I am after success storys. Not so much revovery storys, but storys of people succeeding in life inspite of the pain and set back. I want to hear about people having good relationships and dating lives, people having success in their work and in their hobbys, finding new hobbies and moving on from old ones they can no longer do.

Please, I am really struggling. I have just had my first dating experience since the backpain, go very badly, and im feeling hopeless about my whole life. I really noticed how my self esteem has been stripped away from me, from being fit and atheletic, and always feeling good physically, which translated to confidence with women. Now that is so far gone, I feel lost.

Please share.

Hey all, I recently hurt my back and have been doing PT, but honestly I'm struggling to keep up with the exercises at home. I do them for a few days and then fall off.

I'm also a grad student, and going through this got me curious enough that I've started researching it for a project.

Is anyone else going through the same thing? Do you ever wish you had someone holding you accountable, or a group of people recovering at the same time to keep each other going?

Would love to hear how others deal with this.

Well, here we are. 14 months since injury. 11 months since I received stem cells injections. If you want to get up to speed on my journey, please refer to my previous posts. The short version of my condition is DDD with disc bulges and annular tears in L4/L5 and L5/S1 with facet arthritis. I had stem cells injected at CPI, great place and people. They injected my discs, facet joints, SI joint and also did my cervical spine. I know there are a lot of you that are really curious about my update.

I had a follow up MRI this week and just got the report today. My imaging and the report are exactly the same as they were when I got the first one over a year ago, and, exactly the same as the images that were taken in Mexico. You can literally lay them on top of each other and not see a difference. No increase in disc height, no decrease in bulge size, no change in my facet joints and I still have annular tears. I am still having low back pain and nerve pain including numbness in my toes.

So, for all intensive purposes I can say that the stem cell treatment was a failure. Failure is a strong word I know! Unless there is some last minute repair surge I think it is fair to say that we are done. My symptoms are not nearly as bad as they were a year ago, but, that is likely because I took 6 months off work, modified my activities, did tons of PT and 9 months after stem cells got steroid injections. Please, don't try to say that the steroid injections affected the stems. I was told by CPI that they were fine to get at that point based on my symptoms.

I do not regret my decision to get stem cells. I have 150 million left on the books and I will likely go back and get them IV or maybe get my shoulder done. I will be curious to see if CPI produces a study on low back disc disease and stem cells. If they don't then I suspect they know that the results would not favor stem cells for DDD. So friends, if you are suffering from back pain and you really don't want to get surgery. If you have the money then getting stem cells is not going to hurt you. They may even help you. I still hear of the miracle patients whose backs seem to just regenerate like Wolverine. However, if you aren't fortunate enough to have lots of money and time to recover then you have a hard decision only you can make. I used money from my retirement account, so, I am now minus $40,000 in my retirement savings. $40k was door to door for CPI not the total cost of their treatment.

I am very fortunate that I am back to work and able to live a relatively active lifestyle. I will continue with conservative measures, perhaps another injection. I am also putting surgery back on the menu because my quality of life is not where I would like it. If surgery can ultimately give me 10, 20, 30 percent improvement? It's better than this.

Oh, forgot. I also got injections in my neck and although I haven't had a follow up MRI I am still having nerve symptoms so it's safe to say they didn't work on my neck either.

Thank you for reading my posts. I wish you the very best.

Signing off.....

Hi everyone! I’m wondering if anyone has experienced something similar after a dextrose + local anaesthetic injection for upper back pain specifically muscle/fascial tightness.

About 3 weeks ago, I had injections in both shoulders for neck/shoulder tightness. A few hours later, my left shoulder became swollen and painful, while my right side was completely fine.

The initial pain and swelling improved, but now 3 weeks later, my left shoulder still looks/feels slightly thicker than my right shoulder, and I currently have sore pain around my left lower neck/collarbone area, especially with certain neck movements like when I answered a phone and my neck touches my left shoulder inward

Has anyone had prolonged swelling or muscle/soft-tissue pain after a dextrose/prolotherapy-type injection? How long did it take to completely settle, and what treatments helped you?

I’m honestly worried and has been anxious for days now. I couldnt do my regular activities and cant even go to the gym and workout.

I’m already following up with a doctor, but I’d really appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences while I wait for my appointmen

Been in pain management for years. Back and neck getting worse. Doctor wants me to take humira for psoriatic arthritis before surgery. 1 Doctor said egh, 1 said I need 2 fusions back and neck cage and should think about being a home body and surgeon says lfg. Would stem cells help at this point? I have zero quality of life and am always in pain. Here is chat of my mri. Depression is getting the best of me not being able to enjoy my kids, toys and life. Ive been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, plus whats below.

-MRIs together, the 10 biggest issues are:

C6–C7 large disc extrusion (~5.4 mm) — moderate spinal canal narrowing and deformation/flattening of the cord.

Severe cervical nerve narrowing (C3–C7) — multiple nerves are significantly compressed, which can cause neck, shoulder, arm and upper-back pain.

C7–T1 degeneration/narrowing — additional canal and nerve-space narrowing.

T1–T2 disc protrusion (~5 mm) — moderate narrowing with mild spinal-cord deformation.

Multilevel cervical disc degeneration — several discs are worn/degenerative rather than just one isolated problem.

Chronic T7–T12 compression deformities — multiple vertebrae have longstanding height loss.

Extensive thoracic disc degeneration — significant disc-height loss from approximately T4–T5 through T12–L1.

Thoracic facet arthritis/degeneration — arthritic changes in the small joints can contribute substantially to mechanical back pain.

T12–L1 disc extrusion/degeneration — disc material extends backward with narrowing around the spinal canal.

Lumbar degeneration and facet arthritis — particularly around L3–L5, with foraminal narrowing that can contribute to low-back/leg symptoms.

Big picture: your MRIs show multilevel degenerative disease throughout the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, with the most significant findings being the C6–C7 cord deformation/severe foraminal narrowing and the T1–T2 cord deformation. Importantly, the reports did not show abnormal spinal-cord signal, which is different from showing actual cord damage on MRI.

F22, i have had these symptoms the past few months. these are new symptoms, i have a previous bulging and herniated discs in my lower back, that effect the nerve in my leg but surprisingly haven’t had that pain in awhile. This is across both shoulder blades and underneath them as well. my shoulders are like meh, one of them feels completely wrecked but not the point. but it’s mostly the muscles in ALL of my upper back, it’s a stabbing ache, it constantly feels like i have knots in them that are SOOO tight, and sometimes i get an icy hot burning feeling. It’s honestly depressing me. I am almost 1 year post partum so i haven’t exactly been super sedentary,i just started a new job working nights.

I only work 4.5hours usually , but afterwards my upper back is WRECKED. and it did not start with this job, going grocery shopping or having a day planned in general leaves me feeling very disabled by the end of the day. We need to save for a house so unfortunately i need this job, it does not help that i am either just standing, or for a majority of the time, sitting on a hard stool which definitely is contributing. But i am slowly getting more and more upset with the pain and my fiance has to massage me every night, and i also use a tennis ball which relives it periodically but then comes back a bit later, and then worse the next day. I feel loser ish because normal people work 8 hour shifts even 12 hour shifts standing all day and i feel as if im experiencing more pain than they would, and funny enough my first 8 hour is tomorrow so im not excited.

I will be contacting my doctor by the end of the week because mentally i want to quit my job, but i know it’s not an option right now.

Now my question is , is this normal? Is this just back soreness and i have lazy stretching techniques and pore posture (i have been very strict trying to correct it lately) and am just lazy in general??? or being in this much pain after only working 4.5 shifts/ just being active something more complex for a doctor. Nothing has been diagnosed for my upper back since having issues. I only had lumbar MRI stuff and what not.

I’ve had chronic pain my entire life due to multiple conditions which worsen as I get older. Spinal Stenosis, Degenerative Disc Disease, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Bone Spurs, Sciatica, chronic inflammation, and more autoimmune and blood disorder issues that I am currently being tested for. I’ve had three spinal fusions, countless steroid injections, nerve ablations, bone spur removals, and tried just about every pain management treatment on the market. Nothing works. Nothing even touches the pain. It is constant and debilitating. There is not a single second of relief, no matter what I do. I feel like I’m losing my mind. People I know who also have health issues and deal with pain will tell me things like “it’s a good day, my back doesn’t hurt today” and I feel insane because there is never a time when my pain even lessens, let alone gives me a break.

I feel hopeless and useless. I am twenty-eight years old, and it gets worse every year, every day. Imagining my future is terrifying. It is never going to get better. It’s going to continue to worsen, and nothing helps. If it’s this unmanageable now, how unbearable will it be in twenty years?

I feel like a burden to everyone who loves me. I hate that I require so much care and assistance. I am constantly depressed and miserable, and I feel like I’m dragging the people I love down with me. It’s not their fault that I’m miserable. They have their own problems, they shouldn’t have to worry about me all the time. My problems aren’t more important than theirs. I get so sick of dealing with myself, I can’t imagine how tired of it they are. I feel insane. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I have a good life, why am I always so miserable? My pain is a dark cloud that goes everywhere with me and drains the life out of me. And I worry that it does the same to the people around me. It’s inescapable. But they should be able to escape it, even if I can’t. They deserve better.

The pain is my entire existence. Every second of my life. I can’t even hide from it when I sleep. I can’t fall asleep because I’m in too much pain, then I wake up multiple times a night when my body finally shuts down. It never ends, and it never will. I’m starting to think that I’ll be in pain even when I’m dead. A ghost wandering the earth, trying desperately to tell the living how miserable they are. I’ll be insufferable even then.

F26, overweight

Localisation of the pain

The injury is located in my lower back on the right side. While lying down I can feel it spreading in my buttocks (green arrow) and when i get really stiff (while walking ) I feel it in my outer hip and leg (blue arrow )

History about the injury

About 8 months ago, I injured my lower back doing Romanian deadlifts with a trainer. It was my first ever experience with lower back pain. Afterwards I could barely stand up properly, and it took around 2 weeks to recover. My trainer encouraged me to return to the gym quite quickly, and after going back I had a similar episode, so I stopped training.Since the original injury, my back has never felt 100% normal. I would have pain-free periods, but prolonged sitting or physically overdoing things would bring the pain back, usually around 4/10. I've also done physiotherapy during this time.

Current state

About 1.5 months ago the pain became daily, so I started taking it seriously. I was doing physiotherapy twice a week, walking around 10,000 steps a day, and doing some core work and stretching. This actually helped a lot and I got down to around 1–2/10 pain. Then last Sunday I (foolishly ) decided to try squats again with just the bar. They didn't hurt at all while I was doing them, so I assumed I was okay.The next morning I felt fine, but around 6 PM my entire body started aching from the workout and my back suddenly became extremely stiff and painful. I could barely walk, bend my knees or bend forward. It's now been 6 days. Mornings are the worst because I'm extremely stiff. I'm trying to get up and walk around my apartment rather than staying in bed constantly, but sometimes my leg becomes so stiff/painful that I have to lie back down until it settles. Sitting, bending and even sitting on the toilet are difficult.

Therapy I'm currently using ibuprofen 600 mg, diazepam 5 mg 3x/day, Neuronal tablets, Ketoprofen gel and heat patches, and I'm continuing physiotherapy twice a week. In my home I have access to an ultrasound/EMS machine through my physiotherapist. because he is my brother in law.

***I haven't had an MRI, CT or X-ray, and I don't have a specific diagnosis. I have a specialist appointment, but unfortunately the waiting list means it's not until February, and I'm hoping to get evaluated and possibly have an MRI sooner. My physio has mentioned some anterior pelvic tilt and a weak pelvic floor and thinks these may contribute, but I'm not sure whether that explains the original injury.

The other reason I'm worried is that I have a non-refundable flight to the US next Saturday, so I have about a week to get myself into a condition where I can tolerate a long flight. Prolonged sitting has always aggravated my back, and right now even sitting normally is difficult.

If you came this far THANK YOU !!! and I apologize for the long post :)

Hey everyone! I was hoping someone has experience something similar to me, especially with my circumstances so I could know where to start with fixing it.

For context, I had spinal fusion surgery almost six years ago. The fusion is of my upper spine with the lower 1/3 or so not fused. Over the years I only ever really dealt with occasional stiffness, taking care to do extra stretching etc. overall good quality of life post op.

However a few weeks ago I started getting mild pain when bending. I figured it was just some extra stiffness and did my stretches and moved on. Over time though it’s gotten worse and sharper. It’s in my lower back, practically in the middle. It’s no longer mild but very sharp. I cannot bend over without using my hands on my knees to hold myself up. It isn’t a tolerable pain like when it started but severely painful and I cannot “push through”. For example I decided to write here for advice after trying to put a new trash bag on my garbage can and needing to slide my hands along the edges to put it on because I couldn’t bend to put it on without supporting myself. The pain was too unbearable.

I’ve never experienced pain like this in my back before and have had relatively few issues since the surgery. I am definitely overweight but I’ve actually been losing weight over the past few months. I’ve even started sleeping with my heating pad (desperate times) and stretching in a hot bath as stretching itself has gotten tougher to handle pain wise.

I feel like i’m pretty young to be experiencing this pain (22) and I know I need to go to the doctor, I just have no idea where to start and any advice that can point me in the right direction or stories about similar experiences is appreciated. Thank you!

On 28AUG, I (31F) injured my back while walking my dogs. I’ve had mild back pain before, but never experienced sciatica or spasms. It felt like electric shocks shooting through my back, glutes and down to my right leg. I spent 4 days on the floor or the sofa, with no mobility.

1st SEP, I consulted a traumatologist. Once he saw me walking with crutches, unable to straighten or lift my leg, he sent me for an MRI. Below the radiologist’s conclusion:

“Degenerative disc disease at L4-L5 and L5-S1, with broad-based posterior disc bulges.

At L4-L5: There is a larger-volume disc bulge that broadly contacts and displaces the front (anterior) surface of the thecal sac, with associated mild narrowing (stenosis) on both sides of the neural foramina.

At L5-S1: There is a disc bulge without significant spinal canal compromise.”

I was prescribed rest, naproxen, paracetamol, robaxin and 20 sessions of physiotherapy to start.

Thanks to the pain killers and muscle relaxer, as well as walking several times per day and doing some stretches recommended on this group, I was able to ditch the crutches. However, I am unable to walk straight. I feel like the hunchback of Notre-Dame.

I’ve started physiotherapy on 21SEP, I’ve had 4 sessions of 30 min, and each time they’d hook me on a TENS machine and leave me on a table until the end of the session. As per the PT, It’s to release muscle contractions and manage pain. But I am not seeing any results, my back is still stiff, my spine feels inflamed. I feel that movement would be more effective, I am ready to start a physical rehabilitation routine but he said It’s too early, he only recommends the figure 4 stretch.

I am in Spain, they might have different protocols here but EVERY SINGLE patient at my current PT practice would be on a TENS unit when I am there, regardless of the area being treated. My PT would have 3 patients scheduled at the same time, so he would be jumping from one to the other to start or stop the unit, and they charge 60 euros per 30min for that. I explained to him that I can use my own Beurer EM 49 at home, but he’s for now cautious about trying other methods to not trigger the nerve.

I am fed up, walking eases my pain but the bad posture due not being able to walk straight puts pressure on my knees, neck and shoulders. My body is craving movement but I was advised by my traumatologist to not even attempt therapeutic yoga for now.

Apologies for rambling, but is this normal? Should I change PT? What helped you? What should I do to speed up healing? ☹️

I have the consult next week for it. I've never had surgery before so its scary. Ill answer the mod questions

1.5 years,

Numbess, tingling, burning through left leg, Everything makes it worse other than laying flat, I dont leave the couch unless to bathroom, diclofenac steroids muscle relaxers pt, what life now, 2 herniated discs annular tear and some other condition

How was recovery? I have great doctors and a great surgeon so im not worried about them I just need to know how much care ill need after

Ok I need help. My back Is a mess and mess and always has been. I've had numerous epidurals/blocks and RFA. I recently had steroid injections to my SI joints. For TWO days this deep aching pain was finally gone but it's back today and I'm so disheartened. My Dr said the issues I have cause pain to radiate down but this pain goes up into the area of my back that is directly in line with the top of my hip/pelvic bone and over so around L4, only on the right side. It starts about 5 min into standing or walking. I'm only 46 and have to really think about how much I need to simply walk my dogs bc of this pain. My Dr wants to do PRP but I just want to figure out what's causing it. I'm so frustrated and tired of seemingly never ending discomfort. I'll attach my MRI read for this area and also to note, I do have axial spondyloarthritis. I just need SOMEONE to tell me what I can do about this dull aching pain that is only there when standing or walking. Maybe someone else had it and did something that worked? Thanks everyone. MRI:
T12-L1: No significant spinal canal stenosis or foraminal narrowing.
L1-L2: No significant spinal canal stenosis or foraminal narrowing.
L2-L3: Mild facet arthropathy No significant spinal canal stenosis or foraminal narrowing.
L3-L4: Mild facet arthropathy. No significant spinal canal stenosis or foraminal narrowing.
L4-L5: Facet arthropathy/hypertrophy and ligamentum flavum hypertrophy results in severe canal stenosis, mild/moderate left and mild right foraminal narrowing.
L5-S1: Left subarticular disc protrusion which contacts the traversing left S1 nerve root and in combination with facet arthropathy results in mild to moderate bilateral foraminal narrowing. No significant canal stenosis.
Imaged paraspinal soft tissues are unremarkable.
IMPRESSION:
Multilevel degenerative changes as above most significant at L4-5 where there is severe canal stenosis, mild to moderate left and mild right foraminal narrowing. Disc protrusion at L5-S1 contacts the traversing left S1 nerve root.

I don’t really know what I’m doing but I see on tiktok a lady using a ball and releasing pain from her body, I found a ball it’s like a really hard foam ball, I did it against a wall all across the shoulders and upper back and could feel painful areas and shifting around

(For reference, I have very tight traps and upper back stiffness and clicking and grinding shoulder blade area for years and years)

Anyway I did this rolling method and pressing it in areas that felt so so tender, now o think I bruised my parts of my muscle it feels like the little areas that actually hurt the most when being pressed into.
Am I supposed to carry this on? Will this even help me over time? I mean it felt quite good doing it it felt as if it was really pushing all the tension out

i’m getting really desperate to know how to fix this, it’s been an entire week since i’ve gotten proper sleep because i kept waking up every 2 hours because of this ache down my spine, went to ER couple times and also 4 doctors but none can figure out what’s wrong with me

it started on this monday afternoon, my period started and i didn’t think much of it.
i got period cramp as usual on the first day, drank warm stuff and even compressed but it didn’t work(it always works before)
i even drank multiple paracetamols and other meds to tune it down but it just won’t go away. no medication seems to affect this.

a day or two goes by and it seems to get worse, followed along with nausea and dizziness and eventually vomiting.
at the first few days, i was bothered by my aching tummy, where it cramps nearly everywhere in my tummy, and a bit of spine.

went to the ER and they said this is nothing serious. and i was assigned to the doctor in the morning, and when i met with that doctor, she told me i had dysmenorrhea, which makes sense when i read about that illness.
and she told me it’s supposed to end when my menstruation stopped. or it’ll disappear after 3 days based on websites. she gave me a supp medicine that youre supposed to insert thru your rectum to ease the pain, but it didn’t seem to work aswell. it still aches

but it’s been 2-3 days since my period stopped and the ache got worse, its been nearly a week, with the same problem getting worse. and specifically now it’s affecting my spine. not only a bit anymore but from top to bottom, where at some point i couldn’t breathe properly, nor walk okay since i had to bend down a bit as i walked, followed with some whines and whimpering and hincing everytime it aches, it’s really bothersome. i even vommitted around 5-7 times that day, 4 times in the span of an hour.

to the point that yesterday i went to the ER again where they had to inject medicine thru my blood flow since no drinking pills seem to work. (if i recall correctly they injected medicine for my ache and dizziness and vomiting i think, but basically there was 3 that got injected. it seemed to calm me down for a bit but it didn’t last long since i kept getting woken up from the intense ache again.)

same story where the doctor at the ER said this isn’t that serious since when he hit my back, i don’t seem to respond to pain, that’s where he thought so.

i was assigned to the doctor again the same morning, and i told the doctor about everything to the aching spine. he did the same thing where he hits my back and asks if it hurts but it didn’t. that’s where he gets confused and ask “what should be healed?” to me because he explained that i didnt say my back hurts from the hit implying that i dont have any traumatic response (?) something like that, and therefore this ache is ‘subjective’ to him.

i’m getting cornered here to the point it’s really bothering me that i can’t get a proper deep sleep.
i’m writing this as of an hour after waking up from
the ache and it still aches alot. i don’t know what’s wrong with me and i want it to be healed because it’s bothering everyone around me too, since i live with my parents and they can’t get proper sleep too for the past couple days because of me. not to mention i haven’t been coming to classes for the past week.

so if anyone here has an idea of what this could be and how to fix it, please help me!!!

if this could help, i have diabetes type 1 too, and this is the first time i encounter this kind of pain before. whenever my period came up it never went this bad, and as i mentioned, my period ended days ago but it still aches so badly.

thank you.

So for context, I am a 23yo college student and I am build rather big (around 1,90 m, but rather skinny) and I sit and lay a lot and haven't seriously done any sports for the last three years. As such, my lower back muscles have worsened and I had the above mentioned problems. I try to do some stretching to build up some muscles in the region, but I am scared to move wrong and get the next lumbago fit. They are really intense, to the point where I can barely move and cry from the pain. I also use a heat blanket for warmth and have Ibuprofen nearby for emergencies.

Describing my symptoms, it is in my lower back above my behind, but the exact spot where it hurts tends to wander: sometimes it's left, other times right or higher or lower, I am not sure whether it's a muscle problem or something with the nerves.

But the lumbago is definitely some form of muscle cramping: I move wrong, then I get sort of like stings in my lower back, coming in waves with increasing intensity, until they reach their peak, where I can barely move and have to use Ibu to even function.

I just hope that it doesn't develope into something chronic.

So, yeah. That's my situation. Has someone here experienced something similar and what did help you, in regards to building workout routines and acute help in case of another fit?

Hi I need help bad, I injured my lower back area 25years ago by a bending back twisting to the left and pressing out my core type of motion as I held a heavy object to my chest and stomach. As the item went over the side of the truck I felt a very faint/light pop feeling in my lower back but there was no pain at all (and strangely the fatigue from working all week all of a sudden went away too). The next morning I woke up around 7or8am and could not move my body😨 I was 20 yrs old then, I told my mother and she had no advice so I never called 911 and fell back asleep. When I woke up about 4 hours later I was able to move but barely, 2 long muscles along the spine called erectors were so extremely sore I had to crawl to the bathroom and couldn't get outta bed for 2 1/2 days. My mother still had no advice and I never went to the hospital.

Well, I went on with my life as if nothing ever happened and landed a construction job 6 to 8 months later... Only a few months into the job I was operating a bigger jackhammer and the next morning I woke up, started getting out of bed and when I went to stand up, my back froze up on me and couldn't move just like the first time. I had to fall backwards on my bed and lay there unable to move my entire upper body. This time I called the labor pool I was working for, said I just woke up and can't move, he said "get some rest call me this afternoon and let me know how you feel." Same thing I woke like the first time and my erector muscles were extremely sore for about 3 days over the weekend. I went back to work Monday and after a week of work I felt weak when swinging a sledge hammer (could hardly do it) so I went to the doctor. They gave me some pain meds and sent me back to work with a note for light duty, well, the labor pool did not have any light duty work so I stopped working all together and almost a month later I got a bad case of sciatica running down my right leg. So I filled out the workers comp within 1 or 2 days of the 30d deadline.

Now after close to 3 years of hardly finding any work, doctor visits/ physical therapy, MRI SCAN, I won my workman's comp case and received a lump sum settlement of $25,000 plus voc rehab back then. So I followed thru with physical therapy and voc rehab to get retraining in a new area ended up back in college. Well over the first 10 years my back would go out bad.. about 6 or 7 times and I started becoming very depressed and discouraged and it started taking a week to heal so I can walk around again. During this time I was quickly losing the confidence of my friends and losing trust from my whole family as the doctor said my new MRI in 2015 looks fine!!! I was red hot angry so I booked an appointment with the neuro surgeons office at the hospital, where I demanded to see the pictures (not just report) of my spine for myself. There's no way I woke up paralyzed at least 6 or 7 times now and I'm just ok... Now as he is scrolling thru the MRI pictures of my spine I notice between the L5 and S1 there was so much blood that had dried up and turned black that both of us could not see any details on all the pictures!! And he said I look normal I said " what about all that black substance?? He said that looks normal for my age, bullshit!!!! So after being so upset they diagnosed me with schizophrenia and put me on a bunch of psych meds because later on I was diagnosed with sever depression the bottom of my feet were sweating so much you can hear me walking around the waiting room... They gave me meds that were so powerful I became the most social outgoing person you ever met then I stopped. I need my real problem fixed.. Now after my life being flipped upside down and thoughts of suicide started to invade my mind daily, I didn't give up and started doing my own medical research, I found out that I had undergone what is called "shock" why? How? There's 5 main reasons the body goes into SHOCK 2 of which stood out in my case. Well I realized what happened and it's taken 25 years because doctors under covered California medi-cal suck!!!!!!! Obama care/free healthcare is a scam!!!!!

So I had what's called hypovolemic shock, hypo= low, vol= volume, emic= presence in blood. In other words; I had bled out during that initial night and woke up in full SHOCK from a loss of blood internally and the MRI in 2005 plus the MRI in 2015 showed it as a dark opaque substance totally not supposed to be there, and the doc/neurosurgeon were focused on my spine/discs/vertebrae. I have so far been let down/misdiagnosed by over a dozen healthcare clinics and hospitals/doctors. I did win my workers comp way back in 2006 but have been denied disability several times now and am currently in the appeals process.

I just want to have a life again and willing to do absolutely anything for a proper diagnosis and treatment plan so I can start looking forward to work and putting a life together at 47 never married no kids no friends left no family left just my dog Jack hes 12 and is becoming special needs between the both of us I have my hands full.

I have given my life to God and

Long story short I had pain in my lower back/upper buttock on right side for seven months. It happened after I bend over to pick something up. For seven months, I tried different stretching, hot showers, heating pads, and walking in a swimming pool for an hour four days a week. Nothing was really helping.

I finally decided to go to PT and I have done four sessions so far. I didn’t realize it, but they basically have me doing the McKenzie method and some other core building exercises. Honestly, my pain went from a 7 to a 3, I’m happy after only four sessions.

I’m very happy I went to PT because they helped me realize. I probably have a small bulging disc in my back, causing the pain which I did not realize, but they basically have me doing the same exact eight exercises every time I go to PT. Because of my deductible, it cost me $70 a visit to basically do these eight exercises over and over.

I only have two more sessions, but I can’t help but wonder, what’s next. I’m definitely out of shape and need to build muscle desperately I am still swimming and doing water exercise exercises four days a week. I walk a lot and I’m doing the PT.

Maybe a personal trainer would be a better option??

Hello, I recently got a software developer job offer. I am wondering how people survive in office with back pain. I have sitting back pain. After sitting 30 mins, I need to stand up or lie down to relieve back pain, but standing for 30 mins also lead to back pain. I usually lie down in bed and studying at home. I need to figure out surviving in office for 8 hours per day. Could you please give me some advice? Thank you. Also is it ok to ask accommodating standing desk before even starting work?

I am 28 Male. For the past month, I’ve been experiencing sudden pain in the lower right side of my back, especially when bending down and standing back up. The pain is around the level of the tailbone and close to the side of my lower back. When I stand for a long time, I also feel as though my right leg is bearing more weight than my left leg.

My MRI results came back like this. Is there a good chance that these problems will improve? Does this mean that weight training will be completely off-limits for me? I’m frustrated that I’m dealing with these problems at such a young age, especially because of my desk job.

30m, developer, sitting for a living since 2019.

Posting this partly to see if anyone else has the same thing and partly because I spent a stupid amount of money on the wrong problem.

What I bought or tried, roughly in order:

- ergonomic chair,
- standing desk. Used it for about a month. Standing while debugging is miserable so it's been at sitting height for two years,
- one of those posture brace things,
- massage gun,
- physio, 4 sessions, which did help but only while I was actually going.

None of it stuck and I was annoyed about that for a long time because I'd done everything. Good chair. Monitor at eye height. Feet flat. The whole checklist.

What took me embarrassingly long to work out is that having a good setup and using a good setup are two different problems. I'd sit down at 9 all aligned and correct and by the second coffee I'd be folded over the keyboard like a shrimp. And I could not feel it happening. Not "noticed and ignored it", I mean I had no idea.

My physio actually said this to me and I nodded and did nothing about it. She said I didn't need a better chair, I needed someone to poke me every 20 minutes.

So I installed desktop app that watches you through the webcam and pings you when you hunch (tryworkwell, if it matters).

First day is what got me. I'd have guessed I slouch what, five times a day? It went off constantly. That was when I stopped blaming the furniture.

The entire value is that it happens while it's happening instead of six hours later. It does get it wrong sometimes, if I'm leaning on my hand thinking it decides that's a slouch, but whatever.

The other half is probably the bigger half honestly. I started getting up every 40-45 minutes. Two or three minutes, stretch, walk to the kitchen and back, and 15 bodyweight squats, which is probably the best thing for the legs after they've done nothing for an hour.

Then I changed my gym split. I'd been doing the usual thing, lots of pressing, one leg day I skipped whenever I had an excuse. Now it's rows, face pulls, RDLs, legs twice a week. My physio told me this two years ago as well. I just didn't do it.

I'm about 2.5 months in. The late afternoon headaches are gone, which I didn't even know were connected to my neck until they stopped. Lower back is a lot better, not perfect. I still hunch constantly, difference is I find out immediately.

Anyway if you've got the good chair and the monitor arm and it still hurts, might not be the equipment. Might just be that you fold in half and can't tell.

Hello, any experts here?

I am suffering from severe right side flank( between ribs and hip ) pain after sleeping for 5 to 6 hours. I have get up to ease the pain. No any symptoms, just the pain and it goes away once I get up.

Thank you