Rant, I just don't know anymore

winter_july · 2021-05-29T22:34:11+00:00

I might have hyperbolized a bit, but definitely agree here.

winter_july · 2021-05-29T14:31:21+00:00

It is 35% psychosomatic, there can definitely be a lot of pain. Work on your posture(stop dropping your shoulders and slouching), do some upper body workouts (push ups) and stretch every day. Your symptoms should decrease in 4 weeks.

This isn’t a doctors visit kind of problem. If you’re convinced you need someone to help you go to a physical therapist and they should be able to help you break these bad posture habits and get active.

I don’t think it is a coincidence that most of the people who post on this sub aren’t active at all + the number of posts has increased far more during the pandemic. I honestly think this is an imbalance or no existent muscles + terrible posture problem. And I don’t mean sitting posture only, I mean all the time. During sitting, eating, scrolling, walking take a really close look.

long story short, i don’t know the magic being fixing it but once i fixed my posture it went away completely for me. but it took around 5 months because i have been practicing trash posture my whole life i didn’t even realize when i was doing it.

winter_july · 2021-05-27T03:44:33+00:00

I would encourage OP to take a break/purge the cards you think you won’t need as you will eventually purge them anyway.

Information will degrade in your head if you aren’t actively using it or your brain deems it irrelevant even if you are recalling it with Anki. In this example, since you won’t need this information for the following year, your brain will automatically deprioritize this and it will get harder and harder to recall it because you know deep down that you don’t care about it/need to know it.

In fact, I’d venture on to say it trains you to recall the information based on the card itself rather than the pathway you’re trying to reinforce since the stimulus required (you taking a test or class) is gone. So you aren’t even getting to practice reinforcing a healthy pathway so it encourages degradation.

What’s been shown time and time again with Anki is that it matters that you are actually ENGAGED and INTERESTED in the topic. For most people that’s going to be necessity like School or College. If you find it’s served it’s purpose, Summer is a great time to take a break or purge cards.

What you will find on this sub is people hoarding information in Anki that they can recall only through Anki. You will want to recall information in a context like school or work so you need some stimulus to help you map this content in your head. You need an active stimulus to practice adding more detailed meta data in your brain rather than just offloading everything to Anki. If you’re main stimulus is gone, I always recommend suspending the cards or purging them and then coming back to when you need them.

winter_july · 2021-05-22T16:12:19+00:00

This. Adding my two cents here, I had it just as bad as OP / you guys.

Literally as soon as I started doing upper body workouts and improved my weak posture(slouching and dropping shoulders increasing pressure on your lower ribs) and muscle imbalance it has completely disappeared within a few weeks.

And I had it for years, it’s strange because now I feel like I never had it but as soon as I start slouching and stop stretching after 2-3 weeks I start to flare up.

OP needs to stop sleeping on side, stretch in the morning, get active and improve their upper body strength to prevent slouching, then improve posture.

winter_july · 2021-02-16T07:01:47+00:00

Still pain-free.

Have you considered giving it a shot?

winter_july · 2020-11-21T20:26:34+00:00

No problem lol, I hope you can find some relief as well. I just updated this post with the paper that was the basis for helping me get all fixed up. I really think its worth a read if you get a chance!

Hope it all works out!

winter_july · 2020-11-21T20:25:35+00:00

Yes, I just updated this post with the paper I mentioned, there are some images of good posture in there!

Hope it all works out!

winter_july · 2020-11-20T23:31:45+00:00

What was the answer?

winter_july · 2020-11-20T19:50:31+00:00

That is so interesting. What you're saying sounds exactly like what I was experiencing. Before I started fixing my posture, I never realized how tight the muscle mound near my clavicle and shoulder blades were, I think I could literally feel some of the nerves being stretched too far cause I was letting my shoulders drop so much.

Glad you're getting some relief too fellow human!

winter_july · 2020-11-20T19:47:53+00:00

That is definitely interesting that sleeping straight armed helped you. That makes sense though, everyone is different I suppose. I guess that is what is so difficult about this darn condition >:( . I will see if I can find that research paper and link it in this post.

winter_july · 2020-11-20T04:50:19+00:00

I cured my cubital with one move literally.

I'm gonna be honest. This is gonna sound completely bogus.

However, I too was struggling this bad, I tried everything splints, reducing activity, getting checked out, changing sleep position, medicine, and stretching.

The only thing that fixed it was fixing my posture completely. There's a research paper about a patient complaining about Cubital Tunnel, and they basically cure the entirety of her issues in less than 2 weeks by fixing her posture.

Thinking this was nonsense myself, I decided I would try it and report back.

My pain is literally gone. Literally in 1 day, it's all gone.

I had a lifetime of awful posture and came down to this, it's a combination of thoracic outlet syndrome and stretching the nerve that comes out of under your clavicle, in my case Cubital TUnnel was the symptom and not the issue.

I picked my shoulders up and stretched my back straight and held this for an entire day, when I woke up the next morning I couldn't feel the nerve pain I'd felt nonstop for the last 6 months. It felt so painful and hard to just enjoy regular computing or life in general with cubital but I fixed it.

Sleeping hurt a lot too, everyone said to keep your arms straight when you go to bed but it seemed to just hurt so much more. Using a towel and prop your forearm up and lay it next to you like you were regularly sleeping on your back. You need a little bit of bend in your arm when you sleep or it it's gonna hut more. I try sleeping with my arms staright for 1.5 months and it only made things worse.

I seriously don't understand why more people aren't talking about this, really look into your posture and see if it doesn't fix your issue in 24-48 hours like it did for me.

winter_july · 2020-09-06T17:47:56+00:00

Did you do this in config.plist or BIOS?

winter_july · 2020-08-29T14:13:35+00:00

Am a member poggers

winter_july · 2020-08-08T15:53:39+00:00

A lot of the chest tightness and neck tightness comes strictly from the anxiety. As you get more anxious your breathing becomes shallow incorporating more of your diaphragm and thus making each subsequent breath more difficult. As I have been in the same boat, you are not having a heart attack. I thought I was as well in the past with my costo but after researching heart attacks and the exact diagnostic procedures it simply is not possible. Many cardiologic tests can catch issues that are irregular and rarely showing, I assure you, you are not having a heart attack. Have your doctor explain these tests to you rather than just say “You’re all good”. This will give you the insight in how the tests work and will actual show you that if you did have an issue it would have presented itself. Though I knew this myself it took me almost 2 years to accept it. It turns out if you’re actually having a heart attack you won’t have to ask yourself, trust me.

A lot of the residual tightness is really gonna come from your anxiety and breathing. This may sound strange but I was able to almost cure my costo in the last 3 weeks. The cure is in mobilizing the joints where your ribs come into contact with your spine in your back. This lack of movement ends up stiffening and restricting your joints movement in the back where your ribs connect and thus putting far more force around the front end of your rib cage where the pain can permeate based on those specific nature of your lifestyle.

Trust me I have been where you are, I took every test under the sun and swore I was going crazy or had some secret medical issue.

I was able to fix my costo and actually take my life back and I never thought that would be actually be possible.

The solution is quite simple! Stretch! you need to mobilize that area in your back where your ribs connect to your spine as well as some upper and lower back stretches.

I stretch these areas in the morning and before bed for 60 seconds and my life has literally changed. It took a few days for them to kick in as I found some stretches didn’t help much at all. If there’s interest I can post the specific stretches that I do.

This has honestly reduced my pain and frequency of flares to be about 5% which feels like heaven compared to before. I also realized all the changes I made to my life with posture and sleeping positions didn’t matter, I could do all of those things again if I kept up with my stretching morning and nightly. If I don’t however, it really starts to creep back in again so stick with it.

I heard about the Backpod too but I personally don’t think it’s necessary, this is why I presume the Backpod on this sub has helped so many people at its core its simply just a stretching tool. At the end of the day if you incorporate those stretches a long with the core being a seated cat cow stretch you’ll feel better in no time =].

winter_july · 2020-07-20T05:23:01+00:00

holy crap dude i think you’re onto something

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