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MoiraWolf Posts: 3410
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Shanti, exercise may help with Fibro, but it HURTS at first, and you have to build up slowly. Adewyn is about to start teaching Zumba classes, but it's taken her, I think she said, about 2 years to get to the point she could. If I tried to walk 2 blocks and back, I'd have to take at least 2 or 3 rest breaks to do it. Just becuase you can't walk 3 blocks, or doing so lays you up with a Fibro Flare, doesn't mean that it can't be fibro because you can't exercise. I was put on physical therapy and water therapy this winter. Every session with the PT made me hurt SO badly. The water I could do, 5 mins on an exercise bike had me hurting so much I could barely move. So I stopped doing PT and was only doing water therapy. We hurt so much, we tend to sit around, or lay around, and try not to do anything that will make us hurt more. The problem with that is the muscles atrophy. Coming back from that, as Adewyn can tell you, I'm sure, is a long and very difficult process. Yes, walking is good for us. But sometimes you have to start with walking for one minute and very gradually increase it as your tolerance builds. Don't try to run a marathon the first day! I am not a medical doctor and any medical opinion I give is based on personal experience and/or research. It is not intended to suppliment or replace your doctor. Follow at your own risk.
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