Some of us have been feeling a bit "under the weather" and we thought you might have experienced the same in the past few weeks.
We found an article on the NHS site that includes a really nice list of tips to get through the winter. So we thought it could be helpful to you as well: nhs.uk/conditions/stress-an...
One of the crucial things listed there is to talk to others about how you are feeling and it reminded us of a little video our MarketingHU produced last week for the Time to Talk awareness day
At the office, some of us are trying to get as active as possible to get some feel-good endorphins, by either going to the gym or going for a brisk walk at lunch.
Well done you Joel,i am afraid I dont have your commitment,especially as the weather becomes increasingly depressing,although I do still spend a lot of time working in the garden,and that does give me a lift.
I can’t swim laps anymore. The rectal nerves were compressed for too long. I had the rectal nerves released 3.5 years too late so the nerve injury is permanent. My sympathetic nervous system was completely overloaded. It’s not phantom pain.
I can snorkel gently and swim but nothing as full on as laps BECAUSE my meds make me too tired AND too much activity agitates the pelvic floor. I walk a long way BUT only if I’ve slept well.
Too much moving, climbing stairs, sitting , lifting grocery bags or bending over to lift items off of the floor, pushing a vacuum cleaner,etc, aggravate the nerve because the levator ani muscles spasm and the pudendal nerve is adjacent to or lies near these pelvic muscles.
I use Nortriptyline ( morning, afternoon and bedtime ), Hydroxizine HCL ( for breakthrough pain on active days in the afternoon) and always at bedtime, 12.5% Compounded Ketamine 12.5% Saline nasal spray for breakthrough pain on active days, AND AT BEDTIME I use a full 7.5mg. Zopiclone sleeping pill, Compounded 10mg Valium 2% Lidocaine vaginal suppositories, and one 0.1mg. Clonodine pill. I just started the Clonodine eight nights ago. I feel my anus and rectum trying to relax.
I meditate regularly to calm my Sympathetic nervous system...I do it in quiet AND when the neuralgia and allodynia are bad, I meditate with spiritual peaceful music on my I - Pad. Music is my best distraction from pain. It resonates with my being.
Thank you....I’ve suffered for years...it’s been quite the journey.
Everything could have been so much better if the doctors had treated me with respect and listened to me. They used their ‘ radar’ instead and thought it was all emotional....what nonsense.
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Hi Laura, I just try to eat healthy food and a pan of homemade broth and dumplings to warm me up as I find it hard in winter keeping warm due to my cervical myelopathy, also I have just been told that I can only get my flu jab after all the people over 60 😵 I thought people who have poor immune system through I'll health would be priority doesn't seem saw at our DRS surgery x
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