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On Wednesday, I made a terrible mistake, and I am still paying for it.
The elevators in my building were not working, and thanks to being in manic mode, I started to panic about not being able to pick up my brother or take out the garbage.
So I made the mistake of taking the stairs down.
Wednesday, I didn't really feel it, but by Thursday, I was in serious pain, and my left leg simply wouldn't work properly.
Since then the pain has gone down, but I am still struggling to stand, walk, or straighten my leg.
I am also having pain in my stomach muscles and back, as I have put more strain on those areas trying to keep moving and do all the things I need to do.
Ah, well, perhaps I have learned and wont make that mistake again . . .
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Using the stairs more often would help, then you wouldn’t be shocking your body when you have to use them! Plus of course it helps to have good cardiovascular fitness.
The aches and pains will go away but they are a warning that you need to be more active.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
We >so< gotta steal Facebook's "Sad" reaction ...
Ye-ouch.
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Yeah. Panic can make us do >very< strange (as judged later, or by outsider) things.
One Vietnam vet I heard about was startled into a flashback, and tried to hide behind a >button<.
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I'm with Maddy, on exercise, and work on your cardiovascular reserves,
But.
>Check with your doctor and then go with what they recommend.<
Meanwhile, non-Rx painkillers, as little as is comfortable. >Do Not< go over the label maximum dose (singly or in combinations). Too high a dose damages our livers.
Also, all the muscles that hurt - "work" them gently, several/many times per day. No "load bearing" just yet, You're aiming for getting blood and fluids to be moving about, and "flushing out" fatigue poisons.
One "starter" might be: (Ask doc) Go up only one flight of stairs, then take elevator back home. Later, walk up one flight, then down. Up first, because it's harder; then use your remaining reserves to come back down.
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Some years back, I was not in good shape. In fact they had to give me cardiac rehab >before< the heart surgery [4]. At one point I could manage 4 stairs, up and down. Not flights, just four stair-steps.
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Diet is of major, even life-saving, importance. [1]
Here's one link to get you started:
https://www.pcrm.org/vegankickstart(link is external). [3]
Free program, and all info on PCRM.org is free. Please check out all of it. No gimmicks, nothing to buy [2] (unless you want a book, and remember your libraries), no 'pills, powders, potions'. No "magic" either, you have to do it. Login/sign-up is also free, and you will get several weeks of "assist" e-mails.
My tagline is:
"Satisfaction guaranteed, or your old health back."
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Let building management know about this, and that you need to be on a lower/lowest floor as soon as available.
[1] One half of the people in USA will sicken and >die< early from bad "food". One million this year, every year ...
[2] Well, we do have to buy food anyways. Why not decent, healthy, wholesome food. I can't even find a place to buy "PCRM-brand" food. We have to go to our grocery stores and choose wisely.
[3] I've taken a PCRM-endorsed/derived cooking class. Tasty stuff. Except that kale is >still< on probation.
[4] Being 8-1/2 years vegan might have saved my life >during< cardiac surgery, Per my cardiac surgeon, "no evidence of cardiovascular disease".
So they didn't have spend any time to to stent, or bypass, or use a "Roto-Rooter" on my coronary arteries. Shorter surgery, less time under anesthesia, less time on (I assume) a heart-lung machine, less time to 'throw' micro-clots into my brain, maybe even less donor blood.