Hi everyone,
I'm 9 months now and starting to think a lot about whether I'm fused/fusing. I was thinking it might be helpful to a lot of us to talk about ways we can help fusion and, conversely, hurt it.
Here are my thoughts, please add yours.
Help:
Eat healthy food and take your vitamins/calcium. We don't know exactly what goes into forming bone, right? But this certainly can't hurt.
Follow your BLTS restrictions.
Keep blood flowing, either through walking or other permitted forms of exercise.
Hurt:
Smoking. Don't know why, though. Anyone?
Taking anti-inflammatories. (Apparently inflammation is important in the fusion process.)
Bending, lifting, twisting and/or squatting in the first few months.
Here's one I've been wondering about. Drinking too much soda (or in my case, diet soda)? I have never heard of this, but I've just been wondering about it because soda is implicated as a contributor to bone loss in osteoporosis. Sure hope not, because I love my diet Coke!
Thoughts?
Best,
Evelyn
I'm 9 months now and starting to think a lot about whether I'm fused/fusing. I was thinking it might be helpful to a lot of us to talk about ways we can help fusion and, conversely, hurt it.
Here are my thoughts, please add yours.
Help:
Eat healthy food and take your vitamins/calcium. We don't know exactly what goes into forming bone, right? But this certainly can't hurt.
Follow your BLTS restrictions.
Keep blood flowing, either through walking or other permitted forms of exercise.
Hurt:
Smoking. Don't know why, though. Anyone?
Taking anti-inflammatories. (Apparently inflammation is important in the fusion process.)
Bending, lifting, twisting and/or squatting in the first few months.
Here's one I've been wondering about. Drinking too much soda (or in my case, diet soda)? I have never heard of this, but I've just been wondering about it because soda is implicated as a contributor to bone loss in osteoporosis. Sure hope not, because I love my diet Coke!
Thoughts?
Best,
Evelyn
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