great news the pain is almost completely gone and i'm back to my old self. still going to physical therapy and doing new exercises there. i'm also attaching some pictures i took today while there.
before i saw improvement in physical therapy, they were giving me the needle treatment which proved very painful. the needles were hard to bear but when when she would scrap it the pain just magnified and she told me it was ok to yell or do what i needed to do. i just madly wiggled around trying to endure what had to be done. after about four on those treatments, it finally turned it around and the pain was almost non existant and i could sleep pain free.
my regular doctor came back with my lab results which showed my uric acid threw the roof and she put me on medication for that. this causes painful gout in my big toe. due to this i had to change my diet to keep the uric acid down, so i cut back on red meat by fifty percent by eating it every other day and eating more chicken. had to cut way down on sodas and increase my water intake. increasing the water intake also help eliminate those painful leg cramps i was getting. also had to cut down on seafood which i love.
up next for me in the medical department is on tuesday i have a colonocopy procedure. they will give proprofol to put me under while they scope my colon to find out why my stomach hurt from time to time and to check for polys and other stuff. i'm at that age turning 50 at the end of the year when it good to get them to find stuff early like colon cancer.
as a result of those changes i lost one pound and that's without much exercise. diet changes are more important than the working out. it took me years to except that fact but it true. as a stranger told my wife and her friend while they walked during lunchtime, "you wouldn't have to walk so much if you cut back on your eating". good advice indeed.
that's what i have this time, so take care and God bless.
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