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Sep. 16th, 2020 01:55 pmUgh.
I don't think I ever posted about what happened with the doctor when I went a few weeks ago -- he said not tendinitis or tennis elbow, definitely not arthritis, maybe early, early stages of an RSI, told me to a wear a brace as often as possible for a few days, take a few weeks off knitting, and gave me a referral for physical therapy that I haven't followed up on yet because I've been very stressed.
I tentatively tried to knit a little last night after a month off knitting (and it was basically just casting on! not even actually knitting!) and at the time it felt fine. Except I woke up this morning with elbow pain for the first time in weeks. Damn it. I don't want to have to take another three year break from knitting, and this would happen right after I dropped a few hundred bucks on new yarn. (This happened in 2013 too! Right after I bought new yarn!)
I get so frustrated because most knitters I know knit more than I do and don't get RSIs, so it ends up making me feel like I did something to cause this -- which I guess I did, that's the whole point of an RSI, but I just...I don't know. Posture, stress, body tension, body just not right for this, not getting enough exercise? Weather? Pure bad luck? I just want something to do with my hands during a 22-minute TV show that ends with something I like and will use, which is apparently too much to ask for.
I don't think I ever posted about what happened with the doctor when I went a few weeks ago -- he said not tendinitis or tennis elbow, definitely not arthritis, maybe early, early stages of an RSI, told me to a wear a brace as often as possible for a few days, take a few weeks off knitting, and gave me a referral for physical therapy that I haven't followed up on yet because I've been very stressed.
I tentatively tried to knit a little last night after a month off knitting (and it was basically just casting on! not even actually knitting!) and at the time it felt fine. Except I woke up this morning with elbow pain for the first time in weeks. Damn it. I don't want to have to take another three year break from knitting, and this would happen right after I dropped a few hundred bucks on new yarn. (This happened in 2013 too! Right after I bought new yarn!)
I get so frustrated because most knitters I know knit more than I do and don't get RSIs, so it ends up making me feel like I did something to cause this -- which I guess I did, that's the whole point of an RSI, but I just...I don't know. Posture, stress, body tension, body just not right for this, not getting enough exercise? Weather? Pure bad luck? I just want something to do with my hands during a 22-minute TV show that ends with something I like and will use, which is apparently too much to ask for.