Diagnose my soreness

[banslug]

I'm curious and a bit baffled. I haven't been feeling all that well this past week. Not sick, no cold or flu, just kind of icky. So I took the entire week off of working out. Normally, I run and workout 6 days a week.

On Thursday, I woke up in the morning with a sore quad on my right side. As the day went on, it came into my left quad. It's been diminishing each day, and it actually feels like DOMS after a good leg workout. Friday, I woke up with a twinge in my elbow and pain in my upper forearm and hand....feels like a pinched nerve in my elbow (which I've had before after sleeping funny one night).

Wierd. If I had worked out all week, I'd just say it was a typical case of DOMS. But that's not it. Anybody ever have that happed to you? I'm a worrier (not warrior....a worrier...a person who worries) and so everytime there is anything unexplainable in my body, I think the worst. I feel better today, mentally, because the soreness IS subsiding, but it just makes me wonder!

Gayle

p.s. OH...and just thought I'd mention that the only thing I can think of that would cause the leg pain would be 1)I walk to and from work each day...about 3/4 mile each way, 2)my 'friend' and I laid on the floor watching a movie on Wednesday night.

 

[pixie9]

Of course I'm just guessing here, but don't think that walking to work would make your legs sore. You workout a lot so I don't think a walk of less than a mile would really affect you. I'm thinking you are actually sick and your feeling the normal aches that come with sickness.

Carolyn

 

[banslug]

Carolyn...do you think? I've never had this DOMS-like soreness when I was sick. You could be right, though. Who knows. It's baffling to me!

Thanks for your input!



Gayle

 

[Sunshine 1528]

Just a question: Did you have a flu shot last year?

I know that I have had them every year and sometimes when I have been exposed to people who have come down with the flu, I feel "icky" for a couple of days, but never end up with any of the basic symptoms or actually getting sick.

I think that working out and taking good care of myself, as you do, that many times we may be exposed and carrying some of the viruses out there but never really end up getting sick because since we are healthy, out antibodies are able to rid us of the viruses.

* * * Not a doctor here, but like to keep up and pay attention when I don't feel well. * * *

Just observences I have noticed over the past number of years - my hubby will have a very bad cold or flu and since I am eating right, sleeping and exercising, I never get sick. Even when he breathes on me all night

 

[Sunshine 1528]

Just a question: Did you have a flu shot last year?

I know that I have had them every year and sometimes when I have been exposed to people who have come down with the flu, I feel "icky" for a couple of days, but never end up with any of the basic symptoms or actually getting sick.

I think that working out and taking good care of myself, as you do, that many times we may be exposed and carrying some of the viruses out there but never really end up getting sick because since we are healthy, out antibodies are able to rid us of the viruses.

* * * Not a doctor here, but like to keep up and pay attention when I don't feel well. * * *

Just observences I have noticed over the past number of years - my hubby will have a very bad cold or flu and since I am eating right, sleeping and exercising, I never get sick. Even when he breathes on me all night

 

[Sunshine 1528]

Sorry for the double post, I actually clicked post three times 'cuz the 'puter got stuck }(

 

[queenmaynie]

Hey Gayle, I'm not sure what it is... just wanted to say that if it IS because of you and your "friend" watching that "movie", hopefully it was worth a little pain...

(Couldn't resist);-)

 

[banslug]

Jacque-No, I have not had the flu shot, but I just started working at the school cafeteria so I'm exposed every single day to all the snot-nosed kids (including my own). lol My kids and I have been very lucky the last 7+ years; we tend to not get all the illnesses that everybody around us get, so when I feel 'icky', like I was feeling, I get nervous. lol

Also, last weekend, I stayed in a suite with my date and the air conditioning (which I HATE, by the way) had me all stuffy and I felt the beginning symptoms of a cold, which I fought off pretty well without actually GETTING a cold.

THANKS!

Gayle