Lifestyle Changes After Diagnosis: What Worked for You?

@SMX I feel the exact same way! I’ve worked a super stressful finance job for 5 years and since my diagnosis/I ended up being hospitalized before getting diagnosed, I’m constantly paranoid about worsening the disease with work stress. But I pretty much do the same, go hard and then exhausted all weekend or get sick during the week and have to take a day off.

@Feebs oh gosh it’s so tricky and every week/day is different. I definitely can’t run. I do spin classes sometimes and just have to be like kind to myself that my body can’t do usually what it used to- but also if I feel good one day I might want to do it again the next and sometimes that can push me over the edge and make it hard for me to work for like 3 days. I really like anti gravity yoga cause it’s not a lot of pressure and it decompresses a lot of joints and gets into areas and massages some places where I hold a lot of pain, and I get endorphins from being upside down or flipping around. It’s gentle on the body. The last few weeks have been rough for me so that’s all I’ve done the last couple weeks. I was someone who used to run or spin and sometimes combine with yoga almost everyday. It was my coping mechanism and I just love the rush