Kim22 that sounds painful and no fun. I'm trying to keep up with you on your thread, but in case I don't get there, here's my best wishes and hopes for a swift resolution!
I don't have an anterior so I may have different issues but when I was using the bike at PT they set it very high. I almost could not reach the pedals, and they said not to use a recumbent for several months. I think she said something about hip flexion.
LeeApril26 Exactly! I remembered more than one person here mentioning to set the seat high. So I did, but didn't take into account the very very wide saddle (my own bike has a much smaller one). So I noticed, too late of course, that I was rocking back and forth with each leg's downswing. That and the flexion just was too much.
But! All that pain went away, and I was (was....) weaned off all ibuprofen and most tylenol, until.....
Day before yesterday, when....
I drove 100 miles, sat for 3 hours, and rode 100 more miles, with a break at 75 miles to do a thorough shopping at Costco (! I couldn't believe I just waltzed my way through that store after sitting for so long). Sitting for 6+ hours out of 9. Well, that was actually ok, as when we got home I felt fine, not too tired, no pains/aches. But. Then there was a magnificent thunderstorm, and for the second time in two weeks the basement/garage flooded. The cure for this flooding is for me to be down there laying down folded whole newspapers in the track of the water rivulets, and hubby outside sweeping water. (I do SO wish
glynis were telling this story!) So there was a lot of bending over to the floor involved, and twisting and hustling from spot to spot. By the time I ran out of newspaper (we can't have another flood till about Christmas, used up all the saved newspaper back to 2010 in these two floods) I knew I was going to pay for it. Take the ibuprofen, check, use the ice, yup, that's me all over again.
I was very pleased to find that there wasn't alot of pain, only stiffness, Monday morning. That persists still, but not alot of pain, just a couple of new spots to baby. I'm thinking I overstretched some muscles, and it should settle down quickly. But boy was I tired yesterday, and may still be today!
12 week update-- sometime last week there was another "stability and strength" moment, and I feel even more stable than 2 weeks ago. Love it. I am following a new "rule" I made regarding PT exercises: I wait till I can do a thing in ordinary life, and then I will exercise it. Some of the exercises I was given are just too repetitive and challenge the flexors too much. So I'm going up a few steps per day, say. And using my little hydraulic stepper with no pain, up to 34 steps several times a day so far. Getting out of chairs and off loo hands-free very often. Dancing confidently around twining cat population at feeding time. When I walk outside at night, I leave my cane propped on the mailbox for the first leg, and pick it up on my way back by the house. I do use it for the last few blocks of my mile, sometimes just for play, sometimes for reall.
Progress is much slower now than it was in the early weeks, but I knew to expect that from all my reading on here! Life is good!