Pain in bed still when rotating, or if I trip in my crutches like a clutz, and a 1 otherwise. Pain up to a 2 by evening, forgot to use crutches twice when getting up from couch, and leg felt fine both times.
Steve O sent me three articles about sacral stress fractures and they were like reading diary. These injuries are so rare that misdiagnosis and false starts with treatment are inevitable. If only it could have been diagnosed in Feb, but it wasn't because of faulty medical care, rather a lack of medical clairevoyance, and I'll have to forgive my various caregivers and most of all myself for that shortcoming :) The articles suggest I could be on land running in 4-8 weeks, so I will likely be doing the 8 week plan. Even though I have a "stress reaction" by diagnosis, I am going to treat it like a stress fracture, because it very well could be and just wasn't picked up strong enough (too many layers of fat to image through ;) ). Found out in articles amenorrhea was a potential cause of bone density loss. I just thought it was one of the many perks of being a serious runner :) My last two were 4.67 months apart, so perhaps this is a risk for me. I need to figure out calcium supplements and how to test for bone density/bone loss.
One week of no activity, then slow increase of cross training sounds like the plan. I haven't done any cross training since Thursday, but I had extreme pain through last Saturday, and even Sunday wasn't that good, so should I wait until next Monday to start crosstraining? My start will be walking in the pool and swimming with my arms. All needs to be pain free. So I could try it Friday and just see if its pain free. Used new home e-stim unit, 2.5 hours on SI, 1 hr on back. It's not as sturdy as the models at Dr. Bradys, or Steve O's offices, so I hope I don't wear the sucker out.
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