#fucking chronic injuries

[eddie-rifff]

im icing my knee because i have chondromalacia which is when the cartilage behind ur kneecap wears away and i just happened to agitate it somehow earlier today and even though the ice is helping its driving me fucking nuts because the real soreness is behind the kneecap and i obviously cant get ice in there. shoot me

[thebibliosphere]

I think the most annoying thing about when my neck injury from the chiropractor flares up, is that it feels like cracking my neck will fix it.

It feels like if I just move right or stretch it far enough the permanent tension at the base of my skull will ease and my head will stop feeling like it’s a half inch too high on one side. (The misalignment is mere millimeters but it feels like a lot more. Feels like someone’s driven a shim between my skull and the atlas at the top of my spine.)

It won’t, of course. Because it’s not a too tight muscle making my head sit wonky. It’s protective scar tissue. Scar tissue that helps splint the area and keeps my skull from cronching my cervical vertebrae like an anvil punching through polystyrene ceiling tiles.

(It’s amazing how heavy your head feels when the muscles in your neck don’t work right.)

And even though I’m aware of this. Even though I’ve worked hard for several years in physical rehab to strengthen the area and relieve what pain I can, it just feels like popping my neck would fix it and it’s taking everything in me not to because that’s the devil talking.

I should probably find my brace, though. Maybe that’ll help.

[tangledinink]

TMNT: Stabilize [ part one ]

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[cree-n-jewish-thoughts]

I loathe the day that my hands stop me from playing guitar.

I had a custom guitar made for me, I spent so much time and money upgrading it, only to not be able to play it anymore because of the neck shape.

It was such a beautifully built guitar. Solid and had decent bones. I put in my dream pickups that I spent six months to find the pair.

I had to sell it because my hand and wrist weren't able to play for more than two minutes without two days of hand pain.

At least the person who bought it will love it, seeing him smile when I dropped it off, he was so happy.

My loss is your gain good sir.

He was super nice also and told me some guitars that would fit my hand nicely.

10/10 best customer 👌

He funded a guitar that fits in my hand and is a bad ass guitar, though, so it all worked out. Sounds nice in recordings without having to do any upgrades.

[dailydivergent]

If you experience carpal tunnel or any symptoms of hand pain, lack of circulation, or repetitive strain injuries (RSIs), you need to start wrist exercises.

Luckily, they’re very easy!

Wrist Curls You Can Do Right Now

Find an object you can hold with your fingertips—thinner hardback books are what I use.

Hold your arms straight out in front of you or rest them on your knees with your palms towards the sky.

Let your wrists naturally fall down, then curl them up til your palm is perpendicular to your forearm.

Repeat 5-10 times for 3 sets, with 30secs rest between each set.

Over time, you’ll want to make the objects heavier, but to get started, use anything!

In the beginning, it’s more about doing the actions at all than doing them perfectly.

[actualaster]

Fun things about being a repeat patient at PT for neck, back, and shoulder pain is nobody even suspects I got top surgery for gender reasons because I legit had some of my chronic pain almost entitely fixed nearly instantly by it so everybody just figures I did it for pain relief

(I mean, that was also a reason, but it was secondary)

[feverflushed]

A whumpee who lives with intense chronic pain, and whose perception of pain is all skewed.

Their daily pain baseline would be enough to force a healthy person to take a day off.

So when they seek medical help for something visibly wrong and extremely painful (a badly broken bone, a horribly dislocated joint, a nasty cut, a burst appendix), they're just. Unphased.

And when the doctors ask them to rate their pain on a scale from 1 to 10, they'd just shrug and go "Meh, 7. I've been better, but also worse"

"Whumpee, your femur is not even remotely where it's supposed to be."

"...7 and a half tops."

[the-good-luck-anomaly]

WOUND UNDER THE CUT. CW FOR WOUND

[pussymasterdooku]

have about 60% of a single functioning hand these days and got tired of humiliating myself trying to open pill bottles when eva’s in the office so she fixed me up good with Easy Open Mini Ricotta Container Filled With Ritalin And Ibuprofen. accessibility win!

[crimeronan]

i got a good grade in PT today AND i'm cleared to walk as far as i want as long as i do it on mostly-level ground :D

[finnthewitch]

thinking about post part 4 Josuke dealing with PTSD and physical disability

[milkweedman]

Totally fucked up the order, so am now attempting to recreate it from the pictures that i took of each warp on the board, with the hopes that the 3rd warp will at least be well behaved. If it isnt im gonna need to do another round of towels (or maybe just a test warp) bc i cant be doing this on the blanket commission. Am very very aware of how tangled this warp will be. Only potential saving grace is that imo cotton doesnt tangle anywhere near as badly as wool, so hopefully it wont be too horribly bad.

It is going, though. About halfway done dressing the heddles. Next will be sleying the reed. Hoping to get all the warping done by tomorrow.

[cookinguptales]

man, there are days when I'm like "idk how much the ketamine treatments help" but then there are days like today where I woke up with a rib out of joint and I suffered for hours before giving in and taking my treatment a day early (which was okayed by my doctor) and I fell asleep during the treatment and woke up like. rib back in and only mildly sore.

like using this stuff is not perfect (the dehydration alone is hard to deal with) but there are days when it's such a lifesaver.

[bleakfortune]

lalala la la lal ala la u dont have to read this your decision heed the warning tag

[the-ocean-is-trans]

i got top surgery 6 weeks ago. two weeks after surgery i decided to attend my friends birthday party at the ren faire. it was so hot i almost passed out and had to sit in the med tent for hours with the EMT threatening to take me to the ER. ending up not going to the ER, but when i was getting into my friend's van to go back home i fell and subluxated my shoulder. a few days later i discovered my incision was a bit infected, and i developed an upper respiratory virus (coughing with a still healing chest is BAD). last week i subluxated my other shoulder. if any writer is needing any fodder for the whump fic they are writing i present you the unfortunate facts of my life.

[writer-in-theory]

sometimes i forget i have chronic illnesses and i try to do things i used to be able to do