How do you get your muscles to reactivate?

I've had Rt. leg weakness for about a year and a half, and I feel like the muscles are trying to wake back up, but they're so much slower than my other leg. I feel like my top...ahhh what's that word...can't think of it, so buttock and my upper back thigh muscle is just shut down. Anyone know how to wake these muscles up, and get them going again?

Sooverthis, for me, I lost most of my body muscle and 40 lbs of weight because of Lyme. To make matters worse, I spend my day at work sitting all day and go to bed when I get home. I do this because one of my major symptoms is chronic fatigue.

Now that I feel a little better, I have started to walk and do stretch exercises. It is very, very easy to overdo it. When I overdo it, I pay the price the next day by not being able to get out of bed and my bones and muscles hurt badly. Also, If i walk for more than say 15 minutes at a time, the next day my leg muscles that support my knees feel like they can't carry my weight and it feels like my knees are going to give out. As if they were made of gum or something.

Same thing with my hands. If I carry more than one or two grocery bags at a time, my arms feel so heavy and tired that I can't even type or keep them straight.

I hope you can find something to help your hand so you can get back to playing the harp. It's my favorite instrument. Both of my daughters took lessens (their choice), but never went very far with it, unfortunately. It's sitting in our living room unused now. I wish I had some musical talent to learn it.

I lost muscle this past year, after the stress of going through my mom's death and the 3 years she was in a care home. I'm trying to build some back up, but it's slow going.

Thanks Lymebabe. It was a tough time and I literally gave her my all those last 2 weeks and was glad to do it.

You must be a serious harpist to have 3. You must have the large ones that sound so nice. We just have a lap harp, which was what our daughter learned on. She used the large harp when we went to lessons at a harp store. She wanted a large one, but we told her we'd have to see how serious she was before spending so much on one. I've played around on the small one and it is relaxing, even thought I don't know how to play it. It just sounds good whatever you do with it, unlike a violin.

My teacher says there are no wrong notes on harp. She is so right!