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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,020
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Elder
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,020
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I'm doing physical therapy.
They're giving me balance exercises, but they're also making me do things to build up my strength (that's working, I feel a ton stronger than I did 2mos ago)
Some of the balance exercises dont seem to be helping (one where you stand with your feet together, and close your eyes. I always get dizzy with that one. I refuse to do that one now) but the ones that are supposed to build up strength are working, and I think now that I'm stronger feeling, I dont feel like I'm going to fall down all the time.
I do think, on the whole, that the PT is helping me, maybe not for everything they sent me there for, but it's helping me enough that I'm still going back every week.
They havent put me up on a treadmill or the bike yet, but I have gone to the gym on my own time and used a recumbent bike there, which I think is also helping. I want to do the treadmill, but the PT techs told me not to try until they help me do it.
About a month ago, I was going to quit PT, and one of the girls at the PT place told me to keep up with it for awhile longer. Glad I did. I do think that PT will help, if anything they'll keep you moving and if you're dizzy it's better to exercise with someone helping you so that you wont hurt yourself.
I still dont feel all that great from the MS, but I do think I'm feeling better than I was in early february when my dad took me to buy a rollator because I could barely walk across my bedroom. (I dont use the rollator now except for when I get out of bed with a killer charley horse. Use it to get out of bed really fast, and hold onto if the charley horse is really bad)
I'm still carrying a cane with me everywhere I go, but I tend to forget it a lot, and I probably dont need it except for the times when I get up and start walking across the room and all of a sudden a leg decides to go in a direction that I didnt tell it to go in.
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