Getting Older...
Bah... the thing that I hate about getting older is the body sort of having these aches and pains that weren't there a decade or two ago. In my mind, I'm still feeling younger... but as I get older, there are problems that will get worse if I let them. And so far, I've ignored the warning signs and just ploughed on through... and then forgotten about it when things were okay!
The big one for me is a flare up of a back nerve... I think it is a sciatic nerve, which gives me a sore lower back pain on the left side, and then it travels down to my foot... where it feels like it has been squashed and has sharp pain. Enough so that it can be difficult to stand upon it.
This flared up about 10 years ago after a long distance plane flight... and I had gone to a hospital to see if I had actually broken anything in my foot. I had also give that foot a nice whack recently, so I had thought it was that. Sadly, the X-Ray turned up nothing, and I was sent home.
... but as it came back on and off, I went to a physio, and they gave me a few exercises to help out with it. And for a while things were good, and then I started doing some yoga with my wife... and then things got better, and so I stopped exercising and stretching. Fast forward about 5 years to today... and I have had nothing, no problems... and then all of a sudden, I wake up this morning to that familiar and unwelcome ache in the lower back... and a foot that feels like it is in sharp pain again.
ARRRRRHGHGHGHGH... lesson being learnt in real time about keeping up with the stretching and exercise. I wonder if it will stick this time... but for the moment, I will nurse myself through the day, as I have to do a concert this evening... a little bit of stretching, and then a bit of yoga. Lets see if I can put this a bit to the back of the mind so that I can concentrate on performing this evening!
Ouch ouch ouch...
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I have sciatica too and it definitely comes and goes. I think the thing that bugs me the most about it is trying to figure out what caused it. Sometimes I don't even know what I did to make it flare up. I have some exercises I do when it does and it usually takes care of it. Luckily I haven't had to visit a chiropractor in close to a decade for it.
I took some anti-inflammatories to get on stage... and that fixed it quick... but need to keep doing those excercises and stretches. Sigh... when did getting old happen?
No kidding! I never knew just getting up in the morning could be this much work! All the little aches and pains really add up!
Do those exercises---not when it hurts, but always. A few years back I was unable to even walk properly. I couldn't sit. It was impossible to find a comfortable position. The pain didn't come and go...it was there all the time. I went to the physical therapist and she taught me exercises. I think I had a total of three sessions. (I don't like strangers touching my body 😄) . I have done those exercises every day for years now, unless I'm actually sick and can't do them. The problem has not returned. Twenty minutes a night, at most.
Do your exercises :))
Yes mum... but seriously, I really do need to be much more disciplined about it.
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