Muscles

From one extreme to another! After hitting the gym regularly before Christmas I was feeling good (and losing weight btw). Then there was Christmas itself. Just two days of sitting around doing nothing but eating, drinking and watching DVDs on my laptop (thanks Mauro, Space 1999 is good fun) but, oh what I price I have paid.

Ok, I expected to put a little weight (two kilos which will go as quickly as they arrived) but did I really deserve a bout of sciatica? I managed to go the gym on Wednesday and do my class but in the afternoon I was confined to bed, in so much pain I was unable to sit, stand or lie comfortably.

It has eased overnight, but you should have seen me rolling on and off the bed to go to the loo and walking up and down my living room at 2am trying to find some pain relief. I went to the gym today and walked on the treadmill - I find exercise does help - and I feel much better. I still have to get up and walk around every fifteen minutes but the actual pain has (more or less) disappeared.

Oh, and my wrist is much better.