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Ok I get the picture that everyone gets a lot of muscle spasms, from the toes through to the finger tips.
So, I have a question regarding my stomach muscle going into spasm. Please everyone, if you have to laugh about the location of this spasm, try not to do it too loudly.
This spasm happens quite a lot, and on one occasion it happened whilst I was in the doctor's surgery, but he could not tell me why it happened!!!!
How do I describe it? Well, sometimes when I bend down, or bend over, there is a point where my stomach muscle (I assume that is what it is) seems to literally protest. Sometimes it might happen because an object that I am wearing (such as my pedometer) hits the spot. When it happens, the muscle just below the breast bone (near the rib cage) goes into spasm.
Has anyone else experienced this? I am sorry if my explanation is not very clear. It is constantly in that one spot, so I was wondering if there is some kind of connection to AS, or UPsA
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ironchef
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hey platy check for a hernia... best aB 
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yap! not a bad idea...I'd sure be curious on that one.  Ames
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hey platy
check for a hernia...
best
aB$h
The hernia did not show up when I had my top and tail a few years ago.
My doctor saw it happening and he did not even suggest hernia. I think the position is wrong for hernia.
I have not done a very good job describing what happens. It only happens when I bend over in a certain way, and if I am wearing my pedometer and it becomes an obstruction. My stomach muscle definitely rises and goes into spasm.
Well, I am just wondering if anyone else has experienced the same or similar.
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ironchef
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old doctor joke...used ten thousand times if it only hurts when you bend over in a certain way or when wearing a pedometer (of what use perchance is a pedometer in this world?) then stop bending over ina certain way and get rid of the pedometer...cured !!!  no charge. aB
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old doctor joke...used ten thousand times
if it only hurts when you bend over in a certain way or when wearing a pedometer (of what use perchance is
a pedometer in this world?) then stop bending over ina certain way and get rid of the pedometer...cured !!!clp
no charge.
aB$h
er, um, I am under doctor's orders to wear the pedometer 
Also, have to bend over or down to fetch things from the floor
I am glad there was no charge 
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aaaaaaah? please...i'm just transfixed; WHY the pedometer ? peace out aB
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aaaaaaah?
please...i'm just transfixed; WHY the pedometer ?
peace out
aB$h
My doctor wants me to lose weight and this is proving to be almost but not quite impossible. He wanted me to walk more often etc. He had been keeping on at me over a long period of time over the issue.
Anyway, I have been wearing the pedometer to see how far I am walking during the day. I do not wear it all the time, and sometimes the count is definitely not accurate. However, it goes me an idea of activity. The aim is over 7500 steps per day. Every step over 7500 is in fact a bonus. If I am wearing the pedometer I am making the extra effort to get above the 7500. Of course getting over 10000 steps is a bigger aim, but with my feet hurting a lot I compromised for the lower number (I should say I bargained my doctor down to 7500). He does ask me how it is going and he keeps an eye on my progress.
Even if I do not attain this every day, I am seeing the benefits from making the effort. My leg muscles are starting to firm again. This has to be a good benefit. When I am working my job tends to be sendentary and to be frank I do not get enough exercise when I am working. I have measured the steps and when I am working with a martinet who expects me to be sitting at the desk and calling people to ask them to pay their accounts, and to have done more than 60-80 calls in a day, then I cannot get sufficient exercise. Even if I am eating less, if I am not getting the exercise then I cannot lose weight.
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I've gotten muscle spasms in my abs by getting stuck inside my sweatshirt trying to get it off over my head when it did not want to let go of the turtleneck sweater underneath, but it did not involve any pedometers.
I walk about 2 hours a day minimum outside and it's more like 3 to 5. But it involves farm activities.
Assuming a 2 foot stride it sounds like Dr Footy wants you to go about 3 miles per day. You could just go for a brisk 20 to 30 minute walk and knock off quite a bit of that and get it over with. I hope he doesn't have you on one of those truly dreadful low fat high carb weight "loss" diets (yeah right...) because those things are fattening. The expression "low fat" on any manufactured food item should be avoided like plague because the body metabolises the carbs they substituted for the fat differently and tries to store them for posterity. Trust me, I'm from the dark side, we are over there sucking down olive oil and mayo like crazy trying to hold weight.
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platy, aloha i think your doctor has a complex...'the worshipful reliance on extraneous, silly hardware' as windy noted/extrapolated 7,500 to 10,000 paces is about 2-3 miles in distance...it is a known without the assistance of the pedometer...and having been a fatty myself...kid, losing 60-80 lbs isn't walking 2-3 miles a day; it's eating substantially less food... and that much vaunted and flogged 'low fat/mucho carb diet' is the same formula used to fatten cattle for slaughter. btw, your body needs and craves fat...fat tells your body that 'yes, you did eat'...many folks on those low fat diets believe they can eat unlimited quantities of the 'good foods list'...eat small quatities of everything often. and to get back to your first post, i don't know that scopes in both ends will discover a muscle tear in the diaphram; and being 60-80 pounds overweight makes it nigh unto impossible for a doctor to feel a hernia. all the best aB
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