My Body Perplexes Me

[billroper]

There are days when I do not understand my body's repair mechanism.

Back in December, I slipped on a wet floor on a Metra train and rammed my right foot into a post. This hurt a lot and I spent the rest of the day limping around in great pain. I spent a few days with a cane after that until things got more or less back to normal, except that every so often, I would step wrong and there would be a horrible shooting pain up through my Achilles tendon. This continued for months until it finally (I think) stopped. (I say "I think", because it hasn't acted up in long enough that I think this particular ailment is now extinct, but maybe it's just dormant.)

So earlier this week, I managed to somehow sprain my surgically repaired knee while sleeping. (Yes, sleeping. Apparently, I rolled over in the wrong way or something.) The muscle on the forward inside part of the knee was sore to the touch.

Except two days later, the muscle on the outside rear of the knee started screaming instead. And it was hurting pretty violently for a couple of days.

Until I made a stupid mis-move that hurt a lot. And then it started getting better.

Why exactly moves that trigger extreme pain are part of the healing process baffles me. It's not like there are adhesions that I'm breaking loose in these cases.

*sigh*

Comments

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

When one is walking to accommodate one set of sore muscles, the muscles that normally balance the sore set are under extra strain, and will eventually protest.

Sounds like this is what is happening to you.

I bet Dr.Bob will recommend an exercise that will work both sets equally, with increasing rigor.

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

Your body is doing chiropractic on itself. Something in your knee was out of alignment, causing a muscle spasm. It went back into alignment but it takes a while for the muscles that were in spasm to calm down. I speed this up by going to the chiropractor and having her smack things back into place.

[tarkrai.livejournal.com]

When Rita lived in Chicago, and I was dating in Chicago, I was leaving to go back to Michigan after a weekend there.

Now, when I'm hugging a lot of people goodbye, I have to be careful; because I give tight hugs, I'm in bad shape, and I give myself charley horses in my forearms.

I had one of these nasty knots, and Rita saw. She looked at me, asked me where it hurt, and I pointed to a place on my inner forearm just in front of my elbow. She poked around a bit, and found a knot.

And then, she jabbed it.

The pain was excruciating.

And then all the pain was... gone. And the knot in my arm was gone with it.

Was it something like this?

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

I suspect the alignment problem. I will occasionally get a tendon on the wrong side of something and eventually it will snap back where it belongs. Painfully and with a noise. It will then start getting better.