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My Aching Back
Mar. 1st, 2016 11:40 amI think my last birthday was when I officially became old. I say this because suddenly I ache all over.
First week of the new year, I threw my back out. I'm not sure how - I think it was tying my shoe; it certainly wasn't anything obvious like moving a heavy thing (unless you count my stomach as a heavy thing).
I took it easy for the next few weeks, and in late January it flared up again, just as bad. Again, I waited it out and it started to get better, but never got near 100% even after a few weeks. This weekend I threw it out again. Probably moving all that furniture over the weekend.
Since it keeps flaring up and not getting better over two whole months, I opted to go to the doctor. I wanted to make sure there wasn't something more wrong with me than just strained muscles. BTW, It's nice having a new doctor (really, a new clinic, but I'm part of their family practice, so I'm not just some walk-in).
I'm not sure what I was expecting - confirmation that there wasn't anything worse going on. I got that after a battery of tests administered by the doctor, amounting to "reach here", and "push there", and "do you feel shooting pains in your leg". The shooting pains in the leg thing I knew, from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halfdane866, to mean that I likely had a slipped disk. I don't have a slipped disc, thank the old ones. What I do have is your basic, run-of-the-mill strained back muscles, combined with either poor wisdom or poor luck - hence why I keep re-injuring it. Prognosis? Four to six weeks of knock that shit off combined with heat to make it feel better and ice if it starts spasming. Also, a suggestion that I do my back stretches religiously, and maybe get into something that builds core strength, like yoga or Pilates.
So no heavy lifting for me for the next little while (which sucks because I still have a ton of shit to move), and given that the most painful of her tests was the same as me aiming a bow vertically, probably no archery for six weeks.
Getting old sucks, though it's still better than the alternative so far. On the bright side, my Plantar fasciitis seems to be going away - or possibly I don't notice it because I haven't been walking/hiking/running very much. When I start running again, it will be slow and gentle.
First week of the new year, I threw my back out. I'm not sure how - I think it was tying my shoe; it certainly wasn't anything obvious like moving a heavy thing (unless you count my stomach as a heavy thing).
I took it easy for the next few weeks, and in late January it flared up again, just as bad. Again, I waited it out and it started to get better, but never got near 100% even after a few weeks. This weekend I threw it out again. Probably moving all that furniture over the weekend.
Since it keeps flaring up and not getting better over two whole months, I opted to go to the doctor. I wanted to make sure there wasn't something more wrong with me than just strained muscles. BTW, It's nice having a new doctor (really, a new clinic, but I'm part of their family practice, so I'm not just some walk-in).
I'm not sure what I was expecting - confirmation that there wasn't anything worse going on. I got that after a battery of tests administered by the doctor, amounting to "reach here", and "push there", and "do you feel shooting pains in your leg". The shooting pains in the leg thing I knew, from
halfdane866, to mean that I likely had a slipped disk. I don't have a slipped disc, thank the old ones. What I do have is your basic, run-of-the-mill strained back muscles, combined with either poor wisdom or poor luck - hence why I keep re-injuring it. Prognosis? Four to six weeks of knock that shit off combined with heat to make it feel better and ice if it starts spasming. Also, a suggestion that I do my back stretches religiously, and maybe get into something that builds core strength, like yoga or Pilates.So no heavy lifting for me for the next little while (which sucks because I still have a ton of shit to move), and given that the most painful of her tests was the same as me aiming a bow vertically, probably no archery for six weeks.
Getting old sucks, though it's still better than the alternative so far. On the bright side, my Plantar fasciitis seems to be going away - or possibly I don't notice it because I haven't been walking/hiking/running very much. When I start running again, it will be slow and gentle.
