I wonder about that too. I remember someone on the list saying that the
burning actually decreases if you go ahead with exercise. Since you think
that the new level of pain in your left knee might be related to something
that might have happened to actually injure it, I would be careful to give
it a few days without putting it to to much strain. The usual burning,
tingling, and pain we get from TM are more or less with us all the time. A
new condition like you are experiencing might call for a little caution
though.
I think I would go for the short term rental of a chair and not miss the
show!
I hope you're up-n-at-em soon.
Don from Maryland, who hasn't been to a good craft show in awhile.
-----Original Message-----
From: JHarper33(AT)aol.com <JHarper33(AT)aol.com>
To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 12:24 PM
Subject: Rest it or work it?
>Hi gang~
>
>I have yet another question. I did something to my left knee yesterday
(have
>no idea what -- just started hurting while going upstairs) and it is
hurting a
>lot today. My right knee is the one I have the excessive tingling in at
times,
>and it has started tingling, I think because I'm bending it when I go up
and
>down stairs rather than the hurting one. I had a tingling episode a few
weeks
>ago that made me almost unable to use the stairs at all. (I DO hope our
next
>house has no stairs!!!) We were supposed to go somewhere today (a
humongous
>craft show that I've been looking forward to for ages and had planned to do
>some Christmas shopping at) that requires a lot of walking. We decided to
put
>it off til tonight or tomorrow. I don't know, for both knees, whether it
would
>be best to try to stay off them as much as possible or whether to try to
walk
>around and work them even more. Of course, it wouldn't be the end of the
world
>if I didn't get to go, but it would be a disappointment. But even beyond
this
>activity, I have often wondered about this, because sometimes moving or
>working particular muscles makes symptoms flare up even more, and I've
never
>known whether to work through it or stop. Usually any kind of flare-up dies
>back down to what's "normal" for me within a few hours or days, so I
usually
>just wait it out. I'd appreciate hearing the wisdom of your experience! :-)
>
>Barbara H.
>