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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jun 17 5:14am | Replies (16)

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@katcollins

Gardening is one of the best things you can do for your body. There are many grounding techniques that I’ve used. Also, gentle yoga helps for pain.

Kat

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I absolutely agree with gardening for health - and for natural grounding, as it turns out - and was getting outside several times a day till a couple of months ago when metatarsalgia (ball of the foot) pain, along with a PMR flare, made walking hard. So a couple of months was spent inside limping.

The penny has now dropped that the sudden DVT thromboembolism I developed after that (which has put me on blood thinner Apixaban/Eliquis) may even have been partly caused by being indoors wearing thick-soled synthetic orthotic shoes for the metatarsalgia, with no grounding at all. And of course prednisone itself raises blood clotting risk.

So for now, it's back to small frequent gentle gardening sessions. I can't ground much with those insulated-sole orthotic shoes except for taking them off briefly outdoors, so I'll do it through hands in the dirt gardening.