Pain in the Back (409 hits)
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Submitted by Stacey <woplover.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-09-27 16:49:42 EDT
What do you do when you have chronic pain? I am not talking about your pain-in-the-ass little sister, or that nagging hangover headache. I am talking about back pain—the most excruciating and overwhelming pain that there is. It has been quite a trip (literally) to find things to do, but I have tried just about everything.
It was about 2 years ago that some doctor read an MRI and told me I have a slipped disk. So what? Well, it may sound minor, but it has put me in the hospital and has been the cause of so many days of missed work and pay. It sucks. But let me tell you about all the weird shit that can be done with a hurt back.
My first trip was to an orthopedic surgeon. He doped me up on drugs and sent me to physical therapy. The fortune I paid for physical therapy didn't work, but the drugs helped a lot. So I stayed with that, and I still have to take it. You know, I could be selling this stuff on the side of the road and be making a fortune. Too bad I need it.
After a year of just taking narcotics (which isn't always a bad thing), I went to an atlas orthogonal chiropractor. I know, what the hell is that? A friend referred me to this guy, and you know, it helped. They tap you atlas bone (the first vertebra under your noggin) back into place with radiofrequency. There is no cracking, popping, jerking, or any weird table positions (not the place for you kinky sorts). Your whole spine just kind of falls into place. It felt great. They also hung me upside down on an inversion table. So I put on some gravity boots, and hung on a bar upside down for 10 minutes every week to try to stretch me out. That didn't help so much. But it was interesting. So I still go to this chiropractor. Really, it's not quackery.
The latest venture was to an acupuncturist. I actually paid someone to stick needles in me. After some conversation about chi, and laid face down on a table and got needles poked in me for about 45 minutes. There was one in the top of my head, several in my ear, and lots up and down my back and at the base of my skull. I laid there, and almost suddenly, I felt like I was floating. I have never experienced anything like it. I will be going back very soon. It was better than the Darvocet.
Tomorrow I get to try a new machine at the Pain Management Center. It is called the DMX 3000, and experimental thing that stretches you out and pokes the disk back in place. Some Indian guy named Renee runs the thing, so I am a bit skeptical to lay on a machine named for a rapper. But I will try anything.
Hopefully, if any of you have pain, perhaps this post will help you find something to work for you. I have actually learned a lot through this, and it has opened my mind to stuff I really would have pooh-poohed any other time. The moral? Just try it. You never know.
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Submitted by Sofa_Ace (user info) at 2004-09-27 19:56:42 EDT (#)
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I used suffer from chronic back pain, until I prescribed myself "don't be a little fucking bitch".
Submitted by tlovess (user info) at 2004-09-27 18:33:01 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2004-09-27 17:18:13 (#)
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ARTIFICIAL INTERVERTEBRAL CERVICAL DISC
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You have this? ugh. I can only imagine. Mine is lumbar. I wonder if they would do that for me lumbar style
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2004-09-27 17:18:13 EDT (#)
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ARTIFICIAL INTERVERTEBRAL CERVICAL DISC
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-09-27 17:12:28 EDT (#)
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I just had surgery.
Submitted by tlovess (user info) at 2004-09-27 16:54:26 EDT (#)
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Oh, yes, with a vengeance.
Submitted by gibberish (user info) at 2004-09-27 16:53:01 EDT (#)
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Oh no, back pain.