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rivendellroseMy neck and shoulders are in a pretty much permanent state of aching, tightness, and knots right now. Have been for the last week and a half. I wake up with neck pain, and it stays through the day, progresses into my shoulders, and then I go to sleep with it. I am unsure how much of this is carrying an increasingly heavy toddler, how much of it is chronic bad posture and a recent complete lack of exercise that doesn't involve chasing/herding/coaxing/watching a toddler or pushing a stroller, and how much might have something to do with sinus pressure and/or possibly my long-overdue impacted wisdom teeth pressing on... things. I don't even know what. Who knows what those bastards are up to. (And, yes, I have a referral to an oral surgeon literally on my desk, buuuuuut, to return to an earlier theme, I am the primary all-day caregiver to toddler, so getting put out of commission for oral surgery right now is not exactly top of my list of convenient things to do.)
It is not the level of pain that requires drugs. It is the kind that means I spend a lot of time trying to stretch, crack my back, massage out my own muscle knots, and wear a hot pad around my neck and shoulders.
Anyway. I aten't dead. Occasionally remember to even check this thing.
Edited to add Okay, I had the husband give me a back/neck massage, which definitely confirmed the oh-shit-knots situation, and I did some strategizing about what the problem(s) is(/are) and how I can fix some of them. I can't help the fact that I spend a lot of my day looking down at L and bending slightly to hold his hand, or carrying him. I can set my desk (which has been in sit-mode since we moved) back to stand-mode, which I have done, and focus on scrolling so that I'm reading or writing or editing or whatever at actual eye-height rather than down, which, due to the afore-mentioned downturn to my head because of baby, I'd started to get in the habit of not doing. I found myself reading at the bottom of my screen a lot, and that's bad. I can also just try to focus on my posture in general (which I've been trying to do, but not consistently), try to stretch in the morning and at night, and see about scheduling a real massage for once our vaccines take effect. So... gonna see about doing all of that. Because yeouch.
It is not the level of pain that requires drugs. It is the kind that means I spend a lot of time trying to stretch, crack my back, massage out my own muscle knots, and wear a hot pad around my neck and shoulders.
Anyway. I aten't dead. Occasionally remember to even check this thing.
Edited to add Okay, I had the husband give me a back/neck massage, which definitely confirmed the oh-shit-knots situation, and I did some strategizing about what the problem(s) is(/are) and how I can fix some of them. I can't help the fact that I spend a lot of my day looking down at L and bending slightly to hold his hand, or carrying him. I can set my desk (which has been in sit-mode since we moved) back to stand-mode, which I have done, and focus on scrolling so that I'm reading or writing or editing or whatever at actual eye-height rather than down, which, due to the afore-mentioned downturn to my head because of baby, I'd started to get in the habit of not doing. I found myself reading at the bottom of my screen a lot, and that's bad. I can also just try to focus on my posture in general (which I've been trying to do, but not consistently), try to stretch in the morning and at night, and see about scheduling a real massage for once our vaccines take effect. So... gonna see about doing all of that. Because yeouch.
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Date: 2021-05-26 04:21 pm (UTC)Early in eternal-lockdown I instituted a plan to get up and stretch at least once an hour during the workday. My experience is that it matters less what stretches I do than that I do them frequently, but YMMV.
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Date: 2021-05-27 04:21 am (UTC)That's good to know, honestly. I often get caught up in "what stretch will hit this exact spot?" and if what matters is doing something rather than hitting the exact right muscle group, that'll make it a hell of a lot easier to actually get the thing done.
We're getting our second shots this Friday, so I'm crossing my fingers we'll be able to start seeing people sometime in mid-June! Are you holding up okay during all of this?
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Date: 2021-05-27 03:46 pm (UTC)Also, and just tell me it's none of my business, I have found that what bra I am wearing can make a huge difference to the work-stoop.
I am three weeks out from my second shot today! And super happy to see other people at all. But otherwise, I'm mostly okay. I know a lot of people have been reporting anxiety and depression and I feel like my anxiety is all appropriate to the situation.