Quickly as I freak out some more about my sexy wiggle butt

[vicarz]

So I'm a birth defect. I joke, but I've always thought of kids and I've always been dead set about genetic strength...so I'm short, old, and now it turns out my hip joint (leg bone portion) didn't form properly in my teens (so he theorizes). My outer "dimple" isn't really there - the bone is straight, very minor issue, but it means my joint does not allow my hip to flex high. When my knee goes way up, my bone presses on bone / the (labral? Cartilage?) pulls away too as the bones lever away at each other.

Great.

But the more modest than his introduction orthopedic surgeon said I have 3 options:
1) Nothing. I'm functional, just consider not doing squats past 90 degrees like I was in the olympics.
2) Cortisone shots - I can try a shot and see if it helps by reducing inflammation in the area. Something tells me another part of that is to not do what causes it to hurt in the first place.
3) Surgery - 4-12 week recovery time before lifting, but days to weeks on crutches (varies greatly). This would suture the (goop? labral? cartilage) back to the bone AND file down the bone to the shape it should be to allow greater freedom of movement in the lower squooty positions.

Terror - my dream of comfortably using foreign toilets is either crushed or may require surgery.

This is better news than I hoped, but also...my god I can't do anything. I boxed, my elbows fell apart. I ran, got shin splints. I lifted weights, my elbows and shoulders are killing me while I have a hip condition that may require dropping it or surgery, or just being not as good as I'd like
FOREVER

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[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

Is there any comfort in knowing it's NOT YOUR FAULT? Or does that just fuel your desire to prove God wrong?

Running gives me shin splints, too. Walking a lot gives me shin splints. I've known about shin splints since I was a kid. I still want to run. I will run. Cycling, which I also used to do regularly, made my hip flexors hurt all the time. After I stopped riding—here in a city where I couldn't match the hard-core riders—the pain went away. I didn't realize what a pain it was always being in pain. I've also always had headaches. I can't remember a time when I didn't have headaches. Lately, with better anxiety-management and crazy meds, I have almost no headaches. Of course my headaches as a kid were a somatic response to stress. But who wants to deal with a kid with stress? Let's just give her painkillers. I've lately wanted to try boxing. Just 'cause other people do it and it sounds thrilling. A release. Godgenics gave me giant breasts. I have the posture to prove it. My lower back is twisty and weak. Spinal stuff in yoga is easy until I hurt myself. And so on and so forth.

Bring gloves on your travels and then you can use your arms for support in the squatties.

I'm against surgery. For personal reasons. And the horror stories, which I'm sure you've read.

This sucks, dude. Be gentle with yourself.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

No, I am eugenicist fan and thought it was important that my genes help improve the soup - now I'm not so sure. Am I what should be weeded out?

I neglect the issue that when I had shin splints I got rid of them by doing strength training.

Wow, headaches sound horrible.

Boxing is so fun and so awesome, says guy with anger issues. However if you enjoy it, it is SICK exercise. I had a washboard boxing - the interval training nature of is is awesome. Sorry about the boobs, but you can muscle up around them which might help, you do need to train your back big time (may be boob related), and olympic weightlifting is a great path for that.

At least the decision is stalled. Today I may try to deadlift 405 again.

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

For a time, I was doing weight-training that incorporated squats. I can't remember how high I got before my knees gave out. I tried to do it properly (knees over ankles, legs hip-width apart, etc.) but it still hurt. Then someone told me that you shouldn't go past 90 degrees. I have such little flexibility that getting past 90 degrees with a straight back is pretty near impossible anyway (this is probably compounded by weakness in lower back), so I'm not sure that was the real problem... but anyway, I stopped squatting. What I do (when I do it, which is not at all these days) are lunges.

I have anger issues. In my mind, I have killed my annoying friends and arch-nemeses a thousand times over (the cast-iron frying pan across the head is a mental favourite). I have only punched someone else in the face a couple of times, when I was in junior high. One of the boys brought boxing gloves from home and all of us kids trundled over the hill that put us out of sight of the school and formed a ring. I wailed so hard on Andrea Morris that she said, "Okay, okay, stop, god." *ding ding* I gave a boy a nosebleed.

I suppose I also attempted to punch people in the face in karate but I was so beginner that we were not really sparring.

Boxing is super intimidating though because of the, well, dudes. Like, you have to go down some dank staircase into a basement full of dudes and be the chick who doesn't know shit and ain't strong. It's like my life writ small: fear of what other people will think, which translates into a complete confidence-suck.

One woman here who did my hair boxed. Or, did some kind of boxing-aerobic class-y thing. She was cut. I'll look into boxing when I get to TO. Maybe there's a women's class I can join.

Let us know how 405 goes. You pain-whore, you.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Guys love girls who box. It's like lifting - people think others are judging them, but we generally love anyone who tries, and tries to learn it right. Want to be judged? Do it wrong and argue it's right when told otherwise by experts.
Kardio Klasses are not boxing.

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

Well, I do have a hell of a time meeting men so I guess I should take up boxing once I get to my new city.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

That's so odd as most females I know have a hard time meeting females but meet tons of males they wish they didn't. You mean stomachable males perhaps. Boxing, sadly, doesn't attract the most socially graceful folks (but they're generally nice people and fit).

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

DUDE have you not read any of my journal? I have no trouble meeting men or women, as friends or lovers or both! Stomachable males. HAH. Yes, sometimes that is a challenge and I take some gravol and just plough on through it against my better judgement.

I don't even know what socially graceful means. Pretty sure all of my friends are social misfits.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Hey you said it, yes I see you with many opportunities.

I'm trying to both outgrow being a social misfit and stop saying I am as an excuse not to try...like "borderline autistic" guys who are really just assholes.

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wonder how many people have shrugged off my bad behaviour or explained it away in behind-my-back-gossip-fests by saying, "Well, what can you expect? She's bipolar." I'd rather people just call me a bitch.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Mine because I put out and/or was pretty so they hoped I would.

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

p.s. Are you planning to pass on these faulty genes?

[vicar.livejournal.com]

More like thought I was, now perhaps hoping to?

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

How long do you anticipate living? I think of your poor offspring having to lose their Dad while they're young. Of course I think all dads die at 49 as mine did. Ymmv.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's an issue, compensating with money and trying to be healthy and functional long-term. Tough one. However so many kids have 1, no, or horrible parents i figure the bar is low.

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

*cries*

[anarcha.livejournal.com]

Do your research before getting a cortisone shot - more and more doctors are against them - they are not without risk, and increasingly believed to be catabolic (that's bad) to cartilage and tendons.

If I were you, I'd do a helluva of a lot of research (I know you are). I'd also give some consideration to options like PRP, stem cell therapy, and prolotherapy. They are NOT proven to work, and are not covered by insurance. But I know many anecdotal examples of success, and at least they are very low risk. Cortisone is much riskier, IMHO.

FWIW, I had a cortisone shot in my ass last summer to address a sciatic nerve issue. About two months later, I had a torn hamstring tendon, VERY close to the injection site.

Hamstring took forever to heal, but turned around with the assistance of PRP.

Let me know if you want the contact info for the place I got PRP from. It's in Fairfax. I will warn you that they are true believers there, and believe everything can be fixed with PRP and stem cell. They will tell you they can fix you - it's your choice whether to believe them. I'm happy I did.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I've heard something like this. Right now I'm torn (ha!) but thinking my first duh option is a 2nd opinion.

Actually I'm bad about research and quick to trust "experts." Thanks - first I'll look up what PRP is. I've heard of stem cell stuff, not sure that would help the labrum goo untear but that's the sort of research I would need to do.

Wish I saw you 'round more so I could bug you in person, busy person! Thanks - may follow up.