Back in the Gym After 4 Months

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I finally went back to the gym after a good 4 month hiatus!! :p I was an avid gym enthusiast for 5 years straight. I went 3 to 4 times a week and then in Feb when I got the viral thing and all this wierd muscle crud I just stopped cold turkey. I had no desire and was losing tons of weight being drepressed with worry. (5' 10" and 108lbs) My husband said I was a walking skeleton. I finally started putting weight back on probably due to the anti-drepressants and shoveling food down my throat. My desire still wasn't there to work out though until now.

With the help of all of you I feel I am slowly, oh so slowly, starting to accept some of these body issues as benign.

Now don't get me wrong I'm still seeing a neuro tomorrow and haven't had the guts to cancel any of the other 5 appts I have but I feel I am making a litttle progress.

I did notice the twitching did flare up a little more after the work out but I had no problems with biking, walking the treadmill and lifting wieghts so I guess these are all good signs.

I am also cutting back on my Xanax I have been only taking 2 a day instead of 3 so that is also a good thing.

So I guess what I am trying to say is "THANK YOU" to all of you. I don't think I would be anywhere near feeling any better had I not found this place. You hear so many horror stories about the internet and here I am with such a positive one.

I will inform you all as to what this neuro says. I hope he's kind and doesn't assume I am a quack without listening. (I know BE POSITIVE and avoid the negative)
Thanks again, Carri :D)
 
Carri, that is SO awesome about your work-out! YAY.

Perhaps we can start you on a weaning program with your neuro appts, lol.

How about this...go to the appt tomorrow and in exchange, cancel one of the others.

Then next time you go, cancel two more, lol. If I did that math correctly, I think that adds up to five. Or, quit cold turkey and don't go to any of them.

But if you need to go to all five, we love you anyway and will rejoice with each new excellent report, ok?

Seriously, I'm so happy to hear you are on the mend...

Blessings and hugs,
Sue
 
Suzi,
You seriously made me laugh out loud so hard. :p My son just walked by and said "Mom what are you laughing at".
I think you were one of the first people to help me and I feel so grateful.
I will make NO PROMISES on the appts but I will TRY. My mom wants me to visit her with the kids for a week in June and that is when I have 2 of the dr appts so maybe, just maybe I'll cancel those.
We'll see. Hee Hee
My husband would be ever so proud of me.

ONE DAY AT A TIME!!

GREAT BIG HUGS,
Carri
 
You are doing great - and the fact you can still exrcise without the extreme intolerance and/or fatigue has you in a good place overall. As always, count your blessings and enjoy the things we all used to take for granted, like a good workout or a week off with mom and the kids. That ALONE should have you at least thinking seriously about canceling your neuro appointments!!

I speak from experience - having seen neuros at least 10 times now over a 29 month stretch - multiple "waves" of reassurance close together lose their potentcy real fast - like taking too many antibiotics over time I guess...if anything, call and reschedule them and space them much further out. My guess is you will cancel a few of them before it's all said and done.

Great to hear you are doing better and laughing - keep taking that all too important medicine!!

JG
 
Carri,

Everything will be great tomorrow. Don't forget to make a list with all your questions so that you don't forget to ask anything that you want to. This way when you get home you won't be able to say....if only I asked (&^%$#?? I could relax.

Come on after you get home to post your good news (we all love when people do that). And then you can go over to MM and go on Tatsu (that ride looks awsome!).

I will be home tomorrow except for 12-1 (9 your time) if you need some support...call.

ristinaL91
 
Carri,

That's great news about your workout. A good workout has helped me through many a dark day of worry. Here's to many more for you!

Johnny
 
Quick question regarding the twitches. Obviously, we are burning muscle when that happens, can that eventually lead to muscle issues down the road?[/b]
 
Carri,
Here's why the brain talk forums aren't good.

It is because there are multitudes of people over there who are also undiagnosed, in limbo, have nothing wrong with them, yet are convinced they have **S. Anxiety tends to feed off of itself.

PLUS there are few who perhaps are in the early stages of diagnosis who have enough clinical signs to be suspected cases of **S. In this case, to the untrained lay-person, the subtleties are, well...too subtle, and you don't have the benefit of seeing the person or being a neurologist to understand why one person might be a suspected case of **S, while the other is not.

Then there is that misery loves company, so even those diagnosed may not be as reassuring as you would hope.

My experience with the *S forums is that everyone on there thought everyone had *S, no matter what their neuro said, what the MRI report showed, etc. I can think of perhaps one occasion when I visited those boards where someone with *S actually told me that it didn't sound as though I had it. Everyone else told me to keep going to doctors and stirring the pot until I got a diagnosis.

They meant well. They were responding to my anxiety, my frustration, and my suffering, but they couldn't see me, were not living in my body, and perhaps if they were, they might have said "hon, you don't have *S."

There is so much nuance to medicine, that it is, in fact an artform. The internet gives us the illusion that we can solve the diagnosis riddle on our own, however to think so is folly.

If you were a juror on a murder trial and were asked to judge someone's guilt using written word sent only via the internet, of course you could not convict someone based solely on what you read. You would need to see the accused, examine the physical evidence, hear the accounts and voices of those testifying for the prosecution and the defense.

If you wouldn't be able to pronounce the death penalty over an accused murderer using evidence collected via the net, how can you issue the death penalty upon yourself using the same flawed methodology?

I hope this helps...

Blessings,
Sue
 
LisaLM, freaking...astonishing...awesomely fantastic post. You girl...rock-a-billy.

Your death penalty reference is great, but we don't have it in Canada. Therefore we just give ourselves a life-sentence of worrying and anxiety. I almost got thrown into jail in Italy for not pinching a woman's behind. It is a very heavily enforced law, that if a woman sashays close enough past you that you can pinch her bottom with ease, then you have to. Holy Pavarotti, signor policeuomo, I had no idea. He let me go after I gave him a bribe, and jiggled my family jewels as is customary for men there. When in Rome....

ciao,
Basso
 
Basso, did you also have to pinch his behind as part of the bribe? :eek:

Just wondering...or was the glow off your "family jewels" enough to keep him satisfied? Or perhaps...did you let HIM jiggle the gems? :oops:

Enquiring minds want to know.... :D)

Suz
 
Sorry guys for my lapse in judgement. Like I said I had never been to either site I just heard you shouldn't go there. The only sites I ever visited prior to this one was medhelp and actual *** sites. I've never spoke online to anyone about *** until now. I would just type in symptoms and Presto Chango my world collapsed.

I am sorry if I seem to be going backwards instead of forwards. That isn't the case I promise. Believe me I'm not making these enormous leaps and bounds but I did decide to cancel one Neuro appt at the end of June so I guess that's a good thing. (Mind you haven't called yet but i will)

My goodness between you and Basso and your poetic ways of writing we all must sound like bumbling idiots. Hee Hee :oops:
Carri
 
Aww....carri...not to worry.

There is no condemnation here, only love, support and concern.

I'm glad to hear you are weaning your neuro appts, lol. ;)

It is perfectly normal to take steps forward and back, don't be discouraged. Just keep coming here and let us build you up, ok?

Blessings and hugs,
Sue
 
NO!!!!!!!!! LisaLM, I neither touched his behind, nor jiggled his "jewels." I am not LGBTIQ, and you can't make me.

Carrielynn, I am applauding...now. Awesome, you have turned a corner. Keep the momentum going girl, you deserve it.

Cheers,
Basso
 
What do you mean keep coming back. I don't think I ever leave. I leave my internet on 24/7 and walk by occasionally for reassurance and rub the screen against my twitchy leg. JK

I admit I have neglected some of my laundry. It seems to be piling a little larger lately. Oh well all we have is time right?
 

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