Exercise

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My husband says that if his sugar is too high when he exercises it goes

higher. I don't understand this.

Yvette

At 09:36 AM 8/14/99 -0500, you wrote:

> This was also in my newsletter, can anyone explain the reason behind

>this? Mike Don't exercise when your blood sugar is over 240.

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Mike Wells wrote:

<< This was also in my newsletter, can anyone explain the reason behind

this?

Don't exercise when your blood sugar is over 240. >>

I have been ignoring the responses to this question. I *think* the reasoning

is they are afraid you will go into lactic acidosis - a potentially

dangerous condition.

Susie

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, I know exactly what you are talking about with the shin pain. I have had

it for awhile now. My legs fell little I have hiked up a mountain. And ache so

bad and cramp. They also hurt in the outside of my leg. It is like a sharp

stabbing pain. I do agree with ya'll on the exercise. buy the time I do the

things I " have " to do which is really not that much compared to the life I led

before. but seems like tons now. I am totally exhausted. I take a nap almost

everyday and some days I say on the couch all day.....Jena

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Re: exercise

Hi Tommie,

Yes, I have tried to exercise and in the somewhat first of this I could some

but now th epain is so bad that when I try to do much I end up paying for it for

a week. Right now I am having some knee and leg issues and I don't know if it's

the fibro or what but they hurt so bad and the shin bones feel like they are on

fire. The doctor told me to wear compression hose, well, I tried and was

exhausted by the time I got the darn things on. Then I had to take them off

cause they were cutting into me at the top, look and felt like cutting off

circulation in that area and I measured my calves before ordering so i could get

them big enough. ~sigh. I get so depressed when I try to do something and give

out. Just sit there and look at stuff that needs to be done and end up crying.

So, I try to do a little at a time until I just can't go no more. You are not

alone, we are here with and for you.

Hugs and Happy Easter,

Tommie wrote:

Does anyone with fms try to exercise? Do you all live sedentary lives like I

do? I want so bad to do physical things and am very depressed because I just

can't. It's too painful.

My new Pulmonologist had me to walk for 6 mins in his office a couple of wks

ago and it put me down for a whole week. Then a week after that I went through a

full day of testing for him at the hospital. I walked to the first test and then

got lost going to the second one, finally made it to that one, but called my son

on the way to have him come back up there and push me in a wheel chair. Again, I

spent a week in horrible pain. This was just last Friday and I'm still not back

to normal.

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My mother is always telling me that I have to get some exercise. I

tell her that I do not lay in bed all day but she says that watching

my 2 yr old great niece does not count as exercise. I try to do

things but I hurt so badly afterwards. AFter cleaning the bathroom

and cleaning the livingroom I am in so much pain for several days

afterwards. No one understands my pain because it is something that

no one can see.

I am going to try to get a treadmill and see if I can handle doing a

lil bit of walking a couple times a day. If I can't handle that then

I don't know what I will do. I saw a dvd at the library that is

exercises that you can do sitting down. I am thinking about trying

that also. It sucks that it hurts so much to move. I used to always

be out in the yard with the kids playing volleyball and stuff like

that and it really has me upset that I can't do that any longer.

Beth

Md

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> Does anyone with fms try to exercise? Do you all live sedentary

lives like I do? I want so bad to do physical things and am very

depressed because I just can't. It's too painful.

> My new Pulmonologist had me to walk for 6 mins in his office a

couple of wks ago and it put me down for a whole week. Then a week

after that I went through a full day of testing for him at the

hospital. I walked to the first test and then got lost going to the

second one, finally made it to that one, but called my son on the way

to have him come back up there and push me in a wheel chair. Again, I

spent a week in horrible pain. This was just last Friday and I'm

still not back to normal.

>

> Do any of you have this same problem? I'm feeling so very alone

today and depressed.

> ~Tommie~

> www.myspace.com/tommiejj

> PH, CFS, FMS, Diabetes, Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome

>

>

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Tommie,

Have you ever tried swim therapy? I've had an Rx for it, but haven't tried it.

They say it works really well for fibro. The Rx I had wasn't exactly what the

rehab place needed, and I never went back to the rheumatologist to get a new

one, but I would really like to give that a try after the boys go back to school

this fall. (I keep thinking I'm going to be less busy for some reason! LOL

I'll have three in three different activities. I'd better get my exercise in

during the morning hours!!!)

Chelle

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I'd have to ask my docs about that now that I have all of this heart and lung

stuff going on.

But I'll see. I've been told in the past that I could and I tried it. But the

fatigue was too much. I had such a hard time getting to the YMCA on a consistent

basis and then the pain that working out brought. I never know when enough is

enough and always overdo when my muscles aren't sore. I'm sure you've all done

this too. It's being able to stop before your muscles are over cooked.

Exercise

Tommie,

Have you ever tried swim therapy? I've had an Rx for it, but haven't tried it.

They say it works really well for fibro. The Rx I had wasn't exactly what the

rehab place needed, and I never went back to the rheumatologist to get a new

one, but I would really like to give that a try after the boys go back to school

this fall. (I keep thinking I'm going to be less busy for some reason! LOL I'll

have three in three different activities. I'd better get my exercise in during

the morning hours!!!)

Chelle

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You are so right Donnie and I've got to somehow push through so I can build an

endurance, but that is so hard. I don't have enough pain meds to allow me to get

through something like that.

Exercise

Tommie,

Have you ever tried swim therapy? I've had an Rx for it, but haven't tried it.

They say it works really well for fibro. The Rx I had wasn't exactly what the

rehab place needed, and I never went back to the rheumatologist to get a new

one, but I would really like to give that a try after the boys go back to school

this fall. (I keep thinking I'm going to be less busy for some reason! LOL I'll

have three in three different activities. I'd better get my exercise in during

the morning hours!!!)

Chelle

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Thanks Diane. I just couldn't take the side effects. They were worse than the

withdrawal. I've been much better today, so I think it's out of my system.

Chelle

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LOL Chelle,

We all tend to bite off more than we can chew at times. We learn from it, sure.

But the lesson seems to fade over time and we do it all over again. Because

there is just too much of life to live and we never feel up to living it. So we

choose to do it anyway and pay the price later. As I type this, I realize, my

over doing days are past me. I cannot do to over do anymore. lol Now I just

suffer in pain from doing NOTHING. I've had a really bad week this past week and

it's still lingering. I'm hurting so very bad and have been since the right

heart cath was done. I don't know what the deal is and then we got rain

yesterday so that's playing a part in this. My pain meds aren't doing the trick

at all. I've even taken 3 of them at a time and I don't have the supply to be

doing that. I'll run out about a week early. Such as life though, huh?

I'm sorry you had such bad side affects from the Zyprexa. My sister had the same

problem and had to go off them for the same reason. It's a great med, but people

just can't do that large weight gain. They need to take if off the market and

add something for an appetite suppressant. That's my thought anyway. lol It's a

shame to let a good drug go to waste, because just like you, it really helped my

sister allot.

Hugs, I hope you can sleep soon and get rested up.

Tommie

Re: Exercise

Tommie,

I've definitely managed to over do it. On numerous occasions, and then pay for

it for days.

Right now I'm going through withdrawal from zyprexa and feel like absolute

crap. It's been three days off, and I'm just hitting the beginning of the

withdrawal. It was working great for the mental stuff, but it had awful side

effects - I gained 15 pounds in 3 weeks, and was having horrible abdominal pain

and bloating every night - I looked like I was about to give birth!

So off it I went, without talking to the doctor of course. I feel like sh*t,

if you know what I mean. I can't do anything - just want to sleep, but can't.

I'm so exhausted at the moment I can hardly type! So much for getting to the gym

and being so positive, huh??? Me and my big mouth!

Chelle