BKRich,

I often have a delayed pain response to physical exercise. This happened to me repeatedly during PT. It would aggravate my pain a few hours later. I found this is actually quite common. It makes it very difficult to identify which activity aggravates ones pain, though.

I walk my dog quite often. I do a loop that takes 35-40 minutes. This seems to be my tolerance limit. I went on a trip last summer where the primary activity was walking and site seeing. Within one day I had horrible pain and migraine. This lasted on and off (mostly on) for 3 weeks. It was the worst 3 week period in my life. The only thing I did that could have spiked my pain was walking; I wasn't using the computer, driving, cooking, etc.

It's definitely a trial and error system to figure out what you can tolerate. I don't really think in terms of exercise anymore. I just try to keep moving.

Good luck,
Kelly