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Rough weekend
Topic Started: Jan 10 2012, 09:38 PM (610 Views)
Spock
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Live Long and Prosper.

Saturday I worked around the house as I usually do on Saturdays. Sunday started off with my back feeling stiff. By lunchtime it was downright aching. Then around 6pm the a-hole around the corner started banging on my door to ask me a question about his boat motor. When I got up, I felt my back pop but it didn't hurt. I got through talking to neighbor dude, and went and set back down. Everything was cool until I went to get up. I nearly fell on my face because my right leg didn't work anymore and it felt like someone stuck a knife in my back. I almost had to crawl to the bedroom to lay down because the pain was so intense.

I had to call out of work Monday, cause if you can't walk you can't work. I laid flat on my back all day and barely got up to go the bathroom, which wasn't pleasant when I did go. Monday night I couldn't sleep because of the pain so I started taking some leftover Vicodin which I had on hand from a minor surgery 3 years prior. I started off with just one, which had no effect. Two hours later I took another. Might as well have been a tic-tac because it had no effect either. Forty five minutes later I took another. Turns out, 3 was the magic number. The pain was dulled enough for me to finally go to sleep. Needless to say, I woke up this morning with the worst hangover I have ever had in my life!

By this morning, I'd had quite enough of this crap so I went to the doctor. I managed to lie to myself for over 24 hours by telling myself that is was just a strained muscle, but by this morning I was convinced it was a ruptured disk. Here's where it get's interesting: The doc x-rayed me and diagnosed me with a severe muscle spasm. I told him point blank that there was no way in hell that a muscle spasm could hurt this bad. He assured me that the symptoms were normal and then he said "take off your shirt and lie on your stomach." That dude gave me three shots in the back that were like flipping a switch on the pain. All I can say is UN FREAKING BELIEVABLE !!! I am still a little sore, but for the most part the pain is GONE!!!

So the moral of the story, aside from me just wanting to whine about how bad it hurt, is take care of your back!!! I got lucky as hell, but I could have just as easily had a blown out disk which as most of you know can result in a lifetime of back pain. The doc told me that one of the main contributors to back pain is a weak core. So, it looks like my new project is loosing my gut. Take care of yourselves folks, I don't wish that kind of pain on my worst enemy. Showing off by lifting heavy stuff just ain't worth it!
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metrorob, i know how you must of felt but times that by a few weeks of agony :'( ...hubby had a slipped disk back in 2005 and couldnt work for almost 2.5 months...since he had workers comp. pay for treatment and therapy for his back, we didnt have to pay a dime (thankfully), but i had to work as a pizza delivery driver in the meantime while he recovered to help pay for bills and anything that came up...i continued to work as a driver for a few months after he went back to work...but the agony that he went thru while hurt i wouldnt want on my worst enemy either...

the day he got hurt at work, he called saying he had helped lift a table up, perhaps the wrong way or twisted a bad way and that later after sitting for a bit, he went to get up and couldnt at all...he had asked me to come out of the apt. when he got home because he knew he wouldnt be able to get out of the car by himself...he had gotten some vicodin from a friend to suppress the pain a bit but he still was in ALOT of pain :x ...since i was a c.n.a. (on and off the preivous 10 yrs.), i was trained to be able to lift him up w/o hurting myself and got him inside and he went straight to bed...next day he had alot of trouble getting out of bed, once again i had to help him at least sit up, wait a few mins then try to stand up and go to the dr. appt. which his boss had made that morning for him...he couldnt stand up straight, he was literally bent in half sideways walking...using a cane that he got from his late grandfather...

long story short, he still suffers from soreness if sitting too long...he uses a tens unit to relax his muscles when they get tense...so he still suffers to this day... :(
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The reason i am out of the army now, 2 herniated, and 1 ruptured disc in my lower back. Had surgery done on the ruptured. and had 3 epidurals, in which my body's immune system was too high and rejected all 3. I am 25yrs old and feel like im mid 50's cause of that.

You are 100% right, take care of your back. Lower back pain sucks. I hope you feel better, and it doesn't happen again! Glad your ok :)
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I had surgery done on my back for a ruptured disc that still gives me problems from time to time, I know exactly the pain you are talking about and I agree, I would never believe a spasm would feel like that.

I am happy for you that a spasm is all it was if that is the case, you are very lucky to have gotten off that lightly.
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Glad your feeling better. I have had back pain before that it even hurt to breathe! I really feel for these people who live with a back pain that never goes away.
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but i do hope for a speedy recovery for you metrorob... :drivin :thumb

i too suffer back pain but not from injury, its from mild scoliosis that ive had since i was about 17 yrs. old and it got worse after i had an epidural during my c-section w/ my daughter :shake ...i dont take meds, only if im in severe pain, i try to be a trooper and take the pain...ill probably end up hunched over by the time im 50 but i hate how i feel w/ those heavy meds so i take a simple advil or motrin to alleviate it...
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MetroRob
Jan 10 2012, 09:38 PM
The doc told me that one of the main contributors to back pain is a weak core. So, it looks like my new project is loosing my gut. Take care of yourselves folks, I don't wish that kind of pain on my worst enemy. Showing off by lifting heavy stuff just ain't worth it!
I'm happy that you are feeling better! :thumb

One of the best purchases I made was a $90 home sit-up bench off eBay. I see they start around $50; CLICK HERE. It has helped my back pain. :thumb

My bench is curved so I have raised the end so it lies a little more flat. I do not flex my back backward more than level. I have a routine. Since the bench is in the room between my desk and the bathroom, I do sit-ups after using the bathroom. I sit on the bench, hook my legs/feet on the pads and lean back to almost level then sit up.

Good luck. :thumb
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Thank you all for the kind words. :rocker I'm not 100 percent yet, but I'm getting there. It still hurts like hell to bend over and tie my shoes! But that's not the worst part; the worst part is that I have to drive my truck for the next couple of weeks because getting in and out of the Metro just hurts too bad :(

I hope all of you who have back trouble have a speedy recovery too!

Thanks again,

Rob
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