Left Wrist Pain

My left wrist started hurting 3 years ago. It had no apparent cause. After I realized the pain wouldn’t go away, I went to my doctor. He basically told me to modify my yoga poses, because that’s when it bothered me the most, and to wear a wrist brace when doing activities that cause it to hurt and while I sleep. After doing this for a few years, it still hurts :/ My Chiropractor has adjusted it which helps momentarily but it quickly goes back to hurting again. I think the best thing to do would be to wear a wrist brace more often.

Right Knee Pain

My right knee has been hurting off and on for maybe a year, with seemingly no cause. It hurt so infrequently that I didn’t think much about it. For the past 6 months it started hurting a lot worse. I feel it all throughout my workouts, and when doing daily chores and activities. I also feel it when I’m sitting still or laying down sometimes. I talked to my chiropractor about it and after an assessment he concluded that my right inner thigh muscle needs to be strengthened. She showed me an exercise that I keep forgetting to do. So my action plan is to write myself a note and hang it up so that it will remind me to do the dang exercise!

Fatigue

Now to the least fun one. I started having unexplainable fatigue when I was in junior high school. Before when I was a kid I had tons of energy. I was bouncing off the walls, playing all the sports, and always playing with friends like a wild animal 😀 But in junior high along with what I now know as depression, came the fatigue. I also physically started feeling shitty with no answers from my doctors. I now think it was a combination of depression and a really unhealthy diet. I withdrew from sports, so I couldn’t continue eating a ridiculous amount of sugar and junk food without feeling the consequences. 

I almost always have felt tired since then. There have been times when I was so focused on diet, exercise, and socializing that it helped alleviate depression and increase my energy levels. I am still focused on those things but have run low on motivation to be that “hardcore” about it. My depression was a lot better last year, in the beginning of 2020 but throughout the winter, depression came back. I mostly have lingering fatigue from it and it is immensely hard to accomplish tasks or to derive joy from things that I do. I am currently reducing some medications that I am on so I am hoping this will increase my energy levels.

As for things that help my fatigue, I make sure I allow myself ample time to rest. This was something that used to be hard for me. I wouldn’t let myself rest because of the anxiety of “always needing to be productive”. After years of self care, I now can allow myself rest when I need it. But with depression, it’s a little hard to not give into Newton’s Law, “an object at rest stays at rest”…and then feel guilty about not doing all of the things. Lately I’ve been reminding myself of the other part of that law, “an object in motion stays in motion.” Even if I feel like not doing something because of being too tired, I have been trying to at least do a little. Frequently, once I get going then I forget about the fatigue and I end up feeling better than if I continued to lay down. All in all, it’s a delicate balance of allowing myself rest time, but not letting it turn into “too much” rest.