Oh the agony of it all....

Well I ran on Saturday and I ran again last night. Not at my normal time sets as per pre-vacation but it was a start. But after last night’s run, I did my stretching and the ole hip started giving me grief after   dinner. I just couldn’t get comfortable on the couch, every position hurt and made it ache. My hip aches from the inside right down my leg through my bones. So before I went to bed I took a couple of advil and then tried to get comfortable. Once the drugs kicked in, I was able to fall asleep – but not for long. At midnight I got up to use the washroom (nightly occurrence as I drink so much H20) and as I was getting into the sitting position with legs hanging off the bed, moving from one cheek bone to the other, I felt a “pop” in my right hip (the sore one). Well the pain of it was just horrible. I have a high pain tolerance (which I think most women do) but man this just hurt and ached or radiated down my leg. I went into the kitchen to get a couple more advil to ease it and then tried laying down. No position was comfortable. I normally sleep on my sides but there was no way I could do it last night. So I put a pillow under my legs and laid on my back and fell asleep that way. Eventually I rolled over and put the pillow between my legs and I think the elevation of my leg to align with my hip allowed the pain to ease off that way as well. I had a fitful painful night of sleeping.

So naturally this morning I did not walk my 2 miles to the train station as it is still achy. Not as much pain but achy. I was supposed to start running with my co-worker tonight after work but I have had to cancel. I think I need to heal before I break anymore. It’s just so depressing.

I so wanted to get back into the swing  of things but as a lot of folks know, any pain in your back (in my case lower back, right hip area and radiating right through the bone) is not a good feeling and rather than do more damage, I really need to heal it. But I don’t know who to see? A chiropractor ? They didn’t help much in the first place. I have an appointment with the Physiotherapist to get that InterMuscularStimulation (IMS) procedure done again as it helped release the muscles before - but she is away until Monday. I have another appointment with a massage therapist this afternoon to see if she can just get some of the aching out of my back/hip/leg area (any release would be nice right now), and I have an appointment Tuesday with my regular doctor to see about getting a referral to a specialist. Might as well get that ball rolling now as I don’t want to have to have a hip replacement before I’m 50 and that’s only 2 years away… :(  Should get to the issue itself and find out exactly what is wrong and get it fixed. Be proactive.

I wanted to get going on a 90 day personal challenge starting August 31^st and really push myself in the exercising and eating clean for the three months. I think I’ve been dilly dallying around enough the last year and need to really focus and get down to business. I’m just pissed now that this happened and that I may not be able to exercise as much until we figure out what the true issue is. I guess for now, I’ll just do lots of walking (which still is uncomfortable), stretching and hope that the pain goes away so that I can start jogging again. AND I’ll eat as clean as possible.

I was even going to try to be accountable on my blog about not drinking and keeping an honest record of the “drink and snack free” days (yesterday was one of them J) – hey gotta start somewhere.

AND today at work they have started the shoulder tapping and letting people go. It sucks and depresses the heck out of me. Oh the stress of it all…. And the old thought process that used to go through my mind is that I really need a night out which involves a drink … my new thought process is going to change that and tonight I will go home, have dinner and try to relax and just talk things through with the BF.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic week!

Ttyl

Sandra