Emotional Support Sisters

I have been dealing with some chronic pain in my scapula/spine/rib area. There was an initial injury (of the most benign sort, which is really irritating that it has caused so much pain since then) and there is a spot that has just kept hurting for the year and a half since that inciting incident. (Is “inciting incident” redundant?) I’ve gone to the doctor, had x-rays, MRI, PT, etc. and the only thing that temporarily helped was a cortisone shot.

But that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is the irritating nature of this phenomenon of “overdoing it”. I overdid it this past week/weekend. I had an inkling I might be overdoing it, but I made a conscious choice to not allow my pain to dictate my life. I knew there was a chance I would pay the price of being stupid, but I didn’t know for sure until yesterday.

In general, I don’t know I overdid it until the next day. I have no warning signs saying, “Amelia, you need to stop doing this thing”. I just have the screaming consequence telling me, “Amelia, you done did messed up”.

What is your experience with overdoing it? Can you reliably predict what will cause issues for you? Do you experience signs along the way? Or are you like me and don’t know until it’s entirely too late?