Most of us at one time or another get hurt or injured. Spinal stenosis is not something to take casually!
Over use injures take a lot longer to heal as I have been training for over 5 decades. You have had a lot of fun and you have probably not stretched enough.
Perhaps your technique changed, your boots and/or shoes are worn out, or you over extended yourself.
Some of the areas of treatment you may have tried are medication from the doctor, the chiropractor, physiotherapist, certain exercises, ice and heat therapy.
Mental anguish happens to varying degrees and it is no fun. Sometimes you do not want to out of bed. To even think about standing which you know is going to hurt, keeps you sitting.
Being injured affects not only you but those around you. Your family, workmates and especially your spouse, all are concerned. The longer you are injured the more everything around you changes. They continue to ski and you are left behind.
Its very hard not to eat lots, and you gain weight, as food for some is a comfort.
Limping everywhere, bent over and bow legged like an old man, hurting and in pain is just not fun. The pins and needles, fussiness, in the legs is not pleasant.
Crawling literally into bed and then silently crying while trying to go to sleep because you are in pain is just not fun.
When your hips stop hurting for a short period then your hip flexor or knee hurts instead. The doc says that I need a knee replacement in the next few years and many of my friends have already done so.
You wonder how much longer??!! I have been told that 1 to 2 years before there might be a fairly full recovery is perhaps a possibility. Surgery is not really an option, as many studies show that in 2-8 years the ones opting for surgery are no further ahead.
You cannot push too hard or too easy. No one can tell you exactly either so you are an experiment of one.
Ah well, pass me the Advil and I will go for a short easy bike ride, as the snow has all disappeared for this year. :)
Well 7 more months have passed and I am a bit more mobile. Being almost bed ridden for several months has made me realize just how precious being healthy and mobile really is. I have gained over 15 pounds in the last year. My maximum heart has dropped from 187 to 160 in the last year. Resting HR has gone up from 39-44 to 49-53. I have used HR monitors since 1979, so I know a fair amount on how to use them. I have not done any MVO2 tests for some time, but I fear it might have dropped about 25-30 numbers too, guessing low 40's now. Well I hope to have a good year coaching, and get in some skiing.
