Nov 10, 2010

Arthritis,Exercise, Neck Pain

Being someone who just doesn't have the ability to ease into anything, I walked my minimum 3 miles @ 3mph. Kept the incline to novice levels and experienced some pain in the left foot the last 30 minutes. Took off the shoes and walked on the treadmill barefoot. Little stiff this morning but felt good.

Almost finished with my PT miracle work for the neck. Feeling pretty good about no longer needing a neck transplant! A joke my neurologist used to make. Haha......
My PT also shared with me a stretch. Laying on your back, arms overhead gently twist opposite directions (arms to waist). My brothers used to do the same stretch in karate class. So, no more sciatica (literally a pain in the ass!). AMAZING!!

A classmate of mine died last night, she had just celebrated her 46th birthday. We just cannot know how much time we have in this life. Being as healthy as possible allows the energy to give to others and share the love we have. Life is temporal, eternity is forever.

Nov 9, 2010

Arthritis Treatment

The magic number for me has been 7 months. Almost exactly seven months ago I started taking 100 mg. of antibiotic (Minocyline) twice a day for Psoriatic Arthritis. I have been pain free for over a week and will cut back to 1 per day. How great it would have been to learn this 12 years ago when the pain started! Not to mention all the time, money and frustration spent on the myriad of treatments that didn't work.
Total cost:
2 office visits @80.00= $160.00
Generic antibiotic x 7mos= 70.00
How about that!
Benefit: Priceless

Back to exercise daily and living a normal life. Will continue to update just to reinforce for anyone who would like to start living their life by eliminating Arthritis.