im in so much pain!!!!!

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hyperion

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ok so i knew i was going to be sore for a few days after spending two hours in the saddle for the first time in my life last tuesday but............

it saturday now and i still cant bend down with out feeling like some ones stabbing me in the back of my thighs with a red hot knife and if i try to kneel then my hips and sides are agony too and my left hip just hurts all the time no matter what i do!

i can still walk ok (just) and it does all feel a bit better when im stood up and walking around but i really am starting to think im permanently broken and if i have any more hot baths im going to start evolving flippers!

bloody horses!!!!

cheers
hyperion
 
welcome to the wonderful world of horses
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It does get better. They key is to keep moving and stretching.
 
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Do somegentle stretches both before and after riding, and every morning and evening if you can. Daughter's sports Physio insists on them (daughter was wonky). I do them and it's made a huge difference, if I don't I often can't straighten up after being sat down
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Ibuprophen or Ibuleve
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Oh dear! Yes, lots of stretches and a bit of warming-up beforehand too. Of course, the best thing to do is get back on that horse and get those muscles used to it
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Do you do any other sport?
 
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Oh dear! Yes, lots of stretches and a bit of warming-up beforehand too. Of course, the best thing to do is get back on that horse and get those muscles used to it
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Do you do any other sport?

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other than walking with the lurcher and shooting not really!
 
I went on holiday for two weeks and then rode for two hours (I regularly hack for two hours), and OMG did I ache afterwards. Horse riding reminds you of muscles you didn’t even knew you had, he, he! My advise, do it more often, your body gets use to it.
 
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Oh dear! Yes, lots of stretches and a bit of warming-up beforehand too. Of course, the best thing to do is get back on that horse and get those muscles used to it
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Do you do any other sport?

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other than walking with the lurcher and shooting not really!

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It could also be your hip joints protesting at being asked to rotate out sufficiently to get astride - it is a really tough thing to do if you are not used to it
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Have you taken any ibuprofen- it might help? I ride a lot but sometimes my left hip gives me gyp so I take an ibuprofen just to take the edge off it.
 
Oh poor you, i can totaly relate to this, i had a lesson a while back after 15 yrs out of the saddle, i couln't walk properly for 4 days, I found tiger balm really really helped! Wish you better
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To hell with Ibuprofen, you need 2 saches of bute (phenylbutozone) morning and evening for 2 days then cut it down to 1 sachet for 5 days with gentle walking out Am and Pm. No fastwork or hill work till your off the bute =)

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felicity i might be a man but i am not a complete animal!
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I'm not laughing, I'm not, I'm not....
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I can relate too, I rode on holiday for the first time in a year or so, did one two-hour hack, and spent the next day and a half going up and down the stairs sideways!

Nice hot baths and ibuprofen is the way forward for you
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Hyperion - no offense meant it is my standard recomendation to any one in pain...that or 6mnths at grass or a bullet =)-

In the past I have used horse products (cooling gels, anti-inflamatory creams) on my own injuries and they work so much better than anything the chemist will give you! =)

I hope your muscles recover soon!

PS Have you played the sympathy card for all its worth? ;-)
 
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Hyperion - no offense meant it is my standard recomendation to any one in pain...that or 6mnths at grass or a bullet =)-

In the past I have used horse products (cooling gels, anti-inflamatory creams) on my own injuries and they work so much better than anything the chemist will give you! =)

I hope your muscles recover soon!

PS Have you played the sympathy card for all its worth? ;-)

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none taken!

yeah i reckon ive wrung about as much out of it as i can now! lol!
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