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

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

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 ((((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

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.

 

 

Rosie I also hope your day was better.  I failed to remember that practicing what temple mentioned is also part of my process.  Changing how I am experiencing the pain changes the condition.  I learned to change the shape of it, color of it (pain is red and changing to blue and lighter blue is relief), changing the weight of it etc. works really well.

Two days ago I was working with a chisel and slipped into my finger cutting to the bone.  I relaxed my system and focused on the cut being relaxed and painless.  It did not bleed and closed up immediately.  Right now it's closed, dry and healed mostly and I am left to practice gratitude.  My HP is also pleased with it as my spirit is calm.  Gotta keep practicing.

Keep coming back.  (((Hugs)))  

 

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.....