u/forgive_everything

Hi all,

I'm just trying to gauge whether this is normal. I was cleared to start with sneakers and FWB at 6.5 weeks when my X-rays showed almost complete fusion and that the alignment had been maintained. However, I immediately had a limp and my outer foot was in pain because I was just leaning on it completely, and my PT told me to use a crutch again so I could at least attempt to land on my heel and roll through the big toe rather than just walk on the outside of my foot.

I'm in Ghost Max 3 sneakers as she recommended, and doing my exercises. Has this happened to anyone else...? How worried should I be? Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this?

Of course, I'm terrified that this is because the surgery didn't set up my alignment right.

TYIA- hope everyone's well. <3

Hey, I'm wondering if anyone could explain to me in plain English what this means? Saw it in my appointment notes from earlier today. TYIA ❤️

Hi all, I've been vegetarian for 25 years since I was 12, but switching to veganism bc I love animals so much and the cognitive dissonance is just becoming unliveable. However I had a bone fusion surgery six weeks ago and my surgeon said I need a minimum of 100g protein a day for a year, and I was somewhat putting off veganism because I already have a kind of low appetite and I've become reliant on just eating a bunch of Greek yogurt daily because it's a lot of protein for fairly low volume. But I don't want to actually wait a year to switch.

Does anyone have suggestions for reaching this amount of protein? I usually get my protein from only vegan sources like nuts/seeds/beans/etc and am still doing that but not sure how to slam on another 50+ grams above what I normally eat, which is what the yogurt was doing

TYIA ❤️

This is just a complaint post but I'm losing my mind and have no one to talk to. I have epilepsy, my meds make me stupid. Brain injury from seizure, also makes me stupid. Mastectomy and later a reconstruction due to genetic cancer risk. Then I was diagnosed with axial spondylitis last year. Degenerative disease that literally attacks your spine lol. Now, I am recovering from an incredibly painful and debilitating bunion surgery and have been in bed for six weeks with months of recovery ahead of me still with no guarantee it'll turn out well and not just give me worse chronic pain.

I also spent a whole lot of time in hospitals with an eating disorder ages 12-28 and in doctors offices multiple times a week when not in the hospital which just adds insult to injury with all this. Like I would've loved to be able to just move on and not continued to be in the medical system constantly forever.

It's like... I'm trying so hard but just haven't been able to get ahead. My family thinks I'm being dramatic with all of this, like my worries about taking housing and jobs that make me be reliant on a car when my license has been stripped away from me because of epilepsy at times and I almost certainly will be unable to drive again at points in the future; they also think axial spondylitis is just normal back pain and haven't bothered Googling. They seem like they essentially think I'm a loser looking for excuses to not like, take chances and follow my dreams or something, lol.

Idk what I'm saying here. I am having a pity party tbh lol. The medical issues seem to just be picking up speed and I can't deal

Does anyone relate? Idk what to do with this, I am actually starting antidepressants this week

Sorry about the rant but I literally have nowhere else to put it lol

But I tell people clearly what I'm dealing with and it's just in one ear and out the other, and I'm not sure if it's that people just essentially tune out anything outside of their own frame of reference? But I feel like I keep having to repeat myself, but kindly, but it is kinda getting to me

Most recently realized a retreat I signed up for included hours of consecutive sitting, and I told the organizer I had to cancel because I had AxSpa (and described what that was, and the nature of the pain) and she kept offering solutions that were very kind but they all included less and less movement lol, like she offered to bring in something so I could lay down instead of sit down, and said I could just sit during the breaks and wouldn't have to get up and move if I was in pain. And I kept having to repeat over and over "stillness is what causes the pain, it is the opposite of most back issues"

My therapist has also done this, and mentioned the other day that she was worried my biologic wouldn't keep getting approved because insurance might use the fact that I can still work an active job as proof that I didn't need it. And I had to go over again that that was the reverse back pain she was thinking about, and mine was approved specifically because I can't not be active

Idk. It's fine, I guess, these people are all doing their best, I just don't know what it is about inflammatory pain that people just seem unable to grasp?