I am in PAIN

[Writer]

Started practicing yoga a week ago. Not too intense, but just enough to see some sculpting in my upper body.

Today I completed a fairly tough hike in a mountain canyon near where I live.

I can hardly stand I am in so much pain. I think, tomorrow, I will be bed-bound.

Help! Send in reinforcements! I'm out of ammo!

:cry:

Writer.

[mark414]

1. reinforcements in

:smoke:

[Writer]

2. Okay... so...

what exactly are you doing?

[lenidog]

3. How about instead of reinforcements some Ben Gay?

[Writer]

5. Okay... rub that puppy in!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

How long does it take for this crap to work? Damn this stuff smells!

[lenidog]

9. It stinks but it works!

:D

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Hot bath or baths will help, assuming you're able to get in the bathtub

If not, a steamy shower might help at least a little. Aspirin or ibuprofen is your friend, too, of course.

[Writer]

6. Hey - I'm turning 30 next month.

Is this an omen?

[lenidog]

10. Actually it is

Its all starting to head down hill.:-( (I'm 33, so I know)

[Writer]

11. And I haven't had children yet!

Oh my God, what is becoming of me! Life is so short.

[LiberallyInclined]

7. Pain is my life.

I wake up to it every morning- it takes me 30mg of methadone and 20mg of flexeril just to get moving. i take an additional 40 mgs of methadone and 20 of flexeril thru the day.

when i sneeze, it feels like someone is cracking my spine like a whip.(i try not to sneeze)

my blood's sedimentation rate is at 92 mm/hr.(it should be 0-15, but it hasn't dropped below 50 in years).

it's why i'm still up going on 2AM, when i have to be up before 6 this morning...

I don't mean to bitch, but chronic pain with no cure sucks rocks.

[Writer]

8. I'm sorry to read about this

Perhaps, instead of pain, I should classify my current condition as extreme soreness.

What you're enduring sounds painful. Do you meditate?

[LiberallyInclined]

12. occasionally...

what i really like is a nice soak in the warm therapy pool at the health club...i have a regimine of stretching exercises that i call "Wai Chi" (kinda like tai chi, but done in water). my dr. long ago advised to get bouyant as much as possible.