I just learnt something interesting.
Two and a half or so years ago, I had to go and see a physiotherapist because for over a decade now, I've had pains in my hip joints. Sometimes it's been so bad I can barely walk. Anyway. It turns out that I'm hypermobile.
Initially, I didn't think that would be a problem, and the physio didn't make anything of it, just to say that that was what was causing the pain in my hips. Except that, probably most of the problems I've had with my legs and my back are down to exactly that. Which, yay.
I mean it's nice to know what's caused all this bother, but it would've been nice to know sooner. It took me seven years from it being a problem initially, to getting diagnosed. I've been told all sorts: it's soft tissue damage and it can't be fixed; it's because you don't do this* with your legs enough; the worst one was the woman who told me it was referred pain from my ovaries. Uh. No. I know what that feels like, and this wasn't it.
*"This", by the way, was holding my leg unsupported in a straight line so that the muscles got stronger, or something. I don't think that it helped, as it just encouraged me to lock my knees, which I now know is a problem I have anyway.
ANYWAY. I didn't really start this entry to bitch about it, I just wanted to give some background (although boy, do I feel like bitching. I've been in pain all day and I had a hot bath, which usually helps. It did and it didn't. My hips don't hurt now, but my knees do).
I was going to post this entry one day anyway, but I decided to do some reading on the subject (just because I do, occasionally). I've learnt that progesterone based contraception (the pill, the implant, etc) can make the symptoms of hypermobility worse.
HA. I knew there was a reason progesterone wasn't my friend, aside from that it isn't anyway (see: it makes me crazy and some TMI).
(Also yay I have found some exercises to do. Maybe I should come off the internet and work on that exercise mat then).
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Additionally, I feel like I should be doing something, but instead I am eating choc chip muffins and gazing, in a kind of glazed over way, at the internet.
Maybe I should nap.
Two and a half or so years ago, I had to go and see a physiotherapist because for over a decade now, I've had pains in my hip joints. Sometimes it's been so bad I can barely walk. Anyway. It turns out that I'm hypermobile.
Initially, I didn't think that would be a problem, and the physio didn't make anything of it, just to say that that was what was causing the pain in my hips. Except that, probably most of the problems I've had with my legs and my back are down to exactly that. Which, yay.
I mean it's nice to know what's caused all this bother, but it would've been nice to know sooner. It took me seven years from it being a problem initially, to getting diagnosed. I've been told all sorts: it's soft tissue damage and it can't be fixed; it's because you don't do this* with your legs enough; the worst one was the woman who told me it was referred pain from my ovaries. Uh. No. I know what that feels like, and this wasn't it.
*"This", by the way, was holding my leg unsupported in a straight line so that the muscles got stronger, or something. I don't think that it helped, as it just encouraged me to lock my knees, which I now know is a problem I have anyway.
ANYWAY. I didn't really start this entry to bitch about it, I just wanted to give some background (although boy, do I feel like bitching. I've been in pain all day and I had a hot bath, which usually helps. It did and it didn't. My hips don't hurt now, but my knees do).
I was going to post this entry one day anyway, but I decided to do some reading on the subject (just because I do, occasionally). I've learnt that progesterone based contraception (the pill, the implant, etc) can make the symptoms of hypermobility worse.
HA. I knew there was a reason progesterone wasn't my friend, aside from that it isn't anyway (see: it makes me crazy and some TMI).
(Also yay I have found some exercises to do. Maybe I should come off the internet and work on that exercise mat then).
~*~
Additionally, I feel like I should be doing something, but instead I am eating choc chip muffins and gazing, in a kind of glazed over way, at the internet.
Maybe I should nap.
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