Yesterday was the third pole dancing lesson. Because I strained my shoulder last week and I didn't want to re-injure it, I felt like I was cheating all class. I didn't do the pole slide or the fireman spin. I didn't do the full motion in the cat set on the floor. But the funniest thing that hurt the most: Running my hands across my body. There was something in the way my shoulder had to rotate that caused a little bit of pain. But I need to step it up a little bit this week. I felt so weak on top of the shoulder. I took last week to easy.
My sore places this week: Inside, outside, back, and front of my left hip and both of my hamstrings. It's kind of puzzling that it's always something different that hurts each week. I'm not sure how we find new muscles when we do the same stuff each week but we do.
I'm just going to put the update about the rest of my week into this entry because I don't feel like writing multiple ones today.
I had my doctors appointment on Wednesday. (My supervisor must wonder why it is that I have appointments every Wednesday in a month except one, but she doesn't ask.) We are maintaining the level of the stabilizer that I'm on (its like lamicatol but I'm not sure about the spelling) but we are now adding celexa (an antidepressant). Hopefully we can stop these slumps and improve my ability to concentrate by the time I go back to school. Cross you fingers.
When I go to the doctors, I always get myself weighed. I make a point of not owning a scale. I would watch it way to much. But I do make a point of getting weighed monthly when I have my doctors visit. Some of the drugs that you go on when you're bipolar (or depressed or have any other mental illness) can make you gain or loose weight rapidly. It's good to check regularly therefore. But what I'm doing seems to be working. The eating right and watching my portion size, the pole dancing, the 500 stairs a day Monday to Friday, and any other exercise I can manage to fit in. I've lost 6 pounds! But I've put on muscle so it's probably more fat weight than that. Woo Hoo!!!! Some people may not think that 6 pounds is a lot but between the completely sedentary job that I have and the gaining possibilities of the drugs, I'm really excited about 6 pounds. Hopefully the scale reads even better next month. I really need to go clothes shopping. Especially for pants. My pants are so big that they are falling off of my hips and if I pull them out (so they are tight against my back) it looks like I could almost fit 2 of me in there. Go me. Shopping - 2 weeks; after I get my next budgeted amount for clothing. I'm trying hard to be good to my budget.
In other news, I hate pharmacies! I'm currently using the shoppers drug mart by my house and they f*cked up again! They had written the directions on my prescription wrong (take 1 pill once a day). Since I'm taking 2 pills twice a day, I'm running out of them faster than they think I should. And because they wrote it wrong, my coverage doesn't want to let me have more till the 3 month mark (I received a prescription for 100 tablets). So I'm going to have to force them to correct this with the insurance company and then get the pills. Then I'm changing pharmacies. There is a rexall down the street as well and it's nice and quite. Hopefully they're competent as well. Wish me luck on this front. I hate pharmacies!
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MEl, you need to go to physio if you are having that much pain. Not wanting to sound superior or anything, but I think it would help you with your hip. as much as exercise can help, an assesment by a professional will do wonders.
I totally support your move to a local pharmacy. I live in Spruce Grove, but I go to a Pharmacy in Lendrum I like it so much. One Pharmacist keeping crazy hours who knows me and Jenn by name and goes out of his way to deal with the Insurance side of things for us.
-Plug for Guardian Drugs - Lendrum-
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