After struggling last week, I began this one hopeful that I'd put my injury troubles behind me and I'd take it gently while my bones healed up. Oh how wrong I was.
Monday was a great feeling 3 miler at a moderate pace, but Monday night, I couldn't sleep properly with the pain in my hip and sitting in the car for long distances has not been helping. I again left it till Thursday before trying again. The same 3 miles and again, everything eases up after the first mile so I'm almost not limping, but then I'm living off Ibuprofen.
On Thursday evening, we went to watch a local amateur production of an amateur production of Macbeth (that was the plot - I forget the real title!) which was essentially a farce and nicely done. At the interval, I was in such discomfort, I knew something had to be done, so I called the doctors magical-automated-appointment-system and got an appointment - the earliest available - for a week Friday! However, it was a start.
Yesterday, I called the doctor's surgery to moan about the wait. It turns out that they have a "bookable appointments" system for extremely un-urgent stuff, and then their normal daily appointments system for everything else. Being more urgent than extremely un-urgent, I got myself a same-day appointment, that very afternoon.
So, I go in and see the doc. He doesn't need to tell me to take a break from running - that's a given before I go in. The hip problem is not straightforward to diagnose, we agree on "dicky hip" (dicky being a very British term for "dodgy" or "not working properly) so I'm referred on to a hip specialist, for which I expect an appointment to materialise within 2 weeks. If not, then I'll be calling on my Medical Insurance once again.
Being on the Internet and thus having all manner of medical resources at my disposal, my own otherwise untrained diagnosis is bursitis. What started out as joint pain is now ligamentish and possibly muscular which might be bad. But hopefully, this will get sorted out with mainly rest and no high-impact activities. At worst, I'll have to get the bursa drained. Yummy.
So that's me done running for some time. I broke myself on the race I named myself after. I'm planning to do some swimming over the coming weeks to try and retain some fitness, but will need to balance this against the need to rest. In the meantime, I'll be reading the posts of all you fine running folk out there and feeling envious. And I plan to join you again in good time.
Mon: 3.16 miles, 30:32 minutes 9:39 pace. 11C HRAve:151 HRMax:162
Thu: 3.1 miles, 30:41 minutes 9:53 pace. 13C HRAve:148 HRMax:158
All the best.
Mr Stumble.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Having taken a whole year to make it to 30 minutes running, I'm now increasing my mileage and thinking about races ...
5 comments:
Thats bad news mate. All the best for a speedy recovery.
Hope you're not one of the unfortunate ones dealing with those flood waters!
dicky hip!, bummer.
lets pull for bursitis which would be temporary right? compared to say, arthritis. I don't know all that for sure but that's what my memory is thinking...
btw, i laughed out loud about your cake in face comment :)
Bursitis really hurts. I had it in my shoulder for years. Good luck with your continued interface with the British Medical system. On the plus side, you're in much better shape than when I heard your name first mentioned on Steve Walker's (aka Steve Runner) show. Keep up the swimming while the dodgy hip heals and remember that we are still out here and interested in what's going on in your life.
That's too bad. I hope you'll get over those problems and can rejoin the running world in the not-too-distant future. I had a problem in my hip at the beginning of the year that I suspected was bursitis, but of course that was my own internet-supported diagnosis, and I don't know if it was correct.
Hello Andy .. are you still out there?
Post a Comment