Lower back pain

It is not bad enough to take pills yet. I have some at home but I only take them every now and then when I need to get a good nights sleep. If it is something I just have to live with then I deal with it. I guess I just need to get that MRI done so I know I am not on the verge of screwing something up majorly.

 

Thelt, I would encourage you to consult a good chiropractor or osteopath before giving up & assuming you just have to live with the pain. And before any type of medication or surgery a doctor might suggest, too. Ongoing pain of any kind, even if it's not severe, can cause a lot of other health issues too. There was a good article about some research on chronic pain earlier this year. Part of what that article said was:

suffering long-term pain could trigger these other pain-related symptoms.
Researchers found that in a healthy brain all the regions exist in a state of equilibrium. When one region is active, the others quiet down. But in people with chronic pain, a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion "never shuts up," said Dante Chialvo, lead author and associate research professor of physiology at the Feinberg School. "The areas that are affected fail to deactivate when they should."
They are stuck on full throttle, wearing out neurons and altering their connections to each other.

The entire article is available at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080205171755.htm

A good chiropractor or osteopath will be able to assess what type of imbalance or misalignment is leading to the pain, & probably also offer some natural method of either lessening it or relieving it altogether.

I have had some remarkable results with chiropractic therapy for back pain & for numbness that extends into the limbs. I even got complete relief from carpal tunnel syndrome in my wrists under chiropractic care.

There are QUACKS out there, of course. So I'd look for recommendations from patients on specific ones before choosing who to see.

Good luck.

 

I am wondering it if it has to do with my workstation. I spend all day at work behind a desk. I realized that I have a very poor sitting position. I am bad to recline my chair and slide down too far. I adjusted it to a better position and locked it in place yesterday. It actually feels a little better today.

I still plan to keep my doctor's appointment on it...

 

Stop shitting for more than 1 hour. Best solution - kill yourself.

 

I forgot about this thread. I saw a couple of doctors and one chiropractor and they all helped a little but I basically cured it when I started stretching and doing some core exercises every night. Alternating crunches and leg raises were a big part of it. I bought one of those little wheels you can use to do core training and used it as well.

 

I have arthritis in the lower back, stretching exercises are the ticket. I can screw and everything, pain free!

 

pain free for you, maybe. doubtful for the goat

 

Well, I HAVE been told I'm hung like a horse.

 

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