Oh my aching back!

[turfguy1969]

ICE ICE ICE shrink the disk and it wont push on the nerve. I did lots of research. the disk fluid is just that-liquid. ice shrinks heat contracts.
rock- try reverse sit ups. The physical therapy people told me lay on your belly put you head to the sky just the elbows first then hold it, just imagine aekdbbop's lady under you.

 

[the_Roqk]

....The physical therapy people told me lay on your belly put you head to the sky just the elbows first then hold it, just imagine aekdbbop's lady under you....

OOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!! Now that's a thought!








Just kidding aekdbbop.

 

[tbulger]

HOw about a couple march pumps?

 

[the_Roqk]

Well it's been awhile and my back seems to be getting much better but I still have some residual pain going down my right leg. This is usually when I put weight on my right side either sitting or walking. BTW my MRI showed moderate size disc herniation at L4-L5, and with a midline disc protrusion at L5-S1 . All with some degenerative disc disease in the same area. The last part due from age and normal wear and tear. Right now the doc has me on some corticosteroids (prednisone) to take for 12 days. My work has me on light duty and with daily evaluations from our Occ/Health Nurse. Hopefully I can get back to full duty soon. But right now it's actually good to get some rest. I needed some, but not like this. That's about it for now!
Cheers!

 

[BigNick73]

Ive had a few problems from scoliosis (sp?), corrected via lots of trips to the chiropractor, wasn't fond of the idea of having rods shoved up my back. What helps me alot is an inversion table, you can get em for $100-$150 shipped off amazon. It'll make it feel worse for a little while but then it gets better fast, takes just a few minutes a day.

 

[Dude]

but I still have some residual pain going down my right leg.

Sciatic. Worst pain I've ever had in my life. I went through a bout of that after I hurt my back lifting something I shouldn't have. I thought I was out of the water (pain-wise) after the disc area healed up a little--but then the sciatic nerve acted up. Shooting and steady pain down my right back-side into my leg. I wanted to die. I couldn't even walk. Wouldn't wish that pain on anyone.

I've since started exercises to strengthen my lower back--but I'm scared crapless to do a sit-up or something to irritate it again.

Glad you are feeling better--hope that you are out of the woods.

 

[the_Roqk]

Thanks Dude! I really wouldn't say I was out of the woods just yet. Your right about the sciatic pain. It can be a motherfooger. I've tried situps in the past and they have helped but I noticed a little pain afterwards and didn't give it much thought. Like you, I'm not sure if I'll do any situps again. I might even say the hell with working out and become fat and happy. Course if I do that, I will hafta change my whole persona. In the mean time I think I'll milk this injury and see where it will take me. You never know it may lead to a different job with my department and maybe a raise. Atleast it will get me off of that damn rescue truck.

 

[turfguy1969]

they told me to do stomach workouts. Theory is that if you strengthen your front...the back will follow. I don't do full sit ups, EVER. I do crunches. Keep the lower back flat on the ground and lift up about 6 to 12 inches. The other end of the stomach can work with leg lifts, again I do them with back flat on the ground.

 

[Seabee John]

Being in the medical industry, I'm sure I don't have to tell you how to heal yourself, but what the hell, I'll do it anyway. I'm a landscaper by trade (I own my own company) and it never fails... At some point during the year I'll blow out my back doing something two or three of my employees would do together. This year I was "showing" how easy it was to lift a 300lb paver saw onto a stand. Anyway, my wife is an Aveda certified massage therapist and she convinced me it was all in the consumption of water. If you normally consume two gallons of good clean water a day (Not filtered through your mash ton and purified via boiling and aging in a fermenter) you will notice a recovery time of half what the Doc's tell you. Give it a try, the worst that can happen is you make a few extra trips to pee.

 

[the_Roqk]

Thanks SeaBee John,

Believe it or not I used to be a Licensed Massage Therapist, and I know all about the advantages of proper hydration. Not to knock what you're telling me and the advice is great. I have resigned to believe that given my age and from what the doc told me that I'm at the right age to start expecting problems with my back. Anyway I usually stay pretty hydrated with H2O and even after tossing back a few beers I'll drink water to keep my H2O balanced. But for some reason about 2 1/2 weeks ago my back decided to give out. Right now it's still a little sore and will continually be so for awhile. I'll just do what I hafta do to get better and rest for awhile. Thanks for the advice, and I'll someday be able to start doing crunches again.

 

[mrk305]

The chiropractor I go to uses a tool to move your discs instead of cracking the heck out of everything you got. I forget what he calls it, but he puts in on the disc and it just kind of pops it back in place. New school chiropractors aren't like the ones I went to in the '70's.

 

[Hippie]

I got wrestling around with my work partner the other day and got pretty f'd up. We were in the back of a box truck and I had him in a side headlock when he was able to get me a little off the ground and drove me into the side wall with his arm around me. I heard a bunch of pops and dropped to the ground having trouble catching my breath (no deep ones). I kept working through the day in a ton of discomfort, then had a three day weekend consisting of mostly bed rest.
I worked the next monday (out of state road trip) feeling minorly improved and by end of day tuesday I felt wonderful. That night we went out and I tied one on, and slept on the bad side, reaggrivating it, then pushed it at work the next day. Yesterday wasn't bad, excepting some spasms after coughing (stuck in a work vehicle, unable to stretch it out), but last night was horrible. My bed needs replacing, as it isn't supportive and makes my body carry the load. At 3:30, I rolled over and it felt like someone stabbed me. I have had decent discomfort today, but when I sneezed earlier, it was one of the most agonizing things I may have ever experienced , which is saying something!

Oh well, thanks for letting me vent, I think tonight is mattress on the floor and happy thoughts of tuesday past as I think alot of the problem has to do with my bed, as shown by being virtually pain free one day after using a good one on the road

 

[JnJ]

I've been dealing with 3 herrinated disc for years. Well since July it has been really bad so I finally went back in. They did x-rays, MRI, and gave me vicadine and flexeril that dont do crap for the pain. So they get the MRI results and send me to Nerosugery. One of the disk L4/L5 has colapsed. So they want to try PT (which has never helped me) and pain management (injections, which I want to try) for 3 months but the surgeon said he believes it will require surgery, and not one of the minimally invasive ones, no I need the spinal fusion. I'm going to put it off as long as I can because I don't have enough sick leave to be layed up for 6-8 weeks........

 

[Hippie]

Good luck to you man! I'd go with option 1 and get a second opinion, having that kind of work done could ruin you! My buddy had that sort of thing happen, and he is in constant, often debilitating pain.

I am feeling much better. I changed my sleeping situation and am feeling improved for it. I am paranoid of coughing and sneezing still though. I carry cough drops and start chewing at the first tickle no more relapses and I should be right as rain

 

[JnJ]

I am paranoid of coughing and sneezing still though. I carry cough drops and start chewing at the first tickle no more relapses and I should be right as rain

Oh ya, sneezing kills. Laughing hard does too.

 

[aekdbbop]

OOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!! Now that's a thought!








Just kidding aekdbbop.

f.u. 5678910


(jk)

 

[the_Roqk]

f.u. 5678910


(jk)

Well! Ahem... GFY too!

 

[Danny013]

Well, you do carry morphine on the rescues...

Best of luck to ya, man! I'm just starting out my EMS career, I'm sure I'll have back problems eventually - if not from lifting then from leaning over and starting IV's for years and years. At least you have good insurance!

Take it easy, have a few extra homebrews. Always works for me