so i see him and he can't find anything significant that is causing the pain. so he sends me to an orthopedic sports med doc, dr. edwards. i go see this guy and his assistant doc does all the work which is only notable because it annoyed me. anyway... the helper doctor did the exam and then i had to have x-rays done because insurance won't pay for an MRI until that has been done. so x-rays show nothing wrong... bones are perfect and everything is fine there.
last week i had the MRI, which incidentally made me feel quite icky, and now i guess i have to make another appointment with dr. edwards to figure out the treatment plan. i have no idea what the MRI says so i'm going to try and make an appointment next week to get that going.
this is all, however, neither here nor there to this particular story... just background i guess. i ran last week monday (only 3ish miles) and from the start of the run my left lower leg near my shin was shooting pain. i didn't think anything of it at first but it didn't go away. then the next day it hurt when i walked so i haven't run all week. i've been doing lots of dog walks instead but it's not quite the same. i need to run. i need to run for my mental health as much as for my physical health. the pain was in a weird place too so it isn't a shin splint... it's more to the inside of my foot before the ankle bone and then shoots up to about the middle of my leg but to the inside of where a shin splint would typically be. today it doesn't hurt at all so we will see if i can get back to running tomorrow.
i read something really awesome on the facebook the other day. a friend of mine, and fellow runner, that i admire posted the following:
this post happened at the exact time that i needed to see it. i've been beating myself up because my pace is so slow and the runs are consistently difficult with no "easy" in sight. i regularly mourn the days when running 12 miles was easy and fun for me with barely any walk breaks. today i sometimes can't even make it a mile before i walk a little. it's humbling at best and heartbreaking at worst. i won't run with friends because i'm embarrassed that i have to walk and i don't want to be the damper that makes everyone walk all the time. it's a hard pill to swallow. i know it's all in my head (from personal experience) because when i would run with people slower than me or who needed to walk more than me it wasn't a bother. it was a welcome reprieve from pushing myself. i enjoy running with people and maybe would recover better if i did so. i just don't want to be a bother to another runner.
so i'm taking it one day at a time and hopefully the MRI has some answers.
speaking of the MRI. i experienced some really weird things during and after so i decided to research it and see if MRIs are known to effect people in a negative way. i found some interesting articles on it proving that i'm not weird. lol! if you like that sort of thing you can read the stuff i found: here, here, here, and here. during the MRI i could feel it in my right wrist. i have a permanent plate in that wrist and while there was no pain... it was weird cuz my wrist felt different than the rest of my body. i cannot describe how it felt different... just that i could feel it and maybe it was achy sort of ? besides that... when the scans were over, i was in there for about an hour for several different scans, i just felt icky. i didn't feel good. i don't know how to describe that either as i couldn't put my finger on it. i went in feeling great. happy, upbeat, ready to run afterwards... then when it was over and i was leaving i felt gross. i was unmotivated, not happy anymore, and tired. i also felt physically just icky for lack of a better word. i went home and walked the dogs with my husband and talked about the ick. so... keep that in mind if you're going to have an MRI done. you might be effected by it in a weird way or you might not. i can tell you this... i have no desire to have another one done anytime soon.
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