And the icing on the cake...

[mamagotcha]

It's been a rough few days. Besides the family sadness, my back has been more or less out since I drove back from WisCon on Memorial Day. I thought it was bursitis, and it still might be, but it's been acting sciatic too for the last two days. I went and soaked in the tub at the health center where I take Nia, and it felt great while I was in there, but it started tightening up again almost as soon as I got back to the car.

I need to fly back to Chicago soon, and I'm not at all looking forward to being on a plane.

Whine whine whine. Thanks for listening. Gonna go have another dose of Vitamin I and ice it for a while. Hope your week is going better!

Comments

[essaying.livejournal.com]

FWIW, my bursitis is generally made worse by heat. It feels good while I'm doing it, but there's hell to pay afterwards. Ice is the thing for bursitis: it's an inflammation, and heat is not the best thing for inflammation.

I often fall asleep lying on my left side with a large ice bag balanced on my right hip, and generally wake up the next morning in significantly less pain.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Gee, do you think it could be stress?

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

IF it's a muscle problem, see if you can find a massage person who does chinese massage. (My acupuncture student friend is learning it in her TCM school, but she says that many practitioners don't do it b/c it's strenuous.) It's intense, but it really does the job.

(If it's bursitis, as J suggests, then not so much, but then the TCM would be good for the inflammation, I suspect.)