With all my medicine craziness I got out of the routine of my water fitness class. Honestly I have trouble doing it without complications of the medicine side effects. My fatigue just limits me to the things I am able to do. Then when something tweaks the fatigue I barely feel like eating and getting out of bed. I have got on my treadmill 2 different times in the past 4 days. One day I walked 6 minutes the next I walked 8 minutes. So I am hoping I can do some water exercise today for the first time in several weeks. The class is very low impact and you are not doing a lot that can hurt you or probably for health people even break a sweat. I have been attending this class for a little over a year now. From time to time taking breaks for surgery or general hydro craziness going on. I first started going to open swim to see if I could do much in the water. I had been suggested to try a program for brain injury at a local rehabilitation. But the class was a half day or longer several times a week. I knew for sure I was not strong enough for that. When I first started the open swim I had a really hard time. I still had a programmable shunt that I could not find an adjustment that would work. And my fatigue and headaches were much worse. But I did find the humidity in the pool area did help the headache a bit. I had life guards always on edge when they saw me in the pool. I knew I was not strong enough to be in deeper than where I could stand up if I got in trouble. I was in trouble a lot. I would swim the short length of the pool. usually on my back because if is much easier for me. When and if I made it to the side I was out of breath, head hurting like no other and felt like I was dieing.I could do this 3 or 4 times during the open swim having to take 5 to 10 minutes each time to recover. But I am now doing the lowest impact water exercise. So today first day back we will see how my body and brain will adjust.
I have got on my treadmill 2 different times in the past 4 days. One day I walked 6 minutes the next I walked 8 minutes. So I am hoping I can do some water exercise today for the first time in several weeks.
The class is very low impact and you are not doing a lot that can hurt you or probably for health people even break a sweat.
I have been attending this class for a little over a year now. From time to time taking breaks for surgery or general hydro craziness going on.
I first started going to open swim to see if I could do much in the water. I had been suggested to try a program for brain injury at a local rehabilitation. But the class was a half day or longer several times a week. I knew for sure I was not strong enough for that.
When I first started the open swim I had a really hard time. I still had a programmable shunt that I could not find an adjustment that would work. And my fatigue and headaches were much worse. But I did find the humidity in the pool area did help the headache a bit.
I had life guards always on edge when they saw me in the pool. I knew I was not strong enough to be in deeper than where I could stand up if I got in trouble. I was in trouble a lot. I would swim the short length of the pool. usually on my back because if is much easier for me. When and if I made it to the side I was out of breath, head hurting like no other and felt like I was dieing.I could do this 3 or 4 times during the open swim having to take 5 to 10 minutes each time to recover.
But I am now doing the lowest impact water exercise. So today first day back we will see how my body and brain will adjust.