who else here has back problems/pain?

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during the worst of the hiccups [2 days and nights] I could not sleep. recycling my CO2 kept them at bay just long enough to eat something, but my GERD would bring them back with a vengeance. I am SO glad they have retreated. mobility is marginally looser than before the shot. but the parasthesia [pins and needles, weakness] is nearly the same. I think my body has somehow inured itself to the pain, in that I don't have to take quite as narcotics as before [half pill versus 1+]. pain when lying down in any position is improved maybe by one digit, from 7 to 6, and pain upon waking and getting warmed up/pain pills kicked in, is 4 sans narcotics whereas before it was a 4 with narcotics. so I guess there is a marginal improvement, but not enough to consider myself "well." the aforementioned clicks and pops are just as bad, to the point where PT would be pointless. so functionally it's a wash. it is not as good a result my brother in law got with his first shot which lasted several months and gave him effective relief. no wonder my neurosurgeon was not really enthusiastic about me getting the shots, in retrospect I realize he humored me and recognized that I was petrified after he described the surgery.

I voted on option #1. I have had this problem since I last carried a rifle.

army?

Hope you feel better ASAP, dear auntblabby.

Last edited by Booyakasha on 11 Sep 2014, 11:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

I've had two disks blow and had two separate microdistectomy surgeries a year apart. The injuries have left me with a dropped left foot and a numb void down the back of my leg. It can be painful, although nowhere near as bad as it was before surgery. It's really affected my mobility as I have a condition very like MS, but those are the breaks.

when I was 18 my scoliosis hit me hard...........a month into my 40's I grabbed a fly out of the air and felt a pull in a muscle I don't normally feel?
not until my 40's did it ever bother me like when I was 18? and the path to normality is slow

I have a double curvature of the spine. As I've gotten older, I have more problems with pain. If I'm trying to watch something on a TV screen, and sit at an angle, I'll end up in pain. Not too bad most of the time. I do fear taking a bad fall, or being in an auto accident.

thank you

my main scoliosis is between t8-14 and affected me greatly when I was young [giving me recurrent wry necks and much pain] but as I grew older my lumbar started barking at me louder. in any case, I wish I had an easier time making the decision.

I ahve bad back problems, but it's not anything serious. It's actually caused by poor posture against my spine. It can cause pain to me when I stay hunched over a bit for a long period of time though. I've been tested for things like scoliosis and stuff too, but it all came back negative, so I just chalk it up to poor posture.

please be kind to your back, it is the only one you will be issued this lifetime so make the most of it.

I have been trying to limit the amount of stress I put on it, but it's really hard for me. I know that poor posture is normal for those on the spectrum as well. ><

if you can make your body sag you can also make it upright. it is a matter of 1]will and 2]fear of what the future brings if one continues slouching now. surgery is about the most unfun thing there is.

my school nurse said that I didn't have it but when I was 18 laying on the floor because of it my brother had me describe the pain, then told me ya you have mom's scoliosis. so all of us(siblings) got the gene. this time it happened I took 2-3 days and stretched it out and went back to work. I was spraying out a basement(paint) and picking up and moving the pump like it was nothing, then at the end of the job I realized it is more about the weight I try to lift then anything, I have put myself on a weight restriction.
you said the shot wore off in a couple of days, has it gone away all together or does it come and go?

I wish mine was amenable to stretching out. it is just that my brain [so far[ has outlived my body. if when you ask "has it gone away altogether" you are referring to my thoracic scoliosis pain, I would say most of the time yes, I seem to have grown out of that. but my lumbar scoliosis has become far more prominent to the point of interfering with movement and of course it does not feel good. this has remained more or less constant. the lumbar epidural I received, after the Marcaine analgesia wore off, seems to have reduced my pain/parasthesia/stiffness from a 9 to maybe a 7 at best, upon awaking, then as the pain pills kick in throughout the day maybe a 5. before it would never get better than a 7. that is a marginal improvement. if it stayed a 7 then I'd have made a beeline to the neurosurgeon's office and scheduled myself for surgery but that level of pain so far has not come back.

What auntblabby said.

It might be worth it to check in with a pt or kinesiologist on exercises and stretches for preventative care. Though the pain might be easily ignored at the moment, the time might come when it will affect every aspect of your life. I'm not tryna freak you out or anything, but it's definitely something worth looking into if the pain keeps on getting worse (even if it's manageable, because it only takes one bad move/twist/jump/lean to go from manageable to unmanageable, a point that's hard to predict)