my wonderful back at age 25.... If physical therapy doesn't cure this Im a candidate for surgery Im going on 7 months with this crap! back in late November early December I was using a leaf blower (as I had been the past few months) and my back started to hurt more and more, finally I put the blower down and went home around 3.... 5pm I couldn't stand, move walk, crawl... it sucked!

Fast forward 7 months I was cutting grass as usual bombing right along full tilt and hit a F'n indentation from a truck of some sort and jolted my back.... another MRI and the disk never returned completely...

I bought a Teeter hang-up and its great but once I stand up after being inverted the pains come right back and my dang left leg is still off kilter! I cant go more than 10 min. riding in a vehicle or sitting in a certain position.


Anyone else on the back pain wagon?

 

Dont feel bad I am in the same boat. Intervertebral disc narrowing, my right foot numb about 60% of the time. Oh yeah I am only 26

 

I have had sore back on and off all my life, when I get it I usually work it real real hard the hot tub it and go to bed.....it works for me but I torture everything that hurts so maybe I just like pain,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I do know that without my hottub there are a **** ton of days that I wouldnt make it to work, a cup of coffee at 430 am in the tub does the trick

 

My left leg feels like someone is taking 5 meat hooks and draggin it down the back of my leg from my lower back to just above my foot pain pills and muscle relaxers dont work! I break out in a sweat in the truck going places from the pain.

 

that dont sound good man.......myself I refuse to go to the doctor as he will cut on me and I will be done

I say take 2 teenagers and call me in the mornin

 

im 24 and ive been living with this for 12 years.....you get used to it after a while, ive had my legs give out, wake up numb from the waste down, shooting pain, crippling pain, few other things, I just deal with it and keep working....it sucks but oh well.....


Whit you are right about the hottub though, i got in mine when i was home and it helped some, my dad gets in it 4 or 5 days a week in the morning......

 

Have you tried an LESI (Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection)? Alot of people get really good pain relief from them. Its usually a series of three injections.

 

Im supposed to start them but I have to have a evaluation from the doc that administers the steroid before I can actually get one and the soonest I could get in would be the 21'st of this month. Im about less than a week from running out of pain pills to somewhat ease the pain.

 

Will he not give you enough pain meds to last till you can get in to see him?

 

Believe me brother... I FEEL YOUR PAIN!

I lived with it at varying degrees for twenty years before L4-L5 finally popped. Worst pain I ever experienced! Couldn't walk. Couldn't stand. Not even to take a **** or a shower! Couldn't sit for more than a minute at a time. No way to get away from the pain. Hobbled from one room of the house to the other on crutches 10-20 feet at a time before my legs would fold. Ate Percocet, muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatories like candy! No effect on the pain what-so-ever! Was like that for 3 solid months before I could get in to see the neuro-surgeon.

Had surgery on it Sept. 11, 2007. Was up and walking 8 hours after the surgery and home the next morning. Back surgery ain't what it was just 10 years ago. Just a little 1" incision and they go in there with their little scopes and probes and lasers and clean everything up, repair the disk and in my case, grind a groove in the vertebrae to give the sciatic nerve a place to go with all the swelling.

I'm not 100% as I still will wake up a little stiff. But nothing a couple Alieve doesn't take care of.