What things bother you the most?

WAH! Now I'm seeing the YT vids on the index page. Bah!

Husband's back is out again. Had an emergency visit to the chiropractor today. Thank heavens he works on Sundays.
Back to taking care of the farm on my own again. :sweat:

Eve wrote:Husband's back is out again. Had an emergency visit to the chiropractor today.

I feel his pain, suffer from back pain myself. He should go get an MRI if he hasn't already.

Jav_sol wrote:
He should go get an MRI if he hasn't already.

Hopefully, it won't be an MRI like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EkOhKXS9Fk&feature=related

The MRI's start at about 5:00 into the video.

Eve wrote:Husband's back is out again. Had an emergency visit to the chiropractor today. Thank heavens he works on Sundays.
Back to taking care of the farm on my own again. :sweat:

Mebbe you overworked your hubby. :hehe: >>runs<<

I hope it gets better soon! He has a wedding to help plan!

On Topic: Marking. :bleh:

Jav_sol wrote:I feel his pain, suffer from back pain myself.

Getting any treatment?

bmwracer wrote:
Getting any treatment?

I go to the chiropractor a couple of times a year, it has really helped me a lot. Before, when I was only going to physical therapy I would still get severe back pain.

gaijinmark wrote:

Hopefully, it won't be an MRI like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EkOhKXS9Fk&feature=related

The MRI's start at about 5:00 into the video.

I better avoid that hospital when in Japan.

Jav_sol wrote:I go to the chiropractor a couple of times a year, it has really helped me a lot. Before, when I was only going to physical therapy I would still get severe back pain.

I've got a bad disc in my lower back which resulted in sciatica... I had several rounds of cortisone injections (no fun at all) and the relief was temporary at best.

Physical therapy helped: lots of core exercises to strengthen the muscles in the abdominals and lower back... Been pretty much pain free for the past three years. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
I've got a bad disc in my lower back which resulted in sciatica... I had several rounds of cortisone injections (no fun at all) and the relief was temporary at best.

Physical therapy helped: lots of core exercises to strengthen the muscles in the abdominals and lower back... Been pretty much pain free for the past three years. :victory:

Core exercises are key...I had nagging chronic neck pain for years and I tried many different treatment modalities...some helped, most didn't...but I found when I tried Pilates (yes, I had to get over the stigma) which totally focuses on core muscles it made a significant difference and virtually eradicated my pain.

bmwracer wrote:Physical therapy helped: lots of core exercises to strengthen the muscles in the abdominals and lower back... Been pretty much pain free for the past three years. :victory:

I still do the exercises I learned in PT.

Jav_sol wrote:
I feel his pain, suffer from back pain myself. He should go get an MRI if he hasn't already.

He has. It is from an old sports injury.

Luckily we have a great chiropractor. Two sessions and he is standing straight again. What a relief. :victory:

gaijinmark wrote:

Hopefully, it won't be an MRI like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EkOhKXS9Fk&feature=related

The MRI's start at about 5:00 into the video.

That hospital has some ugly nurses. Love the paddles. :hehe:

Jav_sol wrote:I still do the exercises I learned in PT.

Have they helped?

Tu_triky wrote:Core exercises are key...I had nagging chronic neck pain for years and I tried many different treatment modalities...some helped, most didn't...but I found when I tried Pilates (yes, I had to get over the stigma) which totally focuses on core muscles it made a significant difference and virtually eradicated my pain.

Right on. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Right on. :victory:

Better than taking painkillers (which I never entertained) for the rest of your life...

Tu_triky wrote:Better than taking painkillers (which I never entertained) for the rest of your life...

Yeah, the ones the doctor prescribed didn't do much other than sap my energy... And the cortisone epidurals were more painful than the sciatica itself. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, the ones the doctor prescribed didn't do much other than sap my energy... And the cortisone epidurals were more painful than the sciatica itself. :bleh:

I feel you, dawg. I know someone with exactly the same thing...sciatica but down both legs...and she's taken multiple epidurals....shit wears off and like you said, initially it's mad painful. People need to open their minds to alternative methods of treatment instead of accepting all the shit that doctors keep shoveling.

Tu_triky wrote:

I feel you, dawg. I know someone with exactly the same thing...sciatica but down both legs...and she's taken multiple epidurals....shit wears off and like you said, initially it's mad painful. People need to open their minds to alternative methods of treatment instead of accepting all the shit that doctors keep shoveling.

We were glad to have to have a couple left over painkillers for him that night so he could sleep through the pain but they are no more than a temporary stopgap. The chiropractor was the solution.
I cant really take them as they make me so nauseous. :bleh:
Ive been doing weights to help build up that area and have been having less problems. :victory:

Eve wrote:Ive been doing weights to help build up that area and have been having less problems. :victory:

That's the way to do it, Evie... :victory:

The thought of having to depend on prescriptions (and their side effects) for the rest of my life really motivated me to find and try alternate solutions.

bmwracer wrote:
Have they helped?

I would say so, those exercises combined with the visits to the chiropractor, it's been years since I had severe pain, they type where I can't even walk.

bmwracer wrote:
That's the way to do it, Evie... :victory:

The thought of having to depend on prescriptions (and their side effects) for the rest of my life really motivated me to find and try alternate solutions.

And the side effects are endless...... :shakehead:

Jav_sol wrote:
I would say so, those exercises combined with the visits to the chiropractor, it's been years since I had severe pain, they type where I can't even walk.

One of the reasons I try to stay really fit is I spent 4 months flat on my back in '99. What a horrible summer. :shakehead: