flowerbug
Garden Master
I thought olde age but you are young and talking about younger still!
Epley? So that's what it is called. I tried that on the edge of the bed but it made me so dizzy I thought I might just fall off as I shifted positions.
The commitment to winter walking started, I guess, 4 years ago when I would stand up after sitting for 90 minutes or so and I'd walk about 20'. Dizzy! As long as I was active, including that walking, I didn't have those problems. But you see, it was with those long minutes sitting.
This was a little different. I was dizzy before I ever left the bed, some mornings. Whoa ... I really didn't know vertical from horizontal!
I never gave up on the walking and even challenged myself with some uphill but it was always 30 minutes. Too much sitting. Too much respiratory distress, maybe especially with one ear. Way too little activity. Shucks, I can't imagine how people in hospital beds or wheelchairs can survive for long.
Work can be tiring, even painful. Some exercise is just too dang boring but it's best if not painful, right?
Steve
our motto is "if you don't move you rust" and while it may hurt at times i still have to do it because if i don't it hurts even worse. my left knee, if i don't walk, will start aching, but walking must grind off whatever it is that aches or numbs it or something. same with my back. if i don't get enough exercise it will hurt worse. now is sneezing season and if i sneeze wrong i can put my back out. sure enough the other day. so i'm hurting for a while until something else comes up which hurts more.
figure that the few days when something doesn't hurt are gifts. i do appreciate them when they happen. between old work injuries (as a teen) and motorcycle wipe out and a few other things it's just how it goes. none of it is bad enough that it keeps me from sleeping but it is pretty much always there.
today is sunny and not too much wind, we may get out for a walk up and down the road. been only able to go a few miles because Mom's knees are so bad but she still wants to go. trying to work back up the three miles. not sure we're going to get there.
no matter what i'm glad you're still with us @digitS' even if you are grumbly and hurting at least you can talk about gardening and doing things and daydreams or just stories. i like stories.
p.s. i get bad vertigo too at times. not this past year as much thank goodness, but i was having a lot of troubles with my ears and was doing various things to try to get them to stop itching so bad. then in my reading i found out that if you are doing things with water/oils the temperature has to be very very close to what your body is at or it might set off vertigo or mess with the inner ear. so i've stopped doing all of that and just hit my ears once in a while with Q-tip and hydrocortizone cream and that at least keeps me from wanting to get the drill and wire brush out to itch my ear canals. all i can figure out is that i'm allergic to my own ear wax because nothing in any medical article has made a difference for long. not into antibiotics, but did try h2o2 solutions, alcohols, tea tree oils/lotions, etc. for several months and nothing made a difference. within a week or two of stopping using them it would all come back and hasn't changed since, but at least the hydrocortizone cream keeps me from wanting to chew my ears off/out.