Today I learned not to jump right back into it
I’ll be honest I have no idea what to tag this under so let me know if it tagged it wrong so I can fix it. So I have Chrons, Pots, and likely EDS. I only say likely because though my therapist is 99% sure she says only a geneticist can diagnose it and there’s only like 1 in my area and they have like a year long backlist and since she would be treating me the same way no matter what it doesn’t seem prudent right now to focus on it. Anyways I’ve been going for maybe 6 or so months now and am definitely improving. I see her once a week up until recently when we decided to move to every other week. However me and my mom (who helps me manage appointments and such) have ADD. So after my last appointment we forgot to schedule new ones… for weeks. And she’s back up so even when I make an appointment now I wound see her till January. Which would be fine. Problem is, I have excersizes I’m supposed to do every day and I’m super bad at it. When I go to visit her I get on track for a few days before falling off again. So since I haven’t seen her in weeks, probably close to a month. I had comepletly fallen off. I did it a few day last week when I remembered but forgot again. I’ve been off for about a week due to a meds issue and my period and finally felt better today. Tonight I remembered and tried to just do one. It’s where I lay on my back and have 8 pound weights in each hand and simply extend and bend my arm doing three sets of eight. When I started this 6 months ago I used 3 pound weights and worked my way up. Well I used the 8 pounds and struggled but I didn’t feel like I was that bad. However about 1 -2 minutes (maybe less) later I started getting acid reflux. Now I’m an emetophobe so I panicked. Not sure why this set me off so much because I knew I wasn’t going to be sick since it was very clearly and painfully acid reflux. However it still took me a while to calm down and even though I finally calmed down I’m still in pain. Reflux in throat feels like it’s mostly gone but getting short stabbing burst of pain in my sternum and throat. So I think I need to work my way back up to 8 pounds. Anyways took some dicyclomine and tums and just waiting for pain relief go to dull rather than sharp before I sleep.