When I first started seeing the doctors at UW-Madison Hospital, they assured me they would figure out why, and what is causing the myopathy in my legs, and they would fix it.
Well, the results are in from last weeks MRI's on my legs. It seems some of my leg muscles have, and others are turning into connective tissue. The bad news is, the process is not reversible.
Yesterday's muscle biopsy will hopefully supply the answers as to what is causing this, and the doctors can get things under control, and prevent it from spreading any further.
The surgery went well, I barely felt a thing.
There are many muscle diseases it could be, and my doctors would not venture to guess as to what it is at this point.
In the next 4 to 6 weeks, that little bit of muscle Dr. Waclawik removed from my thigh, will be tested, tested, and tested again.
Hopefully, the cause will be something that can be controlled. This is going to be a long six weeks.
As I sit here now, my leg feels like I was hit with a baseball bat. (From the muscle biopsy surgery)
So strange that this is the first pain I've felt in my legs, and I sit here wishing the myopathy process would have been painful, so I would have noticed it earlier.
Oh well, some people have it a lot worse than I do.
Time to suck it up and start building up the muscles in my legs that still work. And, if I can work on improving my cardiovascular fitness, to levels I've never achieved, I just might be able to do that 100 miles of singletrack. It may be next year though.
www.chequamegon100.com/
Keep riding my friends!
Stay healthy.
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  Doggonit......all my singletrack miles go to you this year Craig. You share such a passion for your music and cycling, We will be pulling for you on this. I hope staying active is a big part of your therapy...that Chequawutchamacallit Ride looks awesome.
posted by Sagebum on
2/16/2011
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 Hey, Thanks for thinking of me. I'll be Ok. Life is like a Poker game, I got dealt a bad hand. But in Poker, you can still win with bad cards.
This will give me the incentive to start working on my leg strength in the weight room, and start running again, to improve legs strength and my cardiovascular fitness.
I may not be fast, (Heck, I've never been fast) but I'll never quit riding.
posted by KrateKraig on
2/17/2011
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 http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/22/woman.mystery.bulking/index.html?iref=obinsite#
Something similar. Auto immune disease attack her muscles, and the muscle heal up by growing bigger.
posted by maschwab on
3/10/2011
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