Activity May 12, 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013

I shredded my knee on Thursday... I could barely walk on Friday and Saturday, but woke up today and it felt decent so I headed back to the gym and back to the grind.
Meds I take:
Levothyroxine 150mcg
Prilosec 20mg
Allegra 180mg
Supplements that I take:
1000 IU of Vitamin D3
500mcg of Vitamin B12
800 mcg of Folic Acid
I just added in:
240mg of Vitamin C
2,000mg of Glucosamine
The pharmacist and studies I have looked at suggest adding the Vitamin C in as well as D3 (which I was already taking) to help with absorption and that it can take from 4-8 weeks to start seeing results from the Glucosamine but that it can make a huge difference and has reversed arthritis in some people. I have to try something as I have arthritis in the knee that is bothering me. I'm hyper-flexible(mobile) and it has been a problem my whole life. I tried to take care of it about 10 years ago with PT and some weight loss, which helped. Then my thyroid issue reared it's ugly head and I gained 100+lbs quite fast and until now, I've just accepted the pain and wreckage that my body has become. Back then I didn't believe the surgeon that I would end up in a wheelchair if I didn't take care of it, but I sure do now! Anyway...

Gym Time:
Stepper - 5min
Elliptical - 5min
Treadmill - 25min
Bike - 10min

I busted through all the soreness and the fact that my inhaler just wasn't cutting it for my asthma, but after 45 minutes I started getting sharp pains in my right knee and I know that I have to stop whether I want to or not at that point. I was disappointed I couldn't at least make it another 15 minutes, but I have to listen to my body.

HAHA! And I've started to notice that my red face spreads as the workout progresses. I'm thinking I may be able to gauge how good of a workout it has been by how far it spreads LMAO!

  

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TIAJEAN 5/14/2013 8:43PM

LIVINGDEAD_GIRL - I do plan to incorporate strength training in soon. That is partly why I use the stepper. Once I can do a full 5 minute warm up on it, then I will be ready. Right now, my knee isn't ready... Asthma is a lovely thing, isn't it? I smoked for about 13 years and it wasn't until I was quit about 5 years before I was diagnosed with exercise induced asthma (I believe you have the same type if I read correctly). My asthma wasn't that bad that day, I was just having a little breakthrough which I don't usually get. I think I took my inhaler too close to getting into the gym and didn't give it enough time to really work. DJ4HEALTH - Thank you for the heads up! It is pretty confusing on how to take it to get the true affects. Report Inappropriate Comment

LIVINGDEAD_GIRL 5/13/2013 10:53AM

Seems to me the you might want to look into some strength training to strengthen up your knee. When I dislocated my knee they had me doing everything from leg extensions to lying adductions. Also please be careful with your asthma, one asthmatic speaking to another, you don't want to push yourself to the point where you need a nebuliser treatment. Report Inappropriate Comment

DJ4HEALTH 5/13/2013 1:12AM

I took those until my total knee replacement. Report Inappropriate Comment

DJ4HEALTH 5/13/2013 1:11AM

Glucosamine should be taken with msm and Glucosamine/chondroitin is better and with MSM about 2000mg of it the Glucosamine/chondroitin- one should be about 1200mg and the other 1500 a day and to be taken with no other pills or you won't get good results from it because your body can only absorb so much at a time Report Inappropriate Comment

Activity May 9, 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013

Maybe I shouldn't be calling it "Daily Activity" until I'm actually going to the gym daily. Something always seems to get in the way. I have to figure out a way around that. I think it may be going earlier in the day and then if The Hubs decides to go, I will do a second round.

I did go earlier in the day on this day and I was able to put in an hour and a half.
Gym Time:
Treadmill - 40min
Elliptical - 5min
Stepper - 5min
Bike - 40min


I felt this workout for the rest of the day and actually went to bed pretty early. My right knee is screaming today and I still planned on going to the gym until The Hubs came home with his own knee pain so bad that we went to the Urgent Care Dept to get it looked at. He is now supposed to go into a sports medicine surgeon to have it looked at further as they weren't sure what was wrong with the knee. Thought maybe it was Patellofemoral Syndrome, but The Hubs is being stubborn about going and refuses to go to physical therapy when he says he can do it all at the gym(which he is actually right about). The last time I went to PT here, they gave me a book to borrow based on how they treat back injuries and it worked for me(until I reinjured it after PT was done *sigh*). The doctor has a few other books including one for the knee, so I'm going to order it since I'm figuring this is the same technique they would use at PT also and use it for both of our knees and see if it helps. It's worth a try...

  

Daily Activity May 7, 2013

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

So, there was no gym activity on May 6th. I was sick all day from the crap I ate the night before. Lesson learned... Moving on...

Gym Time:
Elliptical - 5min (I will get better at this eventually!)
Stepper - 5min (ditto to what I just said!)
Bike - 20min

It was a shorter workout again. My knee started bothering me and I had to stop before I could get on the treadmill. Still in pain this evening... Will see what tomorrow brings. I'm thinking of attempting to walk to the gym and then just have the hubs pick me up after so I can get a longer workout in. Here's to hoping!

No picture today.
I've had a horrible breakout happening on my face. Anyone reading this, I'm wondering if this has happened to you as well when you first started working out? My face is acne prone, but I haven't had a breakout like this in at least a year and there's no reason for it except the exercise... Hmmmmm...

  

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TIAJEAN 5/8/2013 10:36PM

I wash my face as soon as I get home, but my skin is so sensitive that if I wash it too much it will break out even worse than if I didn't wash it. It's a never-ending cycle which I thought was supposed to end after my teens and I'm in my late 30's! LOL Anyhow... I stay on the elliptical for 5 minutes, I haven't been able to keep moving the whole time, I do have to stop often. On the stepper as well. My goal is to be able to make it a full 5 minutes without stopping and then I will increase my goal from there. I have been noticing not a lot of people use those two machines, but I plan to try to like them as I can feel it for the next two days so I know something is working LOL Report Inappropriate Comment

LIVINGDEAD_GIRL 5/7/2013 11:57PM

If you sweat a lot when you work out,the sweat and the dirt could be clogging your pores and causing the acne. You could bring some facial wet wipes with you to the gym and after your work out use one to clean off the sweat and dirt. I've always have had acne, not majorly (zit here and a zit there) but I'm the only one that seems to notice it. I hear you on the elliptical, the time that I did go on that machine I couldn't even do 3 minutes on it! So its great that you can do 5 minutes and keep in pushing forward, you'll get there! Report Inappropriate Comment

Daily Activity May 5, 2013

Monday, May 06, 2013

I was meaning to do this every day in May (maybe longer if it goes well enough), but didn't remember until today.

Gym Time:
Elliptical - 5min (first time)
Stepper - 5min (first time)
Treadmill - 15min
Bike - 10 min
It was a shorter, but good workout:


I stopped recording my food after a while today as it was a complete wash. The Hubs made a large brunch, and later on we went to the movies and had popcorn and pop, and then fast food on the way home. It was supposed to be our cheat day, but we went WAY overboard *Shaking Head*

Tomorrow is a new day....

  

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PRAIRIECROCUS 5/9/2013 5:41PM

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PINKEUROGIRL 5/6/2013 1:06AM

Great gym work! Report Inappropriate Comment

Where have I been for the past two years, anyway?!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Wow! I have come on here over the past two years, but I haven't really been updating much until very recently. Well, I was actually really sick, the worst being just about the whole year of 2012. I had convinced myself that I didn't need my meds for my Hypothyroid nor did I need meds for my anxiety/depression, so I stopped taking them the summer of 2011. I didn't feel they were helping me or that my doctor was taking my problems seriously, so I decided to take my health into my own hands. Well, it's true the meds weren't helping and it's also true that my doctor was majorly slacking. I should have just went to another doctor for help, but I had already seen so many that didn't want to help, I had given up.
Once January of 2012 hit, I was in a minor slump of fatigue and depression that just seemed to get worse and worse. By the end of the summer, it took everything I had just to get out of bed and I was convinced I wasn't going to see 2013 and had started to make my final plans so my husband wouldn't be burdened with them when I finally passed. He knew I was sick and depressed, but he had no clue just how bad it had gotten since I did my best to hide it. It was just before Thanksgiving when my depression and anger was just getting to be too much for him and he made me make an appointment with my doctor, which I couldn't get in until January but they wanted to do blood work to see if something was going on...
Well, everything came back good except for my thyroid levels. (for those who don't know, your thyroid TSH should be as close to 1 as possible - normal ranges, depending on the lab that tests, anywhere from .01 to 5) So, normal was 1 and my levels were at 129. What I didn't realize was that without my thyroid meds, I can actually go into a coma and die. No one ever explained that to me when I asked what having Hypothyroid/Hashimoto's really meant. All I thought was that taking the meds prevented getting a goiter.
So, slowly since December, my doctor has been increasing my thyroid meds and opted to hold the antidepressants to see if I really needed them. So, now it's been five months and I am feeling so much better and have so much more energy and am still not needing any antidepressants. It angers me that since I was in my early 20's, doctors have been pumping me full of antidepressants when all of my symptoms pointed to a thyroid condition and they never bothered to check it even though I was begging for help to rectify what was wrong with me.
I also slipped on ice in January and injured my back, putting me through 12 weeks of physical therapy to try and heal it, only to fall again and re-injure it a couple weeks ago. I'm not going back to PT, though. I know what I need to do to fix it and I can do that at the gym while I'm getting myself healthier.
I have also decided, even if it's only for 10 minutes, I will be going to the gym everyday in May to workout... This should get interesting!

  

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PRAIRIECROCUS 4/30/2013 2:37PM

All the best ! Take good care ! Report Inappropriate Comment

SUSANNA37 4/30/2013 9:44AM

Welcome back! Sorry to hear you had so much trouble with your doctor(s). It sounds like things are finally moving in the right direction. Don't forget that we're all here rooting for you! Report Inappropriate Comment