This is a friendly run. No chips or official timekeeping. My pace today was fairly sedentary - 36 mins, slow even by my standards.
You're off on your trip tomorrow - have a great holiday.
This is a friendly run. No chips or official timekeeping. My pace today was fairly sedentary - 36 mins, slow even by my standards.
Oh yes, slow running has to be part of any running regime. Slow runs, HIIT runs, strides, fartleks, hill running, they're all part of the mix. No one is going to set a personal best with every run.stickyvicky wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2023, 7:48 pm Nothing wrong with that there are lots of benefits to running slow Google it and you will see!
Yikes! Thats not a common injury and to have it bilateral?? Now you have options to explore, Florida should have good sports medicine docs.. have they talked about what your plan of treatment is? I can't believe you've just been exercising along not knowing anything!! lol damnstickyvicky wrote: ↑January 5th, 2024, 2:50 pm So here is the over-under on my hamstring and glute situation! It's a wonder I was able to keep on doing what I was doing at all! Including walking! What the fuck! Almost complete "avulsion" . Stacie and the other medical people here can say what that means! It's on both sides, they just did the detailed MRI on one side to save me money, since I'm paying everything cash.
I'm familiar with PRP, we use it in conjunction with surgery. I've never been a big fan of chiropractors but I know some people swear by them, I just prefer PT. Definitely sounds like over time you kept aggravating the injury! Starting with the least invasive therapy is smart and I really hope this helps, its a good option and just think, you get to be waited on and lazy for 4 days! LOL Seriously though, being you're in such good shape should help in your recovery process too. I just cant believe you've just been trudging along OUCH!!stickyvicky wrote: ↑January 5th, 2024, 6:58 pm Well I was in terrible pain, so I stopped running 2 years ago, and did other stuff instead, like swimming, then I got a rower and that was great for a while but then that got too painful .... I was going to massage specialists, then tried acupuncture, tried all kinds of things, got x-rays of my back taken, ended up buying a $2,100 package at the chiropractor who promised me that if I came three times a week, after a month at the most, I would be pain free. Well after 2 months of three times a week it was still worse. They were telling me that I needed to stretch my hamstrings, so I was doing all kinds of exercises like deadlifts and good mornings all which was making it worse, and they also told me I had to roll my hamstrings with the foam roller which I did even though it hurt like hell. After two months was up they said I guess we were wrong, we dont know what is wrong with you, you need to see a sports medicine professional. They referred me and hat guy did ultrasounds and MRI.
So everything I was doing for the past two years was wrong and making it worse bit by bit.
It all started 2 years ago with Nordic curls, I think I felt them pop, but figured it would go away on its own. I do have a high pain threshold.
Anyway on Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. my new sports medicine doctor is doing something called PRP and M-fat injections. They said I need to stay still for 4 days after and then I can start walking after that. I will need 10 to 12 physical therapy sessions also to learn how to exercise it without damaging it again and build up strength. I talked him down for 6000 to 5000. So get this, the surgery that would probably cost $60,000 the insurance would cover and I would have at least 6 months of downtime, but doing it this way which is less invasive and only cost $5,000 the insurance will not cover. Logical right? Anyway if this doesn't work I will have to get surgery.
Geez Vicky, I had no idea what you have been going through. I hope you are able to get everything under control.stickyvicky wrote: ↑January 5th, 2024, 9:39 pm In the beginning it was sharp shooting pain, down the back of my legs, like sciatica, from the glutes to the back of the knees, or sometimes all the way down to the ankles. Then over time the pain got shorter and shorter distance wise until it was just a burning hole on each side of my glutes, the past month it has turned into a dull throbbing ache. Apparently there's a whole bunch of scar tissue. It has evolved.
The titty fucking in tonight's camhow ended up hurting me. I'll have to be more careful!
Take it from me, if something like this ever happens to you, don't guess or assume stuff! Get an MRI!
Sounds worse than being in the Spanish inquisition. You're a trooper.stickyvicky wrote: ↑January 9th, 2024, 3:12 pm Lol @Erik.
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Well I did my procedures this morning, the first part was him taking out a bunch of blood and spinning it down to concentrated platelets, then the next part was removing fat from my glutes, which wasnt a picnic, but I've endured worse. It was basically just like liposuction. That wasn't all that painful and I was thinking okay this is not so bad.. but then when he started injecting the mixture of the PRP and the fat his needles got super close to the tears and it was 90 minutes of intense pain gripping the bed so I wouldn't hit the ceiling! I think my fingerprints are permanently ingrained on the table . He told me that most of the men and athletes usually cry/scream/sob at this time lol (as he was injecting the mixture directly into the tears, all 4 of them!)
He said I did really well. He was really pleased with everything at the end ie. the quality of my plasma and the quality of the fat) we even finished a little early. He said he hopes the procedure he had this afternoon goes as well! He feels good about the outcome he said possibly I should do a second round of it in six or eight weeks during my physical therapy, but just the PRP next time not the fat mixture.
I can go back to taking all of my regular vitamins and supplements starting tomorrow which I have really missed for the last week! I can't live without my Ginger and turmeric and tart cherry!
He thinks I will have 100% recovery, 3 months of PT and by 6 months be back to running and rowing and doing everything that I want!