My Everest…

The week after my flare-up I go into physio and he checks things out and we are taking things easy today at physio because we don’t want a repeat of last week do we?  Nuh uh….heck no.  Keep in mind that I am telling you these things so you can see the error of my thinking.  As much as you want things to go right and be pain free, sometimes they just don’t go according to plan!  So we do a few things and like always at the end we tape!  I should buy shares in the company that manufactures it !  Tape the Right shoulder. It feels good just like always.  Tape Left shoulder feels snug and a little different but it’s good, it’s comfortable. 

When my physio asked if it felt ok I said yes it did.  Ok see you next week. Yup!  I get home everything is fine. The left shoulder is a bit tight but still fine.  Went to sleep ok and went on my morning walk and because I was swinging my arms back and forth.  The too tight tape on my left shoulder was hell !!!  Pain was shooting from the top of my shoulder to the base of my neck and up to the bottom of my skull.  The second I got home I ripped off the tape.  Emailed physio to let him know.  I wasn’t overly concerned at this point.  My thought was this will settle as fast as it came on….yeah no!  

4 days of horrible (occasionally on & off) neck pain. I broke down on the 4th day and finally took some meds that my neurologist gave me for when my pain is bad. My husband looked at me and said why are you taking that??  I told him because my neck is killing me from here to here and maybe this will stop it. Thankfully it did. However stupidly I thought why didn’t I just take it sooner and not torture myself over 4 days? I am the kind of person that doesn’t really want to take extra meds unless you need to. But then when you look at the options and weigh them you wonder where that fine line is?  How long do you tolerate the pain before you say uncle and take something?  A few minutes? hours? Days?  I guess it depends on you and how you want to live.  As always with any meds you take there are pros and cons and I guess you weigh those at the time when you need meds the most. This next time at physio we really took it easy focused on my neck pain and any other issues something like a snug & comfortable taping job had caused.  This time I was asked if we were going to tape and I said yes.  He has been taping me up for a long time and this is the first time it went wrong.  I blame myself for not saying anything..how was he to know?  He asked, and I said it felt good and that was that!   Next time it feels a bit different and or “snug and comfortable” I will voice my opinions because clearly this is not the position for my body to be in at this time. As we know my body loves to turn the little stuff into a big deal.  So now you can see the importance of communicating even the small things??