Finally trying to get down for some sleep, after at least two hours of meaning to because I’m that exhausted. With the amount and quality earlier.
I don’t really want to do the split shift thing again, but it might be better anyway with the ankle thing. Going to try bracing it, and maybe that will help keep it from doing whatever ridiculous thing it’s been wanting to do.
The latest joint awesomeness: getting up feeling like somebody took a hammer to the outside knob on one ankle!
(Woken up by it sometimes, but I haven’t been sleeping well with pain in general. This particular thing has only been a problem for less than a week, though. I got maybe 5 hours before it woke me up today and I couldn’t get back to sleep.)
I also didn’t register doing anything in particular to it–which may not mean much, as klutzy as I am. No visible bruising or swelling to help explain it, though. I have whacked it against things a couple of times since it started acting up, but not that hard. And I mostly even noticed doing that because the knob was already sore, and jfc why can’t I be more careful.
I don’t think it’s a neuropathy thing, since it really doesn’t feel like any nerve pain I’ve run into. And the regular pain meds do calm it down some, unlike any other nerve pain IME. I’ve been failing at trying to stay off the ankle more, but it does calm down some eventually during the day. Definitely feels like a variation on the good old “slept on it wrong” phenomenon. Never had this specific issue before, though.
Best guess after looking into it a little? May well be tendinitis aggravated by something I’m doing while I’m asleep. As much as I used to get any kind of bendy joint problem blamed on tendinitis if they couldn’t immediately figure out what was going on. So, I hesitate to assume anything is coming from tendinitis. *wry smile*
Really doesn’t feel like any normal-for-me subluxation, and that’s the main explanation I can find for sharp unexplained pain right over the knob. Yay wonky soft tissue, in general 😒
So, I’m tempted to try bracing it before bed, and hope that might keep the ankle from doing stupid shit. Rather than making things worse, which is always a possibility too with Ridiculous Joint Tricks.
going up stairs? more like forgetting where your kneecaps belong
*shifts position slightly*
*sickening crunch in 4 different body parts*
The Media: flexible people are Sexy 😉
Actual hypermobile people: check out this gross thing I can do with my arm
Normal people unfortunately anywhere in the vicinity of the aforementioned hypermobile people: I will pay you $10 to stop doing that thing with your arm immediately
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 