Did anyone else’s health suddenly get worse after an injury/trauma?
A very long story short, with as much detail as I can without writing an essay. I’m 31 female, and I went on a 4 mont sailing trip in the summer. It was my husband who was supposed to sail with friends, but so much went wrong I ended up going to complete the mission. My health was quite ok, I had been working on weight loss (I have pcos so it’s difficult for me to get to a healthy weight), and was active most days. The activity increased to an astronomical amount, I was walking 20k steps a day plus sailing from 5 am to 10 pm most days. I had to rely on my friends strong pain meds to be able to do this. This was not a holiday might I add, we own a boat in England but live in Finland, and we were in a tight budget and a schedule to get her there.
Things got worse and worse, my grandma died, and I broke my ankle in Germany. Our health insurance run out like two days before, due to the massive stress we forgot to extend it. So I was then hit with huge bills, and had to remain trapped on the boat until we made it to Denmark so I could fly to Finland. During this two week stretch from the German hospital to Denmark, I had to DRAG myself around the boat and move like a fricken monkey because there was no room to use crutches efficiently. Once again, I was on strong pain meds. I had to catch two flights, both flights I had to crawl or hop up and down the stairs to the plane because they for some reason didn’t operate the left for me, I was in so much pain I thought my hips were gonna bust straight out their sockets. I had a panic attack in the plane because I couldn’t move to ease my pain.
So I eventually got home, and it’s been a few months since I’ve been out of my cast. But my body is in shreds. Every single part of me is on fire. I’ve gone from being able to walk 20k steps to under 1k. It’s not just my ankle it’s every limb. I’ve off half of my hair also. It just drops out constantly. I’m taking every supplement under the sun, and my diet is healthy. I honestly feel like this is the end for me, that I will be like this forever. I would say it’s 5x as bad as it was before all of this happened.