So, just as a follow-up to my last post... I had my 10-week fitness testing this past Saturday and was pleasantly surprised at the results. I only was able to participate for seven of the ten weeks (mainly because of the car accident, business trip to North Carolina, and my nosebleed incident), but compared to my initial stats: I cut my mile run time down by 1.5 minutes, lost 7.5 pounds, lost 4" around my waist and 2" around my thigh (among other awesome improvements).
The one thing that I was curious to find out was if there would be any impact on my misophonia trigger sensitivities. The reason why I say that is the doctor who originally diagnosed me last year (one of the leading
The one thing that I was curious to find out was if there would be any impact on my misophonia trigger sensitivities. The reason why I say that is the doctor who originally diagnosed me last year (one of the leading
experts on misophonia), said that one of the studies she was working on at the time, was producing positive indications that exercise could help alleviate some of the symptoms of misophonia. (I haven't looked into the results of her study but now that I think of it... I should probably see if her study was published yet.) At the time when she said that, I thought it sounded like a plausible theory. I hadn't been very good about exercising for quite some time when I met with her, and it seems that many health studies talk about the benefits of exercise on a person's mental and physical well-being. That being said... Even with all my physical improvements (and even mentally - especially having a fun outlet to release stress through kick-boxing) from doing the intense workout over the past ten weeks, my misophonia symptoms haven't improved. Be that as it may, I did renew my membership for the next year, so perhaps a longer duration of this intense exercise program may eventually have some positive effect on lessening my trigger sensitivities. If that does happen, I'll be sure to post any new developments here.
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