07-12-2022, 09:08 PM
It was great to see my old chiropractor. She's been taking care of me since I was first diagnosed back in 2008. She had to move her office - it has been in a converted house, but now that's being rented out by a family. She still maintains the garage, which was formally her yoga studio - now it's her office and zoom yoga studio. And there's a dog now - Finn. He's a tiny terrier kinda dog - a lap dog and very calming as I waited for my session.
She gave me several exercises and ways to perform self traction. She said my posture is terrible now (she's an Iyengar yoga instructor) and while she wasn't about to confirm the medical diagnosis, she could see how improved posture might help.
I've been doing most of my work lying down. I have a beautiful workstation at home, the best one I've ever had, but I can only sit there for an hour or so before my body starts to hurt.
My pain wasn't too bad over the last two days because I've been working lying down. I've also get a better sense of how to use my meds. Nevertheless, when the pain comes, it's hard. So deep - nerve disruption. I've experienced so many new sensations of pain over the last few weeks that I never knew before.
I had a good chat with my mom about it. Her pain must have been similar because it was her broken spine pinching her nerves. She had the most pain in her forelegs. Now she's in no pain at all because she's on gabapentin and nsaids. It's the gaba that's doing the trick. That's a neural.
But I know already that I can't take gaba, from the last time I went down this path. I get too spacey. There's a staircase loading dose protocol and I only went up a few steps and got way too high. I remember driving through the stoplight that was nearest to Ranch Macbeth, and having a total blank about where I was. It was so psychedelic - I had driven across that intersection so many times. It was like the balloon of my mind popped. I remember thinking 'I AM TRIPPIN and DRIVIN. NOOOOO! Okay, okay, it's cool. Just get through this stoplight, pull into that parking lot, park, and get out and walk around for a bit. I know I'm close to home.'
After walking around the strip mall for a bit, I got some clarity, enough to drive home. Soon after, I tossed all that gaba out. That shit felt good tho. Real good.
She gave me several exercises and ways to perform self traction. She said my posture is terrible now (she's an Iyengar yoga instructor) and while she wasn't about to confirm the medical diagnosis, she could see how improved posture might help.
I've been doing most of my work lying down. I have a beautiful workstation at home, the best one I've ever had, but I can only sit there for an hour or so before my body starts to hurt.
My pain wasn't too bad over the last two days because I've been working lying down. I've also get a better sense of how to use my meds. Nevertheless, when the pain comes, it's hard. So deep - nerve disruption. I've experienced so many new sensations of pain over the last few weeks that I never knew before.
I had a good chat with my mom about it. Her pain must have been similar because it was her broken spine pinching her nerves. She had the most pain in her forelegs. Now she's in no pain at all because she's on gabapentin and nsaids. It's the gaba that's doing the trick. That's a neural.
But I know already that I can't take gaba, from the last time I went down this path. I get too spacey. There's a staircase loading dose protocol and I only went up a few steps and got way too high. I remember driving through the stoplight that was nearest to Ranch Macbeth, and having a total blank about where I was. It was so psychedelic - I had driven across that intersection so many times. It was like the balloon of my mind popped. I remember thinking 'I AM TRIPPIN and DRIVIN. NOOOOO! Okay, okay, it's cool. Just get through this stoplight, pull into that parking lot, park, and get out and walk around for a bit. I know I'm close to home.'
After walking around the strip mall for a bit, I got some clarity, enough to drive home. Soon after, I tossed all that gaba out. That shit felt good tho. Real good.
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