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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 90254" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Exercise - you do what you can gently, as much as you can every day without wiping yourself out. Don't jog; walk instead. If you can maintain a single exercise session until your pulse goes up, then this is good. Try and exercise to that extent at least three times a week, but if you can't do it without really hitting the wall, then ease back to where you can exercise without being a mess later on. Find your level and try to maintain it. If you ever can, extend it ever so slightly, a bit more each time. Extend- stabilise for a bit. Then extend again. But keep it up at the level you can handle it. If suddenly you can't handle it, treat it like snakes and ladders - go back a few squares and start from a lower level and slowly work up again.</p><p></p><p>Stretches are really good, even if you are too exhausted to exercise. Stretches get your body ready to do whatever it can. They also open you up if you've been closing in on yourself physically. Stretch up and back but never to the point of pain. Don't bounce into a stretch, just stretch, hold, release. Breathe deep. Enjoy. Feel good.</p><p></p><p>If you can do this regularly, at least three times a week, you will benefit. Every day - even better, if you can. It can also help the pain. If the pain gets worse, ease back again. As the condition fluctuates (for all sorts of reasons) you may find yourself all over the place with exercise; don't be disheartened. It happens.</p><p></p><p>Treat the symptoms. Try to keep the pain controlled. Keep your doctor fully informed. Keep a diary logging how you feel each day on a scale of 1 to 10. That way you don't have to exert memory cells on stuff that is illness-centred; the book has t he info, you can forget it and enjoy life as much as the fibro will let you, and refer to the diary if you need to tell the doctor anything.</p><p></p><p>Learn to listen to your body, that is the most important thing of all.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 90254, member: 1991"] Exercise - you do what you can gently, as much as you can every day without wiping yourself out. Don't jog; walk instead. If you can maintain a single exercise session until your pulse goes up, then this is good. Try and exercise to that extent at least three times a week, but if you can't do it without really hitting the wall, then ease back to where you can exercise without being a mess later on. Find your level and try to maintain it. If you ever can, extend it ever so slightly, a bit more each time. Extend- stabilise for a bit. Then extend again. But keep it up at the level you can handle it. If suddenly you can't handle it, treat it like snakes and ladders - go back a few squares and start from a lower level and slowly work up again. Stretches are really good, even if you are too exhausted to exercise. Stretches get your body ready to do whatever it can. They also open you up if you've been closing in on yourself physically. Stretch up and back but never to the point of pain. Don't bounce into a stretch, just stretch, hold, release. Breathe deep. Enjoy. Feel good. If you can do this regularly, at least three times a week, you will benefit. Every day - even better, if you can. It can also help the pain. If the pain gets worse, ease back again. As the condition fluctuates (for all sorts of reasons) you may find yourself all over the place with exercise; don't be disheartened. It happens. Treat the symptoms. Try to keep the pain controlled. Keep your doctor fully informed. Keep a diary logging how you feel each day on a scale of 1 to 10. That way you don't have to exert memory cells on stuff that is illness-centred; the book has t he info, you can forget it and enjoy life as much as the fibro will let you, and refer to the diary if you need to tell the doctor anything. Learn to listen to your body, that is the most important thing of all. Marg [/QUOTE]
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