Man, my tendon issues are a bummer! Is this pre-menopause? Is this some hidden genetic issue? Is this due to inflammation in the body? Is this due to all my previous deconditioning and other deconditioning injuries/episodes? I think it really this it's the latter - it all boils down to my awful first year of NO rehab where I deconditioned severely. This kind of wasting away isn't like sitting around on the couch not exercising, this is an athrogenic muscle inhibition type pain reason for deconditioning. The neurological system degenerates too. Really tired of things just not going to plan. I decided to just map out my last 4 years into one of three categories - bad, moderate, going well. Well isn't that telling! 55% of my last 3 years 7 months have had some sort of major issue/injury going on that affects rehab. Only 11% of the time I felt like things were going well and I felt strong (but not normal, full capacity).
So no wonder my tendons aren't up where they should be. They take so much longer to adapt. Your cardio vascular system and muscular system can adapt and grow much faster. Given all these red hiccups in the plan, no wonder my tendons have yet to adapt to my demands. I need to be more patient. On a side note, my chronic 20 years of heartburn at night (which affects my sleep) is finally being focused on. I took PPI medication for <20 years and I felt it never did anything for me, so I stopped it a few years ago. I never was able to "eat well enough" to eliminate my heartburn. Then I started researching more about gut issues, food sensitivities, underlying reasons for heartburn. Basically my conclusion from all my research is maybe this is a lot bigger of an issue than I thought it was, maybe I have an underlying issue that can be treated, and I am completely in over my head! I just thought these food quirks just made me "me," so I accepted it for decades. Now, I found an integrative and functional nutritionist. We've already done the MRT food sensitivity test [https://www.nowleap.com/leap/]. This test uses your own blood to test your immune response to 170 different foods and chemicals with 94% accuracy and 91% specificity. Turns out I am moderately sensitive to foods I have been eating everyday! Bananas, cherries, flaxseed, white potato, sweet potato, apricots, cucumber, tomato, caffeine, corn, cashew, yogurt and more!!!! I have been keeping my gut in a constant state of inflammation. I am getting the guidance of the nutritionist for 4 whole months, and more tests are coming up. We start with a very restrictive diet with only my safest reaction foods and we test and build up from there slowly. I've lost 9 pounds already, but heartburn still needs work. I have lots of healing left in there after decades of scarring and irritation. Food sensitivities can be linked to a plethora of issues. My ultimate goal is to end my heartburn, and not get cancer. My dad died at 58 due to esophageal cancer. Plus sleep would be really good! If this can also help my body/recovery issues that would be so great! Also an inflamed gut is linked to leaky gut syndrome. Bad/wrong bacteria can pass through the intestinal wall and enter the body. This has been linked to turning on certain DNA for auto-immune diseases. My mom and sisters all have different auto-immune diseases. Maybe I can prevent this path.
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Day 1300 is here and time to add one more "step" to my list!
This 100 day block was hard to keep short, too many things happening. I will say it started out pretty good. June and most of July went pretty well, but then it all fell apart after my week long July hiking trip in Idaho. I clearly pushed my tendons over the boundary and set off multi-week flare ups that I'm still coming out of 6 weeks later. I obviously have to do my week long hiking vacations DIFFERENTLY. There are a few more long trips coming up in October and November. I need a better plan so I can get off this rehab hamster wheel. I feel like my summer was cut short honestly. I am currently in no condition to do hiking trips, not even a weekend trip. |
AuthorA 45 year old active female who tore her ACL in January 2017 (at the age of 40). Reconstructive surgery in February 2017 with bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft. Archives
November 2022
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