Frustrating injury
Posted October 30th, 2008 by Jeff J. SniderAbout a week ago, I noticed that my hip was hurting. I assumed it was just natural soreness from exercising (I’d just done some pretty steep incline stuff on the treadmill, which I haven’t done much before). But over the next couple days, it got worse instead of better. By Saturday, I was in a lot of pain from my hip all the way down to behind my knee. I had a lot of brief theories about what had happened — maybe a pulled hamstring, maybe a pinched nerve, I dunno.
I finally went to the chiropractor yesterday morning, and he said I have an inflamed SI joint, and the swelling is pressing on the sciatic nerve, which is causing the pain to shoot down the leg. Not fun. He did some adjusting and a little bit of electrocution, and it felt better for a brief period of time. Unfortunately, by early afternoon, the pain was back with a vengeance. It hurt a ton to walk, and it’s even getting to the point where it hurts to sit.
There was a time not too long ago where an injury like this would have embarrassed me, knowing that I only got hurt because I was carrying too much weight around. I would put off going to the doctor or the chiropractor or the doctor because I didn’t want to hear them tell me it was my fault. But now, even though I know it probably wouldn’t have happened if I weighed less, I also know that I am working on the problem and making some great progress, so I wasn’t embarrassed at all. (And for that matter, my chiropractor is one of the nicest guys in the world and hasn’t ever lectured me about my weight in the nine years I’ve known him. AND he has read this website and is therefore aware of my efforts.)
So hopefully I will recover from this injury quickly, and I really hope it doesn’t become a chronic thing. Besides the throbbing pain, it’s frustrating to not be able to exercise and speed up the weight loss.
