Feeling Old

I took a fall on the ice a couple of months ago and hurt my hip and knee. I have had to be on big time pain meds and a cane, which makes me feel about 100 years old.

Because the injuries were not resolving themselves, and I was exascerbating the problem with nonstop travel and lots of walking, I finally went to the doctor who insisted on not running around like a gypsy so I could get some quality rest and going to physical therapy for some targeted exercise that would HOPEFULLY improve the problems.

I was told the expected when I got to the physical therapist. I had damaged deep tissues and that I had worsened the problem with my mobility because I walking strangely to compensate. He prescribed exercises and ice for inflammation. I got some remarkable news too when I told him I had hypothroidism disease, and it was not good.

It turns out that hypothyroidism not only adversely impacts the rate of metabolizing food so gaining weight is easy and losing weight hard, but it also prevents hormones from feeding and repairing muscles and deep tissues.

So even though I am eating good food intended to nourish my muscles, none of it is being used properly. Instead, my thyroid deficient body tells those nutrients that they are not really necessary and can instead be stored as fat. How is that for insult to injury!

Additionally, I learned that doctors are reluctant to prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs now for some injuries because they can actually slow the process of healing, so be sure if your doctor prescribes them that they will not harm further.

As I've grown older and so constantly busy, exercise is not the joy it once was for me but more of a chore, but I've been told it is the answer to managing this problem. We'll see.