medical self-assessment continued

It takes often too much time to get to a real doctor so I need to always play my own doc. I removed my last post concerning the possibility of yeast syndrome/diet as the cause for my problems. Well after keeping a food diary for a couple days it just seems foolish to think my diet is rubbish! only maybe lacking too much in energy...

So the self assessment continues and here is where I think keeping this blog helps me...looking back I can see clearly some recurring patterns when my health "crashes". And there always seem to be quite a few similar things contributing.

The combination always seems to come after a period of sitting for a long time accompanied with too much cognitive stress/information overload and some kind of change in climate/time/sunlight. My new theory is that I have sciatica and when I sit for a prolonged time the nerve compression accompanied with the other stresses mentioned just burns all of my energy leading to fatigue and other issues. I will receive results from my last bloodtest on Tuesday and if nothing comes up on that I'll present this therory to the doctor. I'll also have a gait analysis on Wednesday and hopefully I'll get orthotics this time. My left leg is about 1cm longer than my right and both feet hyperpronate so those are likely contributing to the overall picture too, who knows. Human body is quite a complex system!

On another note the beginning of November marks the start of new training season. I will start probably writing more about my training here. I haven't been very good at keeping track of feelings and such in my training diary so maybe writing about training here will get me to evaluate the training better.

Happy (overdue) Halloween!