Lyme and PT: Helpful, or Just Torture?

Last week, the rehab doc gave me a prescription for a month’s worth of PT, which is a good thing, but geez, sometimes I wish the PT people would remember that with lyme, I have MS-type symptoms instead of just recovering from an injury or surgery. Seems it’s hard for them to differentiate, so they just push everyone as hard as they can, which is not necessarily the right thing to do with lyme patients.

What ever happened to the ‘fun’ PT, where they give you massages and heating pads? Where does it say that I signed up for the torture kind, where it’s all exercises and stretches, reach here, bend there, and try not to fall on your ass in the meantime? Sheesh…

I actually did a little better on some of the PT stuff today, but then paid for it later when my body figured out what had happened to it. Rebound, and not in a good way. Hopefully the 1 step forward, 10 steps back thing will get better over time, where I won’t lose all that I gained and then some after every PT session.

If you’re assigned to PT, be sure to speak up if they’re pushing you too hard. Seems PT folks are not well versed in dealing with non-injury type rehab, so they really don’t know what to do (or NOT do) with us. Seems it’s going to be a love-hate relationship with all those pretty-colored TheraBands.<sigh>