Rogatien are you still riding indoors only? Riding outdoors makes time go by faster and it raises your heart more for a given effort. Food for thought.
Yes only the home bike, I just can't risk it right now riding outside.. investigating further my malaise wasn't an infarct (heart attack, stroke, aneurysm) and it looks like it's not neurological (parkinson, alzhaimer etc), what's pointing to is it being spinal
along the spinal canal runs the longitudinal ligament almost the entire length, in the cervical area (the neck) at C4 C5 and C6 area my ligament has ossified meaning calcified into bone, this calcified bone keeps growing until it starts encroaching the spinal cord, once it starts pressing so much it starts compressing the spinal cord and we start seeing some symptoms like I'm feeling, it's the nerves going haywire
I confirmed up to this point that it's ossified, now I just got to investigate further and see how much this ossified portion of the ligament has grown, for me to start seeing symptoms it has to have started growing years ago, neurosurgeons measure this with what they call the occupancy ratio (of the spinal canal), if it's under 30% it's only for observation, if it's 30-50% it's therapy, if it's 50% or more than it's neck spinal cord decompression surgery time, ignoring this would allow the bone to keep growing until your nerves shut down and you become quadriplegic (paralyses from the neck down)
it's unknown what's the cause, for some people it's hereditary or job related, but it's ethnicity linked also, it affects East Asians much more, 3% of Taiwanese, 3% of South Koreans, 4% of Japanese people will get it, the recommendation is to avoid high physicality because the spinal cord has less wiggle room like a normal person on high impacts, so a fall from a bike could leave me quadriplegic immediately, for now I have to keep the spine and neck align in a good posture to alleviate some of the neck pain, almost surely Rogie will need neck surgery, for now Camp Roguey is closed
