Well, I've been in hibernation. I took a week off from work to finish up some things at the shop last week and ended up straining something in my back. I spent more time trying to walk across rooms than anything else and I'm still in pain over a week later. At least now I can sit as long as I don't move too much or breathe so I'm at work this week. I feel like a 90 year old man and I still don't know how or when I did it. My back just tightened up and I haven't really been able to sleep at all since. Good news is that it seems to be better today, so hopefully it will work itself out by week's end. I have 5 more days to burn up for vacation, so I'm using those to catch up for the week I couldn't catch up on last week (something like that lol)
To make things even worse, my wife lost her job on Friday. Just in time for the holidays YAY!
nothing like that, but for the past 3 weeks, i've been grinding my teeth or something in my sleep so it hurts like a bitch when i wake up. Feels like somebody hit me in the jaw with a baseball bat until about 4-5pm, and then it goes away, only to start back up the next day
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If you back is still giving you excrement, it could be a slipped disc, those suck. If you go to a chiropracter they can usually give you a pretty good idea. I would go to a chiropractic massuse. They rock.
As for teeth grinding buy a mouthguard and wear it to bed. It will help. and usually will condition you to stop grinding you teeth. If you never used to grind your teeth you should probably figure out what's causing it, in your every day life. Teeth grinding, when you never had it before, stems from a new stress that has no outlet.
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back problems are nothing to take too lightly. you only have one back and its gotta last ya a long f'ing time. take it from the old crippled lady here. i've had 7 herniated discs now for the last 8 or 9 years as well as ddd (degenerative disc disease). they can't do anything for me. surgery isn't even an option yet as the disc replacement surgery where they pop in some titanium discs is only approved for lower back (lumbar) and upper and lower neck (cervical) areas. my injuries happen to be in the thorasic area (the middle, upper back). the thorasic surgery isn't even fda approved yet. even if it was, i probably still couldn't get it as in order to replace a disc in your back, the disc above it and below it have to be strong in order for the replaced disc to function. i got too many duds i guess. i never knew why my back started bothering me either. seems it just started in my early twenties for no apparent reason. come to find out it was due to a car accident i was in with my father as a child. then i'm sure i helped it with my head on collision at 24.
never-the-less, your back is nothing to play with. if it continues to bother you, see a professional and go ahead and get the mri so they can see exactly what's causing the pain. could be just a slipped disc, could be a pinched nerve, or could be a bulging disc that you want to get taken care of before it herniates. trust me, i live everyday in pain. after a few years, you get somewhat accustomed to it and its just part of everyday life. some days are worse than others, but i take my morphine pills (slow release pills called avinza), soma (pretty strong muscle relaxer), and lortab (stronger vicodin) everyday like freaking candy! trust me, get it checked out before you regret it.
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back problems are nothing to take too lightly. you only have one back and its gotta last ya a long f'ing time. take it from the old crippled lady here. i've had 7 herniated discs now for the last 8 or 9 years as well as ddd (degenerative disc disease). they can't do anything for me. surgery isn't even an option yet as the disc replacement surgery where they pop in some titanium discs is only approved for lower back (lumbar) and upper and lower neck (cervical) areas. my injuries happen to be in the thorasic area (the middle, upper back). the thorasic surgery isn't even fda approved yet. even if it was, i probably still couldn't get it as in order to replace a disc in your back, the disc above it and below it have to be strong in order for the replaced disc to function. i got too many duds i guess. i never knew why my back started bothering me either. seems it just started in my early twenties for no apparent reason. come to find out it was due to a car accident i was in with my father as a child. then i'm sure i helped it with my head on collision at 24.
never-the-less, your back is nothing to play with. if it continues to bother you, see a professional and go ahead and get the mri so they can see exactly what's causing the pain. could be just a slipped disc, could be a pinched nerve, or could be a bulging disc that you want to get taken care of before it herniates. trust me, i live everyday in pain. after a few years, you get somewhat accustomed to it and its just part of everyday life. some days are worse than others, but i take my morphine pills (slow release pills called avinza), soma (pretty strong muscle relaxer), and lortab (stronger vicodin) everyday like freaking candy! trust me, get it checked out before you regret it.
It's stories like these that makes me support Stem Cell research. My right knee is shot, but I wouldn't put it on the level of a bad back. I had a slipped disc once, and that sucked, I can't imagine going through that every damn day. Sorry to hear that.
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Slipped a disk right at my pelvis and according to the doctor (Chiro) there is nothing I can do except wait and see for now. I've been best friends with a heat pad for 3 days now and just got a prescription for muscle relaxers (yippie)
Apparently there isn't just one thing that caused it. The mixture of me being a smoker, working on a cold concrete floor on my back for 3 days 8hrs a day that week, and getting up and off the floor numerous times while working on a car contributed to it.
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Got some Advil I'll share with ya.
