Breaking in two
It turns out that my great performance at Carrera de Resistencia en las Montañas a week ago brought me a serious consequence. The slight bouncing of the waistpack I used during the race irritated one of the nerves in my lower back.
The night after the race I had a bit of lumbar pain, but I thought it was usual post-race soreness and that it mostly had to do with stress from my body position while running the uphills. The day after, the pain started to cease so I kept doing my regular stuff: went to Opeth gigs for 2 nights in a row, climbed at the University wall on Tuesday and got back to running on Wednesday morning; once again I used the waistpack to carry water for Mokka and myself.
At night I went to the movies and had dinner with Odina and started to experience the same lumbar pain; this time it was stronger and got intensified with time. By 3 a.m. I was awake by a sudden strike of pain in the waist; I couldn't move in the bed and got really scared. It didn't take me a lot to figure out something really bad was happening, I decided I had to call the chiropractor as first thing in the morning.
He scheduled an appointment for me at noon; it took me around 30 minutes to get dressed, go downstairs and get into the car. After the examination he diagnosed what I just described before, a badly irritated nerve in my waist. He stretched, aligned and maintained my body at different positions in the bed so things went back to their place; that made me feel a lot better. Nevertheless, the pain while standing up or moving was still present so he advised to take things slowly and prescribed absolute rest as well as medicines.
I couldn't work for 2 days, I wasn't able to sit in front of the computer. I slept for most of the time, letting the medicines do their work and the body its self-healing process. By yesterday I was about 60% recovered, I was able to carefully stand up and walk (shuffle) very slowly. Today I'm feeling better, at a 75% of recovery I'd say. I've noticed I lost a lot of elasticity in the waist area, which means that I'll need some rehab after recovery. Tomorrow I have another visit to the doctor, for which I hope to be even better and get good news. This has been painful :((
The night after the race I had a bit of lumbar pain, but I thought it was usual post-race soreness and that it mostly had to do with stress from my body position while running the uphills. The day after, the pain started to cease so I kept doing my regular stuff: went to Opeth gigs for 2 nights in a row, climbed at the University wall on Tuesday and got back to running on Wednesday morning; once again I used the waistpack to carry water for Mokka and myself.
At night I went to the movies and had dinner with Odina and started to experience the same lumbar pain; this time it was stronger and got intensified with time. By 3 a.m. I was awake by a sudden strike of pain in the waist; I couldn't move in the bed and got really scared. It didn't take me a lot to figure out something really bad was happening, I decided I had to call the chiropractor as first thing in the morning.
He scheduled an appointment for me at noon; it took me around 30 minutes to get dressed, go downstairs and get into the car. After the examination he diagnosed what I just described before, a badly irritated nerve in my waist. He stretched, aligned and maintained my body at different positions in the bed so things went back to their place; that made me feel a lot better. Nevertheless, the pain while standing up or moving was still present so he advised to take things slowly and prescribed absolute rest as well as medicines.
I couldn't work for 2 days, I wasn't able to sit in front of the computer. I slept for most of the time, letting the medicines do their work and the body its self-healing process. By yesterday I was about 60% recovered, I was able to carefully stand up and walk (shuffle) very slowly. Today I'm feeling better, at a 75% of recovery I'd say. I've noticed I lost a lot of elasticity in the waist area, which means that I'll need some rehab after recovery. Tomorrow I have another visit to the doctor, for which I hope to be even better and get good news. This has been painful :((
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