Back pain

UncleWillie

UncleWillie

Rarely serious.
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I have been hard at it the past couple of months. We did relief work in WNC, cleaned out a 12,000 sqft building, hauled so many loads of scrap, hauled many more junk cars, and my back was fine.

Then we spent a week with my folks in TN where I mostly sat on the couch.

Friday we were hooking up trailers at home. I was backing up my pickup with Nick in my lap. Step was doing the hookups. On the last trailer I got out of the truck, and nearly dropped Nick because it felt like someone shot me in the spine. I pinched a nerve.

After some quality time on the back swing
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it finally popped. Now I just feel like I was beat with a bat.

Out of all the stuff I did it was getting out of the truck that got me. 54 is going great.
 
I feel ya. I have had 3 back surgeries (2016, 2017, & 2018) on the same disc. What I have learned is exercising to make a strong core is important. A strong core keeps everything in the correct place.

I used to have an inversion table. I sold it a few years ago because I no longer needed it.
 
VortecJeep said:
I feel ya. I have had 3 back surgeries (2016, 2017, & 2018) on the same disc. What I have learned is exercising to make a strong core is important. A strong core keeps everything in the correct place.

I used to have an inversion table. I sold it a few years ago because I no longer needed it.
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I've had one back surgery. My back hasn't hurt this bad since before the surgery.
 
It's usually bending down to tie your shoes or sneezing too hard that does it...

It never seems to be the strenuous, manual labor 🤦‍♂️
 
Monkeynono said:
I will add , yoga is great for your spine. I have 2 damaged vertebrae in my lower back and morning stretching is a big help
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Stretching has always been huge for me. Since I was 16 years old I’ve had disc issues (I’m sire 20yrs of football didn’t help)…never wanted to do surgery, so I just power through. About every 6 months since I was 16 I was flat on my barely able to breath for about a week. I did physical therapy, I did pain killers, I did chiropractors and massages…but the biggest things that have helped for me is stretching, strengthening my core and losing weight. Not sure which one helped the most, but haven’t had an issue in about 2 years…and when my back does start feeling a little tender, I just up the stretching.
 
First rule is don't let anybody cut on your back. Success rate is only 10-30%, depending on your source and the definition of success.
 
I laugh, but it does suck!

Luckily, all my discs are fine. Mine is just facet joint arthritis. Which still sucks because it'll make my entire body hurt depending on where the arthritis flares up and what nerves it decides to pinch. It masks other problems because I don't know if it actually hurts/has a problem or if it's nerve pain from the arthritis.
 
Sitting in the Spine doctors office right now waiting to review MRI results…

About 15 years ago I herniated a disc, had a micro discectomy and have been fine since… until Late May.

Squatted down to break a bag of ice on the driveway and POP went something on my back. Instant pain, and sciatica down the right leg.

Several rounds of Chiropractics got the pain gone, but there’s still a pinched nerve that is causing numbness and inhibiting motor skills in my right foot.

Sounds like the same disc is just not able to keep the discs separated and the nerve that passes between the two is being pinched.

Luckily, no pain. But the lack of motor function in the foot is a bitch. I can’t walk on anything off camber and down hill to my right.
 
Well, after an hour of waiting in the exam room for the doctor to diddle the male nurse in the supply closet, he said that he doesn’t think surgery is the answer and he believes that over the next several months to a year, my body will fix itself and regain function and feels.

The disc is definitely smaller since the surgery and it’s slightly herniated, but with proper PT, he’d rather wait until doing anything drastic.

Oh, and, the nurse was a woman and kinda hot. I think she liked me, she smiled at me.
 
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Well, after an hour of waiting in the exam room for the doctor to diddle the male nurse in the supply closet, he said that he doesn’t think surgery is the answer and he believes that over the next several months to a year, my body will fix itself and regain function and feels.

The disc is definitely smaller since the surgery and it’s slightly herniated, but with proper PT, he’d rather wait until doing anything drastic.

Oh, and, the nurse was a woman and kinda hot. I think she liked me, she smiled at me.
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PT cured/relieved my bulging disks. I still do the exercises years out from my original issue. And I have heard that exact statement from docs that in a certain number of years things will end up the same with or without surgery in some cases.
 
My back is really struggling too. It's really got me down mentally. I've been going to the chiropractor most of the year. Had an mri, but it doesn't show a ton. A very tiny bulge, but it's not touching a nerve, so they say. I have pain mgmt Wednesday. We'll see how that goes.
 
Had surgery last year for a collapsed disc (4 screws, 2 plates, and 2 cages), did PT for months and still have bending and twisting issues along with right foot always seems cold even when its not. They keep telling me "in time it'll get better".
 

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Yoga or stretching and staying active helps mine a lot. Work predominantly standing up, which surprisingly helps me much better than sitting at a desk doing CAD. I’ve got a multilevel herniation, sciatic and femoral nerve impingement, and my L5S1 has a tear that if I over do it lifting I get more nerve impingement than normal. Been avoiding back surgery for 10 years now, and really just staying active is the best thing for mine but not being stupid with heavy stiff legged deadlifts.
 
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