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Hi all,
I'm putting weight on (again!) due to being out of training through injury, and it's really starting to annoy me, and I can't seem to get any decent help or answers from anywhere else.
I'm 27 and probably around at 14st 5'7". I've never been a sporty person and have been overweight pretty much as long as I remember apart from a mid-teenage spell raving ever other night without sleeping or eating (ever....) and went down to about 10st before calming down and putting weight back on.
A few years back I decided to try running and after taking it easy for a couple of weeks with my more sports-disciplined girlfriend, I decided that I was finding it ok and easier to do than I'd ever felt before.
I was wearing basketball shoes at the time and found my feet were getting unbearably hot, so I bought some Adidas Climacool shoes. Within a fortnight, I could barely walk from Shinsplints. I went to my doctor who told me there was nothing I could do, I just had to stop running.
I didn't accept this so I asked to see another doctor, and they referred me to see a Podiatrist who said that I overpronate slightly and gave me some Orthotics and told me to ditch the trainers as there was next to no cushioning in them at all.
So I went to StartFitness in Newcastle and was sold a pair of Asics GT-2100.
I was told to leave off running for 6 weeks then start from the bottom again and work up slowly. So I did.
Within a week, I was starting to feel my shins again, so I stopped and waited some more.
I gave it about 2 months before starting again, and my shins were hurting in a matter of weeks. So I gave up.
2 years later, after being entered by a friend into a challenge run, I decided to try again. I started slowly and within a fortnight was running 3 miles in between 30-40mins.
Unfortunately for me, I'm an "out-of-the-bag" person. I could run a 10k tomorrow without a problem (well, shins excepted), so the whole walking and running thing doesn't work for me. I just find it incredibly frustrating having to change pace and it puts me off drastically.
I prefer to just do short runs, but I get carried away very quickly and when I first started again recently, with 3 weeks of pretty much just doing around 3 miles every other day except weekends, I pushed myself and did 10k without problem.
After a couple of rest days, I could feel my left shin, not hurting but I could feel it. Originally it was both shins equally painful, but for some reason this time it was just my left shin.
Nevertheless I eased off and went down to doing 2-3 miles every other day but gradually felt the pain in my left shin developing, so decided to stop before it got too painful.
I gave it a couple of weeks before trying a walk/run for 2 miles and when I was running along the beach, I hit a soft bit of sand and went over on my left ankle. I stopped and limped for a few feet while trying to hold the tears back like a big girl or exploding in a 30-second tirade of pure obscenities. So I limped back to the car and went home dejected.
I've been to a sports injury clinic who prescribed a frequent course of £35 massage sessions which just seemed a bit obvious to me, so I decided to try my doctor (different surgery to when I first started running) who promptly told me that there's no way in the world that I would be suffering from shin splints as only elite athletes suffer from Shin splints and that I was pretty much imagining it.
Having done as much research as I reckon I could online regarding the pain and coming to the conclusion that I have tendonitis rather than stress fractures, I understand that shin splints is really stress fractures, but is generally used as a collective term for lower leg pain which is kind of what the doctor was getting at but he still wouldn't accept that I have tendonitis.
Infuriated, I asked the surgery if I could speak with the other doctor in the practice, who immediately took interest in the fact that I was in pain and continually seem to be unable to run without developing injuries and not only wanted to sort out the pain, but wants to find out the cause of the pain, so referred me to a muscular-skeleto clinic. I missed the appointment due to work, but have another appointment coming up, so we'll see what happens.
I guess what I'm working towards is getting some sports massage on the affected shin area and maybe some physio on my left ankle as it still hurts after about 3 months.
What I want to know is if any of you lot can help. I'm guessing out of all of you a good few will have had shinsplints and hopefully the majority of you will have come through them somehow...
Bestow upon me your knowledge and help me to run for more than a month so I can get into it and lose my gut and manboobs please!
If you've got to this point then thank you very much for reading all that and I hope I haven't wasted your time.
Thank you
K
I'm putting weight on (again!) due to being out of training through injury, and it's really starting to annoy me, and I can't seem to get any decent help or answers from anywhere else.
I'm 27 and probably around at 14st 5'7". I've never been a sporty person and have been overweight pretty much as long as I remember apart from a mid-teenage spell raving ever other night without sleeping or eating (ever....) and went down to about 10st before calming down and putting weight back on.
A few years back I decided to try running and after taking it easy for a couple of weeks with my more sports-disciplined girlfriend, I decided that I was finding it ok and easier to do than I'd ever felt before.
I was wearing basketball shoes at the time and found my feet were getting unbearably hot, so I bought some Adidas Climacool shoes. Within a fortnight, I could barely walk from Shinsplints. I went to my doctor who told me there was nothing I could do, I just had to stop running.
I didn't accept this so I asked to see another doctor, and they referred me to see a Podiatrist who said that I overpronate slightly and gave me some Orthotics and told me to ditch the trainers as there was next to no cushioning in them at all.
So I went to StartFitness in Newcastle and was sold a pair of Asics GT-2100.
I was told to leave off running for 6 weeks then start from the bottom again and work up slowly. So I did.
Within a week, I was starting to feel my shins again, so I stopped and waited some more.
I gave it about 2 months before starting again, and my shins were hurting in a matter of weeks. So I gave up.
2 years later, after being entered by a friend into a challenge run, I decided to try again. I started slowly and within a fortnight was running 3 miles in between 30-40mins.
Unfortunately for me, I'm an "out-of-the-bag" person. I could run a 10k tomorrow without a problem (well, shins excepted), so the whole walking and running thing doesn't work for me. I just find it incredibly frustrating having to change pace and it puts me off drastically.
I prefer to just do short runs, but I get carried away very quickly and when I first started again recently, with 3 weeks of pretty much just doing around 3 miles every other day except weekends, I pushed myself and did 10k without problem.
After a couple of rest days, I could feel my left shin, not hurting but I could feel it. Originally it was both shins equally painful, but for some reason this time it was just my left shin.
Nevertheless I eased off and went down to doing 2-3 miles every other day but gradually felt the pain in my left shin developing, so decided to stop before it got too painful.
I gave it a couple of weeks before trying a walk/run for 2 miles and when I was running along the beach, I hit a soft bit of sand and went over on my left ankle. I stopped and limped for a few feet while trying to hold the tears back like a big girl or exploding in a 30-second tirade of pure obscenities. So I limped back to the car and went home dejected.
I've been to a sports injury clinic who prescribed a frequent course of £35 massage sessions which just seemed a bit obvious to me, so I decided to try my doctor (different surgery to when I first started running) who promptly told me that there's no way in the world that I would be suffering from shin splints as only elite athletes suffer from Shin splints and that I was pretty much imagining it.
Having done as much research as I reckon I could online regarding the pain and coming to the conclusion that I have tendonitis rather than stress fractures, I understand that shin splints is really stress fractures, but is generally used as a collective term for lower leg pain which is kind of what the doctor was getting at but he still wouldn't accept that I have tendonitis.
Infuriated, I asked the surgery if I could speak with the other doctor in the practice, who immediately took interest in the fact that I was in pain and continually seem to be unable to run without developing injuries and not only wanted to sort out the pain, but wants to find out the cause of the pain, so referred me to a muscular-skeleto clinic. I missed the appointment due to work, but have another appointment coming up, so we'll see what happens.
I guess what I'm working towards is getting some sports massage on the affected shin area and maybe some physio on my left ankle as it still hurts after about 3 months.
What I want to know is if any of you lot can help. I'm guessing out of all of you a good few will have had shinsplints and hopefully the majority of you will have come through them somehow...
Bestow upon me your knowledge and help me to run for more than a month so I can get into it and lose my gut and manboobs please!
If you've got to this point then thank you very much for reading all that and I hope I haven't wasted your time.
Thank you
K