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Aug. 16th, 2011 07:03 pmSo these exercises the PT gave me. It's too soon to tell whether they're making the dizziness go away, because the dizzy thing has frankly been on the back burner while the jaw thing has retaken center stage - three, four days of issues with the actual joint and its muscles (which I may have re-aggravated last night in a moment of stretchy optimism) and seven days and counting of issues with the nerves, which are just firing when they damn please - and who needs cranio-facial nerves anyway, I ask you?! Anyway. The PT exercises are, so far, helping quite a lot with the nerves-in-the-jaw thing, which is just making me more and more convinced that everything going wrong with the right side of my body is all of a piece.
These are really simple flexibility stretches they have me doing, and not many reps, either, and (a) I can totally feel that my right shoulder is much stiffer than my left, and (b) if I do them while my nerve is flaring up it generally settles down by the time I'm done. But I'm only meant to do them twice a day and I don't want to overdo things and hurt myself in some new and creative way. I'll have to ask tomorrow morning if I can do extra sets when the jaw is being particularly difficult.
Yesterday the therapist was very gently doing pushy stretchy things (I didn't ask, but I suspect they may have been things a chiropractor would have done much more quickly) with my shoulder (and I came home feeling like my right arm was half an inch longer than it had been when I went in), and poking carefully to see if there were tender spots on my neck; she found one that I said felt sort of tender, yes, but it's hard for me to call it accurately because it's so far on the other side of the boundary between discomfort and pain, right - when my jaw hurts it hurts so much that I've stopped almost even noticing when something aches a bit. She made a note and went poking about some other bits of my shoulders and collarbone and so on, and came back up again, and found a spot that I said yes, that feels sort of tender too, and wouldn't you know it was the same spot.
"Look at that," I said. "Science."
These are really simple flexibility stretches they have me doing, and not many reps, either, and (a) I can totally feel that my right shoulder is much stiffer than my left, and (b) if I do them while my nerve is flaring up it generally settles down by the time I'm done. But I'm only meant to do them twice a day and I don't want to overdo things and hurt myself in some new and creative way. I'll have to ask tomorrow morning if I can do extra sets when the jaw is being particularly difficult.
Yesterday the therapist was very gently doing pushy stretchy things (I didn't ask, but I suspect they may have been things a chiropractor would have done much more quickly) with my shoulder (and I came home feeling like my right arm was half an inch longer than it had been when I went in), and poking carefully to see if there were tender spots on my neck; she found one that I said felt sort of tender, yes, but it's hard for me to call it accurately because it's so far on the other side of the boundary between discomfort and pain, right - when my jaw hurts it hurts so much that I've stopped almost even noticing when something aches a bit. She made a note and went poking about some other bits of my shoulders and collarbone and so on, and came back up again, and found a spot that I said yes, that feels sort of tender too, and wouldn't you know it was the same spot.
"Look at that," I said. "Science."
