11-06-2004, 00:27
|
#1
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2004
Location: in the blast radius
Posts: 29
|
lasEK
This could probably be in the medical forums but i try to stay away from there. Has bearing here also.
I had lasEK done on tues, and while i am happy i am not in arabic, the last three days has been lots of sleep and drug use. Now to some that would be a good couple of days.
During my hours awake I have been doing various bodyweight exercises (ala Pavel and Furey). I have been thinking about doing some cardio though. I have asked around and have found some people started up the day after surgery and others weeks later. Of course my profile says I have to keep my heart rate below 60 bpm for 30 days. So I am just throwing a line out to see if there are any ideas out there.
__________________
"You've had your whole life to prepare for this moment, are you ready?"
|
|
resonant evil is offline
|
|
|
11-06-2004, 01:13
|
#2
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
|
Yeah, I have an idea or two - FOLLOWS THE DOCTOR'S ORDERS TO THE LETTER.
They don't want your heart rate up because they are concerned about pressure on the vessels in your eyes. The vomiting is probably from anesthesia.
Doctor's don't make up orders to mess with people. They do it because they learned, usually through something unpleasant happening to a patient, what works and what doesn't. Now, you just payed for this surgery, went to all the pain and trouble to get it done - don't mess it up by doing jumping jacks or whatever. DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY TOLD YOU TO DO. No more - no less.
How's that for an idea?
__________________
Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
|
|
NousDefionsDoc is offline
|
|
|
11-06-2004, 08:38
|
#3
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Raeford/Colorado
Posts: 134
|
My significant other had the procedure done in 02 and followed the doctors orders exactly. She has had NO problems. I've known two others that screwed around and had blurred vision problems and the like. It's your vision guy.....
__________________
Smoke and mirrors.....
|
|
37F5V is offline
|
|
|
11-06-2004, 08:50
|
#4
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,780
|
Concur. Do as you are instructed, contact the Doc if you have any problems.
I had the same procedure, it took six months for my vision to stabilize, and I still have dry eyes.
Still beats the hell out of wearing contacts or glasses in the field or on deployment.
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|
|
The Reaper is offline
|
|
|
11-06-2004, 21:04
|
#5
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2004
Location: in the blast radius
Posts: 29
|
thanks
Thanks for the response. I only ask here because I asked the Doc and Nurses and their answers left some room to work. I am sticking to the profile to the "T". My profile says I can run, bike, walk at my own pace and distance. I was told healing time varies by individual, makes sense, but i don't want to step on my crank.
This is great, I want to get the best results possible, and I know recovery is my responsibility.
Thanks again
__________________
"You've had your whole life to prepare for this moment, are you ready?"
|
|
resonant evil is offline
|
|
|
11-08-2004, 08:20
|
#6
|
|
Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets
Posts: 3,879
|
The guys here already said it, but after several broken bones, a few severed tendons and a big ass knee surgery I've learned a radical new medical concept.
Heal the first time.
|
|
Bill Harsey is offline
|
|
|
11-08-2004, 17:35
|
#7
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: near Richmond, VA
Posts: 219
|
Smart Patients
I have a son who had lasEK or some procedure just prior Air Assault school. Not the best decision, but he never listened to me anyway. He is just like most 2LTs I have known.
|
|
SP5IC is offline
|
|
|
11-09-2004, 08:50
|
#8
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Event Horizon...
Posts: 381
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by resonant evil
My profile says I can run, bike, walk at my own pace and distance.
|
It makes no sense to me that they tell you to keep your heart rate below 60 BPM yet you can run and bike. That sounds fishy.
Most peoples heart rate will be 60 BPM at rest let alone while biking or running.
Reversibility of fitness takes about three weeks for an extremely fit endurance athlete. After which is might take twice as long to regain fitness. This mostly applies to elite endurance athletes and by that I mean world class ie olympic.
That applies to a complete cessation of exercise.
If you focus on strength training, stretching, and easy walking you might actually make this period of rest work for you. Then when you are given the green light to do aerobic work you can retrain your self to previous levels of fitness and even more in a relatively short period of time-
my 0.2
Last edited by ccrn; 11-09-2004 at 08:53.
|
|
ccrn is offline
|
|
|
11-12-2004, 18:31
|
#9
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2004
Location: in the blast radius
Posts: 29
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by resonant evil
Of course my profile says I have to keep my heart rate below 60 bpm for 30 days. So I am just throwing a line out to see if there are any ideas out there.
|
Sorry for the confusion. I was being sarcastic about the heart beat.
__________________
"You've had your whole life to prepare for this moment, are you ready?"
|
|
resonant evil is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 08:54.
|
|
|
Linear Mode
