Fond thoughts of future milestones...

[crazysoph]

This is, well, girl-stuff. Getting older girl-stuff. You are hence warned, especially if you're a tender petal of a boy (make that "bo-o-o-o-o-oy") who's default attitude is that we have grossness for bodies.

Comments

[purpletigron]

That sounds somewhat similar to the hip/leg pain which Mater suffered in early 2005, after injuring her back gardening, and her hip falling off her cycle. It seems to have been exacerpated by anxiety, and took a long time to heal. She needed physiotherapy to help the healing along.

[crazysoph]

I was monitoring it with the thought that I could have been starting an injury, because I really began noticing it after practice Tuesday.

But then, the red began, and I sat there going, "Duh! Faked out again by the cycle..."

I'll still monitor, even though I'm nearly certain it's menstrually related - after my encounter with back spasms (not to mention a variety of instructive tales, your own and your Mater's included), it would seem a shame to not have paid attention to all that wisdom.

Pity I have to miss training tonight, but that's the breaks with the airline schedule.

Crazy(and multiple thanks for the comment!)Soph

[purpletigron]

*gentle hugs*

[anysia]

Uhh Soph? That sounds like the pain I was getting, before the disc prolapsed and then slipped.

[crazysoph]

Huh. Oh-kay. Given this and what purpletigron has shared, I'll definitely monitor this... the discomfort level is only annoying at the moment, not incapacitating (indeed, my original post was more along the line of vent/whine). I'm remembering your first tangle with the physio, though, so any more thoughts on what I might say to a GP, if it looks like I need to go visit?

Crazy(but trying to be prudent)Soph

[anysia]

Mine was annoying on and off for years. Didn't incapacitate me at all. One GP kept telling me to lose weight and the pain would go. I did, and it didn't. Finally she was replaced by Doc Nathan, and he had the wherewithall to have a CT scan done when I was having leg and back pain a few yrs later. If you manage to get a doc that doesn't try to foist your ailments off to being overweight, getting olders, or since you are a WOMAN, its all in your head, just explain exactly how you posted it. And demand (politely) it be checked out thoroughly.

[crazysoph]

Huh, that's very interesting to know.

I have some hopes locally - I've been putting off the inevitable visit, but have heard (once I get over this threshold) some good things about the pro-activeness of Belgian medical practice. I am reasonably lucky with my weight, in that it'd probably require an active anorexic to find me in need of losing any. (I'd consider myself borderline, but my Irish GP was always nodding with satisfaction after I'd mention doing aikido 3 times a week and walking miles atop of that, and drop further discussion of weight.)

Also (I can hope), when I finally enroll in a surgery, I can exploit the blank-slate quality of my presence and see how much I can get done in the name of a medical version of the auto tune-up. (I'd also been idly wondering, since getting a bone density scan a couple years back, but before I really got involved in the aikido, if my activity since then has lead to some improvement of the density in the lumbar region... might be worth, as it was before, even springing for the fee to get it

[rdkeir]

Aaaaagggghhhh!!! My eyes!!!!!

Girl stuff!!!!

It burns!!!!!

(just because we care, and want you to get the full round of reactions)

[rdkeir]

more seriously, I'm glad you've got friends who have the knowledge to warn you of more serious possibilities. I've had various problems* where the painful experiences of those who have gone before warned me before it got too bad. Good judgment comes from experience, experience from bad judgment,and I'm glad to profit by experiences that are second hand, rather than needing to learn the lesson directly.

*a shoulder/arm thing caused by routinely wearing a messenger bag with a heavy laptop; wrist problems from bad ergonomics; and tight hamstrings leading to foot problems. Now you know.

[crazysoph]

Gosh and here I thought you were going to decorate my journal with stories of peeing in a sieve, with Our Mutual Mary's own hard-won wisdom about kidney stone's to guide you...

Crazy(and ducking quickly away)Soph

PS Nyah nyah nyah GIRL GERMS!!!!!

[rdkeir]

Kidney stones are one pain OMM hasn't had to deal with.

She did, however, keep me clued in to the danger of ignoring wrist, foot and shoulder pains.

I did have to explain redbird once, during a Wiscon, that if I had seemed odd and unsociable that morning in the hotel elevator, it was because I was in the midst of a kidney stone attack and on my way to the emergency room. (She hadn't noticed anything odd in my manner, which is disturbing if I think about it; isn't it ALL ABOUT ME?)