moonchildhippy
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Posted: Oct. 11 2008, 08:38 |
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| Quote (Scatterplot @ Oct. 11 2008, 08:12) | No, I just learned to adapt my balance/gait to what I had left. It took about a year, but I was walking fine again, just some intermittent pain over the years, I learned to manage the pain from the show "Kung Fu". "You must make pain your freind, this way it cannot hurt you". Pain to me is like background noise, hiss on a cassette tape, if you want to enjoy the music your brain eventually filters out the hiss and you ignore it. Until CD's come out and you 86 the tapes.
Nah, the bike thing 30 years ago was not to do with testosterone, although I did a lot of wheelies and donuts on my beloved Suzuki. I had logged many miles on it, and it, as well as I, were very agile. It was my trusty steed. I had just gotten my paper license awaiting my picture license in the mail. Me and my freind rode on it to school(10th grade), and when school let out I needed to cross a highway to get to the street I used to go home. I had school busses behind me, jocks in their Camaros yelling....but there was no break in the traffic I had to cross. Once I saw an opportunity, I gunned it to cross that highway and we got hit from the right by a large Caddilac. It was pure miscalculation plus the urgings of the jocks behind me honking. So I lost some flesh. All these years later, my comfort zone is about 40-50mph. If the speed limit is 45mph and the road is curvy, I just do 30mph, and if the cars behind me don't like it, oh well. Yeah.......I guess I grew up.
Jimbo |
Jocks in Camaros -Scotsmen??? 
Camaros aren't they murderer's cars, as can be seen on this clip about 7mins in
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DOyDLUzAAOY
This is where the chaps from Top Gear go to the States and try and buy a car for under $1000, where they drive from Miami to New Orleans, and on the way almost get beaten up by some "Rednecks in Alabama"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2syY12OPkwI
I think it's bad that the American Government haven't helped out the citizens of New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina.
| Quote | BTW, what's up with your pelvic pain? Did you break your hip in recent years? If so, there are ways to do certain exercises which are therapeutic and conducive to reducing that pain. Ignore me if it's something you don't want to talk about.....
Jimbo |
I don't know the exact cause of my pain, I've been tested for anaemia, diabetes, my Dad had the Type2 diabetes, IBS kidney and gallstones, but it's all came back clear . I've had ultrasound scans and a laparoscopy to investigate possible gynae causes, but they've come back clear but I bleed for longer than I used to. A cyst was detected in Jan '07, before I met my wonderful boyfriend, and I know he inadvertently burst it, the only thing is he blamed himself for my problems since then, but I put it down to unfortunate coincidence. Anyway as there were no visible signs inside my consultant put it down topsycosomatic pain due some unpleasant experiences when I was a girl/teenager. I did tell him briefly what happened, as my fear is down to medical exams down there. I'm having counselling for these experiences and I'm getting fewer flashbacks, but the physical pain is getting worse. I've e-mailed the consultant with what I think, awaiting his reply. I've been given endometriosis or PCOS as a possible cause
http://verity-pcos.org.uk/board....f4686f9
http://www.endometriosis.org.uk/
but it can take a time to be diagnosed. I know there's a link between diabetes and PCOS, and if a close relative has/had diabetes that increases the risk of me becoming a sufferer.
I don't mind discussing such things if it helps someone else and raises awareness of these conditions, that's it's not all a "normal" part of having been born a female.
Jim , I'm also interested in how you manage your pain, I'm on the strongest dose of fizzy Solphadol, might be branded by another name in the US, but I try and avoid taking painkillers unless the pain becomes unbearable. The pain can vary from a dull ache to a stabbing pain in my R/H side, and sometimes around to my lower back. I'm trying to get a referral back to my consultant, and seeking a second opinion.
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