Rosie, if it's a reaction, it is acid, so get alkaline. I take 1/2 tsp. of baking soda in 4 oz. of water to help with that. The box says how often you can repeat.

Daughter takes Xanax and Benadryl if she's having a reaction

I'm just throwing this out--Benadryl tends to knock a person out.

I had a muscle spasm once and I Did Not Like It!

You are a brave, smart girl. And You are handling this very well. And you will look cute on your swanky rowing machine. You probably have a little sailor outfit with a square collar and a tie in front. No? Well--something to search for.

Self-massage if you can reach it? Doesn't have to be hard==just kind of little "I love you's" to your tissue. Oh==and there's that. Romance your cells. You and they are one. They knew how to grow you from one cell and they can do it again. Send them and you entire body tons of love.

Love you. You've got this.

My Shrink asked me once==I was talking about exercise--if I had a rowing machine. I got so tickled I couldn't speak for awhile. I thought that was a really "Guy" kind of thing to say.

And here you are, you've got one and you even know that you can use it and it won't hurt.

This probably is not helpful and NO GuilT and no Rosie bashing, but this may be your body's way of saying it might have liked getting back in the saddle for fewer hours at a whack, just for starters.

Keep us posted. Good on you for the attitude! I can't imagine saying :Thank You" when it freakin hurts

Temple, a fan

((((((((((((((Temple))))))))))))))))))))) I love the idea of easy tissue massage (doing it but I need to go easy...your idea makes better sense) soft love, giving love to my cells....Yea, that resonates....

I was doing chores, and I bent down to finish doggies bath time and I could feel that oh so familiar "gripping" like across my lower back and I knew!!! I knew!!! Dont think I'll need a toradol shot, but I'm gonna be sore...did a light workout, I think motion keeps me on the road to healing....also drinkng LOTS of water, and my diet is basically alkaline anyway, so its good to see I'm on the right track

I'm on a heating pad...it responds to heat...NOT ice..tried it and it didn't help when I first spasmed up....when I did my "do it now stuff" I got into shower and it felt good....I'm gonna go to gym tomorrow for a swim, after I do my strengthening exercises here on my gym equip...I have really good equip, but would love to have a good swim....

I am on regular robaxin and it forces it to release as well, and also takes the edge off the pain...and it is awful pain.....I have to fight off the depression because it just is sooo sad to be in pain...had enough LIFE pain, don't need this, but I'm doing the TLC thingy....rolled on my roller some..deep tissue massage, but I think your idea about doing it real gentle sounds spot on

thank you, dear lady for sending me some love n support...doggies are nice and clean, washed their bedding and did their nails last night.....I do their dental work, but because I am quite regular about it, I can pass this week, I try to do dental cleaning 1x per month....they have great teeth...

so I am on the heating pad, on the couch, watching tv, and just relaxing....had a smoothie with soymilk, peanut butter, meal replacement powerder, organic and a nice big banana for the potassium.....I do believe that the body should be alkaline...been researching it and it even wards off cancer cells..they cannot live in an alkaline body...my ph is always over 6 ...

will get doggie pics to ya soon as I can.....I had a good day at work yesterday, made good money which was very much needed and got lots of stuff done...i just come, do my thing, they never supervise me because they know I am "on everything" and they trust me....naaw the GAD/PTSD i think has something to do with these spasms...its like my brain signals are messed up and my brain will "signal" my back to seize up and sometimes all I have to do is just turn the wrong way....I am very careful about using my legs, not my back, etc. my CORE is very strong....No reason for this but the psychological nerve damage due to the abuse....so I better just NOT resist it, accept that its going to be a possible chronic part of my life, so it is what it is....I know how to take care of it, and once in a while, tho, it gets so bad, I have to go in and get a toradol shot...don't think i'll need the shot this time....I don't need them often, but it is a good thing if I need that extra help....

drinking TONS of water to flush out the lactic acid and any toxins this brought on

TTYL....

Dang it! Not Xanax==Zantac--an over the counter heartburn med.

Now I'll read your last post.

My Ecology Doc said that in the 80s--cancer cannot live in an alkaline body.

I have read since==cancer is a fungus and feeds on sugar (of course everything breaks down to glucose, but still and alll.

I'm going to get right--get off the weight--I'm beginning to rotate my foods--don't eat the same family except every 5 days, get alkaline, get fit.

I want my own salt-water or light-debugging--tired--words are going poof. Have to avoid chlorine.
I'd love to have a sprung floor to dance on. My teacher/studio owner knew how to lay one. It is so fun to dance on a friendly floor. I used to have a
key to the studio, in Tulsa, and would go there in the morning and put on something like 500 miles from Benny and Joon and just dance in ballet slippers, free
style--like a child playing--all over that big ballroom floor.

I need to drink more water--my daughter emphasized that today. I get Mountain Valley in glass jugs from Arkansas It tastes so good. And I have quart sized green ones I fill and have in the fridge. Still not drinking enough, but will do better every day.

I want to feel good again.

So sorry your back does this thing. In the hospital, they were giving me Lasix, IV--4 x a day, and I didn't know they were and that was why my membrances were drying out and my lips were cracked. And that was what was making my upper back hurt so much--took half a pill yesterday and it all came back to me. So then they were giving me Morphine--almost on demand--and that finally led to well--it seemed to other that I was hallucinating. It made my mother and my sister hallucinate. That is how I wound. I thnk--that Sun night before Christmas when the Home care people sent a smoker and we couldn't get her to leave--standing there arguing that she could do this and that--so I got brain allergy going and then got convinced husband was a threat and got him to drink some cheap, red wine from Natchez, made of Muscadine grapes, (I discussed this with him--he's had no desire to drink for 30 years and wasn't worried--it freaked daughter out, however, and then I wound up calling 911 to try to get him jailed so I'd be safe and they wound up taking me to the new hospital five miles from home and I didn't get to leave there until Christmas night. Anyway, I think I must have been hallucinating then. The tobacco smoke triggered all that and I hadn't detosed all the morphine yet. Da-yum. It all seemed perfectly explainable at the time.

I have been There and Back. So--scratch morphine--never had it before. I'm such a wus--some Versed would have done it.

Anyway, what did the first hospital thing=k they were doing--pumping all that Lasix into a geriatric patient? Oafs! They overdid that, set up symptoms of their doing, then pumped me full of morphine. Mother said when Daddy got old enough for Medicare, all of a sudden they are ordering tests and giving him too much radiation for something. And I believe it. I had 7 or 8 EKGs and 4 cat scans--my favorite were at the ER in the next town--taking me outdoors in the freezing cold to a trailer where the machine was. Are you people for real? Felt as if I were being treated in a MASH unit.

I forget what te plot was--Oh yes--your brain triggering muscle spasms in your back. Glad it wasn't overwork and thankful there is a shot you can have if it gets too bad.

Hope you have a peaceful night. I learned the gentle, pussy cat massage from the Acupuncturist at the Dentist's. I expectedit to be deep and hard--not so. You can do it w/o any pressure at all--any place on your body. Most therapeutic massage I ever had. I cried and cried--just from relief. I'm going to see if I can bribe her to come to the house The sheets she used made me crazy OH but there is no scent--we used dryer sheets with no scent. Daughter found out after she got her dryer decontaminated, she could use dryer balls--the wool ones, I suppose--and things come out soft and I don't react to their clothes.

I use All free & clear, Borax, and Oxyclean for whitening. And I don't react Need to get dryer balls--have used nothing. Telling you this because my house is about as chemical-free as it can be, and it woudn't hurt you--glad you don't have carpets. You may need to get the Fabreeze/dryer sheets out of the resale clothes you buy--I can't go in the stores anymore

Even if you aren't allergic, the 20th Century--and the 21st and all the chemicals are an affront to the body, and the cleaner your environment are, the better. You already know that about your body.

Going to go sleep.

Hugs

z(((Rose)))it sounds as if you stopped REacting and began to respond to the condition with courage and
wisdom. Keep on keeping on

I am sorry to hear that you are dealing with the back spasms... I know all too well what those are like! But the best part if you used your tools and were able to direct the pain to lessen!!
I completely understand your thinking about "why now," or cursing God... been there done that too! But I am becoming so aware of how my back issues are tied to the amount of stress I am carrying at any given moment. Loved hearing how you overcame this!!

Prescription for tomorrow: TLC!

Peace

Hey PnP. I completely think this is due to stress and the financial worry trying to make ends meet. And yeah I did say thank you in a sarcastic way because I was not grateful for this. There is no good reason to be laid up and crippled with this damn back. But instead of obsessing on focusing on the problem Im working on the solution doing what I can to relieve me of my pain with stretching, my medication, meditation, deep breathing, everything I can do to take care of me. I am hoping I dont have to go in for a shot. Thanks for stopping by and giving me some love. Im feeling pretty low right now with this pain

Hey ((((Betty)))))). Yeah, it is really weird, in a good way, I did not fight it, I just thought OK what can I do to ease this and what treatment do I do to make it less. I can move around some but not without my muscle relaxers, I see a slight improvement today, so I will exercise lately with stretching and my strength exercises and on that big machine that is a good work out for a back.

Other than that, it is just rest and taking it easy. Beautiful weather out and I am laid up this friggin back. As long as I see progress, maybe I can avoid having to go in and get another shot. I do everything to prevent these things, I do not know what else I can do, and that is kind of worrisome. Oh well one day at a time. Maybe Ill feel better tomorrow. Kind of down today. And I am not going to be mad at me for being in a low mood, Im just going to take care of myself and try to get some relief from this. It is slightly better today. So I will keep doing what Im doing, hope for the best, but be aware of that I may need to go in for another shot

Wishing you continued healing! As long as you see each day as one step closer to pain-free, then, it's good. It just won't be on YOUR timeline, huh? Funny, but not funny!
Peace & Love today, Rose!

Thought of another,
Rosie, Mother of Sophie--

The Est people had a trick they did with pain. I think the theory is that which we just observe tends to change:

Concentrate on the pain. No resistance--it can hardly get any worse.

Now, ask yourself:

What shape is it? Take your time

What size is it? No hurry.

Now observe--has it changed? Is it better? Resistance to whatever is really does a number on us.

It used to work for me--have forgotten to try it for some time.

Hope you are better today and out playing tennis. No--going swimming. Amazing, girl~brave enough to go get in the car.

You got this! And if you don't, there's a drug for that, right?

Blessings,

Temple

Please get better--my "blog" is dying on the vine. And maybe it is time. I've been very indulged.

Wow! Temple. I am going to try this. Im going to read your post again to me and try it. I hurt so much that I will try anything. Today is a slight improvement but this one was a pretty bad one. But I might not have to get a shot. Its a day-to-day basis but I am going to try your suggestion here. It makes sense. Non-resistance And by focusing on the pain, I am much is I hate to, accepting it. Sometimes I get scared and think that the nerve damage is starting to really tear my body up and how long am I going to be able to work. But I dont want to project I want to just stay in the present. Do my stretching. Do my exercising. No tennis this week for sure. No basketball this week for sure. It will be just strengthening and stretching and swimming and that is it I dont want to tear any more damage thats already been done. God knows how much scar tissue I have on these muscles with these multiple spasms I have been fighting since 1993. Its been that long. I just hope I can get control over this. My body is expressing my still emotional pain and grief over my past. As an ACA there are somethings one does not completely recover from but I am going to do my damnedest to manage it

Great for hugs to you my friend

(((((((((((((Jerry))))))))))))))))))) OMG....what a great post.........now TWO good recovery mates have ESH'd me about changing the shape/color of my pain....You and our dear Temple........that tells me HP is tellling me what to do to help me....Gonna print out this entire thread to make sure I don't forget........WOW!!! I am ready to get into my incense and do my deep breathing exercises with meditation..........and ADDING your great shares

Thank you ((((((Jerry)))))))
Thank you (((((Temple))))))

BOTH of you, Reeeeely resonate with me........I mean I got a nice like "you're gonna over come this" nice twinge when I read Temple's and your shares to me.....that is amazing what you told me about your finger.......that you healed it with focusing on and loving your huge "owie" Loved reading how it healed up so fast...

well, I am trying to give my cells love....its behind me so I can't look at it but rubbing myself and telling my body I'm gonna take care of it...visualizing when I rub me or take hot shower, I visualize the painful, stiff knots flattening out and softening...dunno how its going, but I WAS able to go grocery shopping and do LIGHT chores around teh house....when I am resting and get up, ohhh it is stiff and hurts, but once I am "moving" it seems to not be as bad...so LIGHT moving and just got a text from my Wed. client, that we are on for next week...so it will be 2 days next week....soooo need it with bills going up and paying home/car ins. this week..........trying to keep the stress down....doing little things that please or distract me......I do buy into the "colors going from red to blue" and the "changing the shape" also giving it "love rubs" I will try ANYTHING to feel better and feel some HOPE that 2019 is not going to be another sucky year where I barely get buy.....

Good to see this update...you are doing all the things one should do at home to take care of this...may I suggest Tapping Therapy before you fall asleep at night? Whether it be positive affirmations, or actual "directions" for your body to take regarding healing, I feel that this really works... on a level that our "rational brains" don't believe deep down, you know?

I know from your previous posts how much physical exertion is important to you in body and spirit... so right now is a challenge. Keep doing what you are doing...have fatih that this too shall pass.

wishing you peace today, Rose!

dear ((((((((((((((((pnP)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) YOU said .may I suggest Tapping Therapy before you fall asleep at night? Whether it be positive affirmations, or actual "directions" for your body to take regarding healing, I feel that this really works... on a level that our "rational brains" don't believe deep down, you know?
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guess what!!!! I started that last night, LOL....OMG...here U R suggesting it t me and I started last night...I felt a tad better doing it.....I just crossed my arms over chest and used r. hand to tap l. shoulder and vice versa...I felt myself coming to peace within me...and I "talked to my body" I talked to me, my Inner child...assuring the "whole of me" body/mind/emotions/spirit that I was gonna love us and take care of us and I imagined myself going to one of the mother figures I had when younger and being hugged.....it was late...real late when I did this because my sleep has been horrid, but yea, I felt better....gonna do it ea. night.......and here you are, my friend, yea, it HAS to be spot on , my doing this, because another good mind (You) told me same thing.............grateful HUGSSSSSS