OMG! I am sitting around way to much right now and it's making me hurt all the time. My back hurts, my neck hurt, my butt hurts and my knees hurt. Add to that my wrist from typing and writing so much and my jaw from having TMJ and keeping it clenched. I can't seem to find a good place to study. My favorite place is on the couch with my feet on the coffee table and books or laptop on my lap so I can have the TV on, but that is making it worse. I've tried the kitchen table but I don't work as well there and I end up more hunched over the table. I have the same problem at my desk. When my roommate moves out next month I'm considering trying to get a treadmill in her room and make some kind of stand to put my books on to study while I use it. I've seen documentaries about people who work this way and it's good for you. My parent's don't really understand why I want to do that but I've tried to tell them that I will be studying so much in the next couple of years that it will be worth it. Until then though...I don't know what to do. I'm going to get a massage this week, which is just a temporary solution. My other problem is that I had to take off the down mattress topper from my bed because I found out I was allergic to down, so I'm not sleeping well at night. So I'm also on the hunt to find something good for my bed.
What do you guys do to keep moving and keep the pain away???? I know that I will be spending a lot of time on my feet in my career and I don't want to end up in pain before I even start! I also have fibromyalgia, so it's important that I get this problem taken care of.
Sheri257
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I notice that if I exercise first thing in the AM, I tend to get less muscle atrophy, back problems, etc. from studying the rest of the day.
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