Anyone ever felt they were going backwards in their recovery process?? I'm in both therapies OT and PT and my ability to stand, walk and move my arms, legs is nearly none existence anymore! For some odd reasons I feel pretty much like I did 10 years ago when I came home in a WC unable to walk.

I never would have imagined this would be the case with me this many years later. It all started when it got very difficult for me to stand up from a seat especially if it was very low. Now there is no way I can stand up from any seat lower that 22 inches high. That means chairs in the doctor's office or any other place chairs are offered for people to sit down.

That includes the church pews, I have to be helped up to stand on my feet. I feel part of the problem is in my knees where I been getting the injections for my arthritis. Have the injections finally stopped working or do I have another problem unknown at this time?? I will hear from my arthritis doctor soon as he returns my calls to his office.

There must be a reason for this situation. I can't see my weak side getting even weaker 10 years later where I can't stand up from a chair or any seat 22 inches high and lower. I can really feel it in my knees when I struggle to get up from a low seat. Right now it just doesn't make any sense to me for this to be happening.

I had to give up my computer chair for a taller stool with a back on it. When my butt is below my knees when I'm sitting down there is no way I could struggle to get on my feet to stand up. It's the same way with a commode in any bathroom at the hotel or relatives homes. I must have the raised toilet seat to sit on top of the commode or I can not get up! All of this just started happening the last two or three weeks or so!

Can you imagine being in any bathroom or public restroom and can't get up from the commode?? That's a scary feeling for sure. I had just thrown out an older raised seat I used when I first came home from the hospital 10 years ago.

It really does make me feel I'm going backwards instead of forward in my recovery. It's the left leg and side that's paralyzed. When I struggle to stand up I can feel it in both legs however! I have no trouble getting in or out my car but I struggle to ride in my wife's car seat. It's just way too low for me but I used to ride in it with no problem.

I suppose age has a lot to do with the problem I just don't feel the age thing as being part of my problem. My therapy is coming alone in the right manner of me doing all they want me to do. I just went through all the measurements they take when it's time to record how much or less you have improved since you started the program. Being approved for more therapy and paid by Medicare depends on that report.

The abilities to do things after a stroke probably depends on the effects the stroke had on the body. Some will be slower than others so I suppose I was slow in coming home five months after others had gone home before me and they were able to walk where I couldn't.

I just have to wait and see what my doctor will say about my arthritis situation and the injections I been getting for years and now having big troubles trying to stand up from sitting. It's frustrating to say the least especially when I'm alone in the house with no one to help me stand up from sitting. I remember being home alone when the stroke happened to me.

I'll keep praying and looking for the best solution to solve my problem!! Maybe it will feel I'm going up hill pretty soon instead of down hill. I keep my cell phone on me at all times for that reason!