Apparently I have Buns Of Steel!

I had an appointment today with my Doc for some assorted checkups, immunizations, etc. in preparation for heading off to college. I got some good news and some bad news.

The bad news: I have fibromyalgia, which is the likely cause of most of the body pain I'd been experiencing in the past few months. There doesn't seem to be much that can be done, other than exercising and stretching to try and keep my muscles from getting stiff.

The good news: I have an ass of solid steel! I had to have a hip x-ray done to make sure the joint pain in my hip wasn't being caused by something more serious. The technician who was checking my x-ray came out looking puzzled and asked me if I had any metal in my pants--apparently there were some odd striations in the x-ray that she couldn't immediately identify, and she thought there might have been some metal stitching somewhere. I showed her that I was wearing only a pair of soft cloth pajama pants, no stitching of any kind.

She went to get the lead radiologist, who took one look at my x-ray and started to laugh and congratulate me. Apparently my gluteus maximus muscles are so dense, firm, and well-toned that they were actually showing up on the x-ray! The striations the technician saw were actually *muscle* striations. She said it was actually pretty rare to have that happen, and I should be proud of myself for keeping my rear end so fit.

Therefore--PSA: sitting on your butt browsing around DU for hours on end apparently tones and firms your rear end. Who knew?! :shrug:
:rofl:

This thread is usless without xrays
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please!!

doing your special exercises?

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so what do you prefer we call you? Tight ass or hard ass? :rofl:

I've done a little of it. It is supposed to be helpful for fibromyalgia in some cases, but of course, the doctors don't care for it much since it's not a medicative therapy.

I'll definitely look into that :hug:

Believe me, I understand muscle pain!