Posted by morganator on December 1, 2009, at 3:40:45
In reply to Re: Boswellia-inflammation, depression, and anxiety » morganator, posted by Phillipa on December 1, 2009, at 0:04:31
I've had five joints scoped in the past year-both hips, both knees, and my left wrist for carpal tunnel. Three of these surgeries left my joint in worse shape than it was before due to scare tissue and never damage as a result of surgery.
I have piriformis syndrome where my piriformis muscle is inflamed and irritating my sciatic nerve. This makes my calves fasciculate often and leaves them constantly sore. When I flex them they cramp up very easily.
I have a slightly herniated disc in my L5 but this is not a big deal. The bigger deal is my lower back stiffness and discomfort.
I have tennis elbow in both elbows and they snap all of time.
Much of the lower body issues started when I was 11 and tore my ACL on my right knee in half when I was playing youth league football. I still don't have an ACL. Then when I was 21 I broke and dislocated my right hip in a bad car accident. Despite this I stayed very active. I started playing basketball when I was 28 and kept playing till I was 33. I did this even after I jumped off a 20 ft. high rock in Great Falls Va. and landed in 3 ft. of water smashing my right shin into a rock. Amazingly I did not tear anything in my right knee(I may have slightly torn my meniscus) but I basically had a hole in my shin just below my patella tendon. After this running long distance was never the same. For some reason sprinting up and down the basketball court did not bother me as much.
I also had a friend push him and I off a 2 story balcony at one of my best friend's house warming parties. I tried to make sure we didn't land on our heads as he was basically on top of me holding on to me while we were falling. When we landed he bounced off of me and I flipped backward landing on my hyper-extended left leg. So, I hurt my left knee. He was joking around with me acting like he was going to push me off(ha ha real funny). When he realized that he actually did he tried to pull me back and I grabbed on to him and we both went off together. We landed perfectly on slightly sloped grass. Oh I forgot to mention that this is the same friend that fell asleep at the wheel going 100 mph resulting in my broken and dislocated hip. He now works for my father and is still a very good friend.
Then I foolishly worked for another friend's moving company during for two summers during my time off from the elementary school I was working at as an instructional assistant for LD students. This is what really did me in. And I was 33 and 34 at the time, not good ages to be doing moving work. And here I am, turning 37 in less than a month but feeling more like 67.
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