Hi Ladies,
I just wonder if anyone else has Joint Hypermobility?
I've always been flexible and to be honest I had kindof forgotten that a doctor once "diagnosed" me as having Joint Hypermobility because it has never really affected my daily life. Yes I sit weirdly, I'm 37 and can still do the splits and I can partially dislocated my own shoulders my tensing muscles but it has never had a negative impact. Until now.
Just before Christmas I was having some twingey pain in my back that would shoot down the back of my leg which I self diagnosed as a bit of sciatica. It got to the point where I went to the doc and they prescribed some anti inflammatories and referred me to a physio. Unfortunately, the night after seeing my Doc I shifted in bed and trapped a nerve in my lower back. Agony doesn't even begin to describe the pain.
It got so bad I was sobbing and begging my husband to call an ambulance (because in my head I was thinking it would be the fastest way to get pain relief). I collapsed twice trying to get downstairs and I ended up stuck on my living room floor for twelve hours while the ambulance service told me to call my GP and my GP then cocked up my prescription and then by the afternoon what he prescribed that morning hadn't touched it so I ended up on a cocktail of naproxen, co codamol, diazapam and tramadol.
So now I'm left with nerve damage in my left leg/foot. Most of the feeling has come back in my leg but I can't feel the left hand side of my foot properly and my leg is a little weak. I've seen an Osteopath who realigned my spine and pelvis that had both twisted, causing the sciatica and the trapped nerve but the nerve takes time to recover.
Does anyone else here suffer with JHS? Have you been given any advice on how to strengthen the ligaments (I was told by my osteopath I have likely overstretched my ligaments and they're not holding my skeleton in place tightly, hence the twisted pelvis and spine). I'm terrified of trapping the nerve again but I so miss working out, I tried to follow an upper body workout but I had to stop at walkouts because I just can't bend like that at the moment. I've gone from hypermobile to pensioner and it's really upsetting.
