u/Gryffindor_Reject

I can’t even make this up. I go ride for the first time in 6 years, and I’ve ridden religiously in the past. Even 6 years ago I hopped on for the first time in maybe 10 years? With no issues at all, was I sore? Absolutely, but I rode the whole hour of my lesson and made it through and managed to ride again a couple days later and so on.

I ride for maybe 15-20 minutes last Saturday, my legs started getting extremely sharp pains and I am told on Sunday I have rhabdomyolysis and that I did “too much” on the horse, and I’m just getting old. I’m literally 29. I feel like they’re treating me like I am elderly.

I was also in the gym 2 years ago working out 5-6 days a week, 2 hours per day and I was fine. But I couldn’t handle 15 minutes on horse back before suffering catastrophic muscle injury, to the point that I lost feeling in my foot and part of my leg and may have nerve damage.

Someone please tell me I’m not old, and this wasn’t normal because these doctors are truly making me think 15 minutes on a horse is the same as running a marathon and I am not buying it. This simply should not have happened. My legs are a mess, I walk funny just after a week of muscle tissue breakdown, and I’ll be happy if I even get to ride after this after going out and buying a $550 helmet, and over $1000 worth of riding gear to use it one time for 15 minutes and have to go to PT to hopefully get my strength back, and be lucky if I get back in the saddle.

To say I’m heartbroken is an understatement, also guys, make sure you’re listening to your body. This could have ended up way worse for me if I had put it off any longer than I did. I’ve been hospitalized since 8/9. But anywho, take care of yourselves!! I’ll just be over here feeling sorry for myself. 🥲

I’ve been in the hospital since Sunday 8/9 with rhabdomyolysis, that they feel may be polymyositis but we have to wait for the blood work to come back to see what exactly it is. My MRI of my legs showed edema and fluid, so they decided to start me on IVIG.

Fun fact, my mom is a full time IVIG infusion nurse in her day to day life. Hospitals or I should say, pharmacy’s in the hospitals are not the most educated on dosing and loading dosages.

I had my first one on Saturday and they increased it incredibly too fast, my mom told them before they even did it (she knows far more about it so I trust her judgement) they increased it by 46ml every 30 minutes topping out at 360-ish but it was finished before it reached that time frame.

My mom’s highest rate for a patient currently is up to 182 I believe but commonly 120, sometimes less. On Sunday they did slow it down and topped out at 186 before it was finished, didn’t have a headache during but last night my head started hurting and it progressively got worse. I have severe neck pains, stiffness, pain in the back of my head, head is pulsating painfully all over, it hurts to move my eyes or my head. Can’t put my head down or back. It’s been excruciating.

They’ve given me
Tylenol, ibuprofen (all low doses that I would normally have double of at home), hydrocodone once but it didn’t work, Benadryl multiple times, magnesium multiple times, zofran, toradol, nurtec, decadron, fluids and I’ve been on constant fluids since I’ve been here due to Rhabdo, they brought it down to 75ml per hour and increased again to 100ml per hour today.

What else should I mention to them or try? I’ve been icing my neck which has helped. I feel like I was running a fever earlier, but when they checked my temp it was after I felt like it broke and temp was 99.1. I am desperate to feel better and leave this hospital.

Hey everyone.

Didn’t think I’d be part of this club, but I guess it happens. Went to ride a horse for the first time in 6 years (I used to ride all the time), got on, rode around for a few and started feeling a lot of pain in my legs. Sharp pains.

I stopped and walked for a few, took my feet out of the stirrups and rotated my ankles. Put my feet back in the stirrups and rode a bit more, I felt kinda sick when I was riding. The heat was bad, and the sun was beaming off me. I felt nauseas and just over it. I told my trainer I’m just going to stop. I didn’t ride very long at all.

The rest of the day things got progressively worse. My right leg muscles on the lateral side felt hard as a rock, around 8-9pm that night the top of my foot and part of my leg went numb. I was in tears most of that night, putting off getting seen and the following morning I just decided to go get looked at. Thank god! I went to one of those free standing ER’s, and the doctor immediately became concerned and was worried about compartment syndrome.

Xray showed a bit of fluid, he felt like my pulse in my right leg was weaker than my left. So I got transferred to the hospital. Go to the hospital, they decided to take my CPK/CK levels, they came back at 8000. Obviously this got them moving a little faster, and got them worried. They ruled out compartment syndrome, they did an ultrasound, no blood clots. Once we started aggressive fluids, my Ck started to come down. It got down to 4500, and got angry and shot back up. I have been here since Sunday and it’s now at 24,000 with no improvements and no idea where to go from here.

I’m about to get an MRI of the rest of my spine, an EMG tomorrow. They’ve probably taken 50+ vials of blood since I’ve been here. They took 8 tubes a little while ago. They think it’s auto immune related, like myositis, but it takes a bit to get results back and again, my CK isn’t budging. Neuro thinks my reflexes in my legs are hyper reactive as well, and that I have back and nerve stuff going on in addition to the muscle issues. I’m a mess. I’m a 29 yo female if that makes a difference, 2 years ago I was going to the gym religiously, 2 hours a day, 5-6 days a week, and now I can’t even lift my leg without shaking.

I haven’t ridden in 5-6 years, and I have my first lesson this Friday to get back into the swing of things. I’ve ridden on and off for several years, but more consistent when I was a kid/teen

I just had two MRI’s done to get some answers for some of the issues I’ve been having with my neck, upper back, and headaches.

My cervical spine came back with quite a few things, foraminal stenosis, arthritis, bone spurs, pinched nerve, disc desiccation, straightening of the cervical spine, etc.

I’ve also been diagnosed with chronic c8 radiculopathy which couldn’t even be seen on my MRI because they’re saying there was movement during, which sucks. I am 29 years old if that has any significance, but I feel kind of young to be dealing with some of these things, but I know some of it is poor genetics.

How many of you have spine issues and pain and have been able to ride? Everyone thinks my issues are from riding in the past, but I do not remember any significant injuries from any of my fall’s. With that, I’m being told it’s probably not the best idea to get back into riding but it’s one of those things I’ve always been passionate about, that I love dearly and something that has always brought me some happiness in my life.

I’m feeling bummed out about it all.

Well, as many of us all know, Dover is closing and I had ordered a pair of breeches. I actually had to order twice. I ordered the first pair to which they didn’t even have and didn’t let me know till 3 days later, and cancelled the order.

So, I ended up ordering a different color, they supposedly were supposed to be delivered yesterday and it never showed because UPS delivered to the wrong address and didn’t even provide a photo of proof of delivery.

Dover’s customer service has been shut down, so I don’t know who I’m supposed to even contact?

UPS did this to me a couple of months ago with a $1000 vacuum, and I had to contact Dyson themselves to have them open a ticket and issue a new one. UPS did absolutely nothing. Am I supposed to contact my bank? What’s the best course of action here?

Hey everyone,

This isn’t my first time at horse ownership, but it is as an adult. I haven’t owned a horse since I was a teen, and my mom was supporting me through it.

With that said, I’m putting money away to buy my dream horse. Will likely be a QH pleasure bred yearling or weanling. The bloodlines I’m looking for are honestly more than I was expecting, I’ve been quoted $15,000-$25,000. $15,000 isn’t horrible but if I’m looking at over $20k I’m not buying in the next few months like I had planned to, maybe, but I doubt it.

With that said, would you guys buy stuff ahead of time to prepare if you have nothing horse related anymore? I don’t have anything grooming related, first aid related, etc. I’m mostly talking about things that wouldn’t require sizing ahead of time.

Thank you!

Okay, so, I am not sure if this is even allowed, BUT,

I took a math course this semester (that just ended), and the instructor I’m almost positive calculated my grade wrong and I should have gotten an overall A in the class.

His syllabus states,
“There will be no makeup for collaborative work or individual assignments/quizzes. However, the three lowest collaborative work assignment grades will be dropped, and likewise the three lowest individual assignments/quizzes will be dropped”

When reading that, do you think that means that the grades will be dropped in each section, or just one? The way it came off was that each section the 3 lowest grades will be dropped. With that said, he dropped two in the collaborative work, 3 in the individual assignments, and 0 for the quizzes.

What would your impression of this be overall? I was told I should contact him to have him review it, (I have already once before, and he told me they come off automatically on blackboard) but even if that were true, it’s still not right. I’m going to attempt to email him again regarding this, but I am genuinely curious what you all would think.

Hello,

I need some opinions here on this. My husband and I have bad backs, I have hip/nerve pain, lower back pain, neck issues (previous horse rider) haha, migraines, the list is long. We went shopping for a mattress yesterday and fell in love with the luxe breeze soft, but NOT the price. Could we potentially swing it? Probably, but is it a good choice financially? No, not really.

They have a Tempur-pedic luxe adapt previous gen on clearance for $3500 which we are really interested in, it’s either that, or the newest generation pro adapt.

Is the luxe previous gen still pretty nice? Like worth buying over a newest gen pro adapt? I know they’re different models, just trying to do whatever makes sense. We were told getting the luxe adapt previous gen will be final sale, no swapping. I don’t want to make the wrong choice, would love any insight!

Thank you!