Just wondered if anyone else has had this feeling or knows what it is?! The best I can describe it is as a gut 'ugh' and shudder reaction! Not pain in the parts of the body I'm working on (calf muscles, ankles etc), but a weird sensation which is like the shudder of dry cotton wool squeaking on teeth, (nails on chalk board etc)... Am I totally weird or is this 'a thing' or explicable in some way?
For context: I started some very gentle Physio rehab this week, which am very hopeful about. The Physio is very good and experienced at errr, difficult cases! Trying to start from a very low point indeed, I'm substantially disabled and can barely stand for a few seconds let alone walk, but having got some of the underlying issues as sorted as they can be, I'm starting out again on the physio thing. Years ago I tried to work my way out of my illness when my body started to go wrong and just managed to precipitate myself into a drastic deterioration instead. Physio, Pilates, aqua swim, hydrotherapy all multiple times a week on top of an intense job and a baby, loads of hard work and believing if I just tried hard enough I'd 'beat' it, which was a rather big error of judgement. This time I'm more expert at my own limits and the way my body sneakily recruits every and any other muscles to do the job of the muscles that need to start working again. Physiotherapist is much more informed too. So starting small. Actually I saw her first a few months ago and she suggested heel raises and going from sitting to standing better, and even that was too much for my reluctant body, so she's now gone much smaller and more focused e.g heel raising but no weight on them, and lifting my lower leg just 2-3 inches up and down ... So very careful and not worried that I'm overdoing it.
Anyway, that's just background really, but doing the exercises she's given me makes me actually vomit! It's like a nails on a chalkboard feeling when I'm trying to do them and I feel so nauseous I'm sitting here with a vomit bowl on my lap as I try and make my muscles move again.
What is it? Any ideas? And if I push on through will it fade? I'm pretty sure it's not related to the conditions I have, and instinctively I feel like it's something to do with trying to force my body to work in ways it doesn't know how to do anymore?
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Weird sensation when doing physio to try and activate very unused muscles
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MiscellaneousAssortment · 01/07/2016 00:28
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