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Sep. 7th, 2023 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: injury]
Abdominal muscle injury (which I got in the spring from gardening overexertion):
1. *Mostly* healed up in a couple of weeks.
2. Spent two months taking 1 - 2 steps forward and 1 - 2 steps back depending on how much exercise I'd done lately.
3. Finally healed up completely when I took *another* two straight weeks off of exercise (after the dental surgery).
Said dental surgery:
1. *Mostly* healed up in a couple of weeks.
2. Has spent the past ~three weeks taking 1 - 2 steps forward and 1 - 2 steps back depending on how much chewing I've done lately.
3. ?
The last lingering injury did *not*, it turned out, operate on an exercise/atrophy paradigm. It did not need to be stretched; it did not need to adapt to being used again; it actually did need to be babied well past any reasonable estimate of how long babying it would be beneficial.
So, then, after the next grocery trip I'll try going back on a soft diet for...let's say a week to start, and see if that helps.
(...and exercise does *also* aggravate it on days where it's already non-zero, so I guess I should probably put *that* on hold too.never gonna be capable of manual labour at this rate)
Abdominal muscle injury (which I got in the spring from gardening overexertion):
1. *Mostly* healed up in a couple of weeks.
2. Spent two months taking 1 - 2 steps forward and 1 - 2 steps back depending on how much exercise I'd done lately.
3. Finally healed up completely when I took *another* two straight weeks off of exercise (after the dental surgery).
Said dental surgery:
1. *Mostly* healed up in a couple of weeks.
2. Has spent the past ~three weeks taking 1 - 2 steps forward and 1 - 2 steps back depending on how much chewing I've done lately.
3. ?
The last lingering injury did *not*, it turned out, operate on an exercise/atrophy paradigm. It did not need to be stretched; it did not need to adapt to being used again; it actually did need to be babied well past any reasonable estimate of how long babying it would be beneficial.
So, then, after the next grocery trip I'll try going back on a soft diet for...let's say a week to start, and see if that helps.
(...and exercise does *also* aggravate it on days where it's already non-zero, so I guess I should probably put *that* on hold too.
