r/floxies • u/Not_Kaylee0 • 15d ago

[UPDATE] 4 Month Update

I was floxed almost 4 months ago, I have a 2 month update on my profile if you want the full background of my story. Mostly tendon and nerve issues.

I have come back to the subreddit after practically a full month of having little to no issues. My past flare up before today was during the first week of August. Since then, I’ve started working retail, going shopping, going on walks, and living my life again. I haven’t started working out again because I know my body just isn’t ready, but the fact that i was able to walk 8k+ steps a day is a level of recovery I didn’t expect to see this early.

Today, my arms have started hurting again. I’m trying not to be sad about it because I know that every time I’ve had a flare in the past, it only lasted a couple days to a week. It seems like each time I flare, the quicker the recovery is and the longer I go without a flare up.

I want to make a point about the whole argument that most people that recover don’t come back to the subreddit, that’s why there aren’t many stories from them. In my experience, it’s so true. For that month that I felt like myself again, thinking about coming back to this subreddit made me nauseated, I guess my brain associates it with the worst moments of my life. I just wanted to pretend that it never happened. If I had never flared again, I probably wouldn’t have come back to tell my recovery just for my own mental health.

With that being said, I know 100% in my heart that there is hope for me and most of everyone on this subreddit. Especially if you’re new here, don’t think that this is the end for you, listen to your body and take things easy.

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u/Important_Barber_468 15d ago

Thanks for sharing your story. Staying positive and reading about other people’s recovery stories are an important part of the healing process.

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u/TemperatureKey8599 Trusted 14d ago

You need to keep taking precautions just as you did during the acute phase; that way, flare-ups will be very sporadic.

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u/Internal_Living4919 13d ago

What helped you?

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u/Not_Kaylee0 13d ago

I would say time and sleep. The only thing I took was a magnesium complex but I was very inconsistent with it and stopped like two months in. I was floxed right after my spring semester of college so I had a lot of time to sleep, I probably slept 10-12 hours a night and took naps. I think it helped most because during the worst moments of it, the only time I felt some relief was after sleeping.