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Nah but seriously. Don't injure yourself with this 100-push-ups-challenge thing. Specially if you're recently joining after a hiatus of physical activity.

Personally not yet at diamond pushup, ~2 years by now. 💪

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i am fighting early diabetes and general kidney/liver problems and one of the worst symptoms is muscle weakness... even when i have tried to build condition after 2 weeks i make almost no progress

getting the disease sorted out is making a big difference, and i've chosen cycling up steep hills as my exercise routine... the lack of cardio is really big, i mean, i dunno how to explain it when you have general muscle problems, partly electrolytes and partly neuromuscular (peripheral neuropathy etc) - yeah, those invisible muscles all need to recover from the disease too, and they probably need to do it before the ones that lever the frame about

i'm not aiming to be some kind of sprinter or marathon or anything but just to be able to get 500m and pause without feeling like i'm dying on these hills here would be great... i know i could have done it 20 years ago without even trying

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⛩️oiz Caminero 1y ago

I wish you strenght, heartily. Mom also has it; maybe I could understand some of it.

Situation apart, I find interesting the description you provide about how it is having it, that is, since the "interior" or personal point of view of having it; that meaning I could only see it by "the outside" or not having it, and certainly the lack of muscle where it is supposed to be muscle could be a dary phenomena to describe, at least not being studied medicine.

Treatment appart, I try to think for my mom to not be too rigid about it, in the sense of making a worse cure to lease it by using worryness. True is that to worry is a way to measure it; but then it passes onto more of a personal choice. Those of us that are outside couldn't help but tu be helpful whenever appropiate, as if making room for the very disease to also be a house dweller. I could understand that last as making habit of a treatment...

Also glad to hear biking helps! I would Imagine it'd be better muscle wise to go light and practice scalating

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, walking is a bit too easy

and yeah, it's horrible disease, and i am sure that there is a fog between kidney damage and liver damage and the actual systemic sugar metabolism problems

i'm quite certain that artificial sweeteners, at least a few of them, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, have kidney and liver damage effects, and some of the symptoms of those effects are quite similar, especially kidney, i mean, "i have pain in the kidney area under my ribs" probably means an issue with the kidneys, but what is it? kidney stone? inflammation? damage from chronic dehydration? chemical damage from fucking poison stuff put in food legally by government fiat?