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I would not mind further information at all. My insomnia for the last ten years has been directly traceable to the chronic pain left over from a severe sinus infection (after a year and a half of tests and scans and attempts at medicating for pain that did not work as intended, I was told that it was nerve damage and it would either heal or it wouldn't; I'm not sure it ever healed in the strict sense, but my body definitely got better at dealing with it, as I still have the constant sensation of a sinus headache but it no longer keeps me awake crying out at nights, and I take the painkillers available to me in a mindful and preemptive fashion), but as of this latest PT session the therapist has started referring to me straightforwardly as a person with hypermobility and in fact wants to do some specific kinds of bodywork with me about it. I asked if it was my entire body or just my upper body and she did something with my hip socket and said it was the works.
Having been identified, it is almost certainly inherited, as my father lastingly injured his back in young adulthood by trying to move something quite heavy in a hyperextended position; I suspect it was camouflaged in me for years by the fact that I am not conventionally double-jointed. (My brother could do the thumb-to-wrist trick in childhood and grew out of it; I never could. He can't do the thing with his arms behind his back, however, and I can't remember not being able to. I assumed it was normal for years that a lengthy period of writing with pen or pencil could leave my forefinger locked. I now have a sneaking suspicion that isn't true.) A cursory glance at the internet suggests that it matches some other things I have observed about myself over the years, including the hellacious TMJ that the last two and a half years' braces left me with (you don't want to hear the noises my jaw now makes when it opens; I wish I couldn't) and the fact that very few forms of pain medication or anesthetic work on me. On the other hand, I've never dislocated anything that I can remember and am not prone to sprains. Either way, it is an entirely new thing about my body that I have apparently had my entire life and had no idea about—it was only flagged after I started physical therapy for a neck/shoulder injury in August that had no obvious aetiology and eventually turned into excruciating pain I couldn't fall asleep through—and I would appreciate any resources on it I can get. Thank you!
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I would not mind further information at all. My insomnia for the last ten years has been directly traceable to the chronic pain left over from a severe sinus infection (after a year and a half of tests and scans and attempts at medicating for pain that did not work as intended, I was told that it was nerve damage and it would either heal or it wouldn't; I'm not sure it ever healed in the strict sense, but my body definitely got better at dealing with it, as I still have the constant sensation of a sinus headache but it no longer keeps me awake crying out at nights, and I take the painkillers available to me in a mindful and preemptive fashion), but as of this latest PT session the therapist has started referring to me straightforwardly as a person with hypermobility and in fact wants to do some specific kinds of bodywork with me about it. I asked if it was my entire body or just my upper body and she did something with my hip socket and said it was the works.
Having been identified, it is almost certainly inherited, as my father lastingly injured his back in young adulthood by trying to move something quite heavy in a hyperextended position; I suspect it was camouflaged in me for years by the fact that I am not conventionally double-jointed. (My brother could do the thumb-to-wrist trick in childhood and grew out of it; I never could. He can't do the thing with his arms behind his back, however, and I can't remember not being able to. I assumed it was normal for years that a lengthy period of writing with pen or pencil could leave my forefinger locked. I now have a sneaking suspicion that isn't true.) A cursory glance at the internet suggests that it matches some other things I have observed about myself over the years, including the hellacious TMJ that the last two and a half years' braces left me with (you don't want to hear the noises my jaw now makes when it opens; I wish I couldn't) and the fact that very few forms of pain medication or anesthetic work on me. On the other hand, I've never dislocated anything that I can remember and am not prone to sprains. Either way, it is an entirely new thing about my body that I have apparently had my entire life and had no idea about—it was only flagged after I started physical therapy for a neck/shoulder injury in August that had no obvious aetiology and eventually turned into excruciating pain I couldn't fall asleep through—and I would appreciate any resources on it I can get. Thank you!