Since my last post, my training had to stop completely. I'm not sure if my car accident made things worse, but I'm guessing it did. My body finally reached a breaking point. A point where I HAD to listen to it.
On Sunday, January 31, the weather was nice, so I decided to go out and do 1 mile. 5 minute warm-up on bike, then 3:30 walk / 1:30 run intervals. I felt good even afterwards...until later that evening, when I developed a deep throbbing pain in my left groin/hip.
By Monday morning, I decided it was finally time to give in and go to the doctor. I was able to get in early, and then go to the hospital for x-rays of my hip and lower back. Results came back the next day on Tuesday. Hip looked normal and only minor degeneration of L1 (but not enough to really cause pain). It was decided I would wait it out and take pain meds as needed, hoping that it would improve.
By Wednesday morning, it was not better, so I went back into the doc. I really went in thinking I'd request an MRI, but money is tight right now, so I requested stronger pain meds and left the office again hopeful that time would help.
Over the next couple days, I took a lot of muscle relaxers and hydrocodone, which helped. Finally, Sunday (Feb 7) I felt good enough to attempt some physical therapy. I stuck to only 1 set (of 10 per exercise) and with no weights (leg raises, side leg raises, reverse leg raises, bridges and clamshells).
Yesterday (Mon, Feb 8), I felt surprisingly not sore. So I upped it to 2 sets (of 10 per) and 25 minutes of flexibility yoga (Rodney Yee). Slightly sore today after that, so will take today off, then try that again tomorrow. Going to keep doing the PT and yoga until I am up to 3 sets, then add in 1 set of those sets with weighted ankle weights after that - working back up to 3 sets with weights (what I was at previously).
I'm going to hold off on the recumbent bike until I can get back to where my PT was before! After that, I will eventually get to walking. Running is a long ways off.
I'm making progress...slowly...
