gander at the report of my coronarography. Amongst other notes: "tabagisme sevré", i.e. smoker, stopped. Yeah, >50 years ago but they bear grudges.

Peter · « **Reply #4974 on:** 12 April, 2024, 11:23:36 am »

Yes. I have "ex-smoker". Nearly 60 years ago for me. It's like an accusation. It never appeared until I was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation a few years ago. Apparently, according to an unrelated investigation, I also have COPD (no symptoms). I wonder if future observers might see the COPD and "ex-smoker", tap their noses and go, "Ah!". A doctor friend told me that in connection with COPD, "lives in Manchester" would be a far more pertinent remark!