Back Pain, or: How I became the Hunchback of Notre Dame

So... last night my back began aching, nothing major, so i dismissed it. It stayed pretty minor until around 1700 today, when I noticed it was getting really bad (I couldn't bend over without wincing, walking hurt, etc...) And by 2000, it was excruciating to stand up or walk around. Now it kind of sucked because it's new years, and I couldn't do shit The pain is centered in the small of my back, feels like it's right in the bone - and unless I'm laying on my back with my feet raised, jolts of pain shoot through it every second or so

But yeah, I managed to pull myself out of bed because I'm bloody bored, and I want to roll a joint to see if it will help (and just because I felt like one), so I was wondering if anybody else has had an experience like this?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Feels like it's in the bone, but it probably isn't - does it feel like joint pain, muscle pain, or something with your spine?

I'll occasionally get really back pain in my back where something just has to be popped back into alignment, and muscle knots pop up all the time because of the positioning of my desk and chair at work.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Good God do I know lower back pain. It hasn't been a problem for a good long while, mostly since I lost all my excess weight, but sometimes after a particularly brutal back workout it will remind me that it's there, waiting to return one day.

Once, when I was walking to the mess hall in prison and experiencing back pain my back seemingly locked out on me and I had to stop walking for a minute or so to let it relax. It would fuck with me after sitting down too long and they trying to stand up. There are simple exercises you can find to stretch your back, and they definitely help. Be careful man, don't let this ruin your later years. Maybe your picking up shit without losing your legs enough? Arching your back too much? Lifting weights badly? Need to lose some weight maybe?

The first time I hurt it I was 15. Hiking with some friends. We come upon a rock that weighed at least a good 200 pounds and a friend and I challenge eachother as to who can pick it up. I go first, using all back and no legs like a fool. Picked it up, but I immediately felt the pain and my lower back hasn't been the same ever since, though I've found ways to treat and strengthen the area in the last ten years.

I won that bet, but it sure as fuck wasn't worth it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm pretty tall and I've been having back problems for well over 2 years now. Nothing a couple of self-provoked cracks can't take care of though! If my back hurts or if I feel stiff, I just push it in by myself and crack some of the vertibrae. Works wonders for a while, but doesn't feel too good in the spinal column after about 5 minutes. Half an hour later and it's the same.

But I get to hear my spine cracking!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I have some upper back problems mostly due to the fact that I grew quickly one year. I am 6'3" or 192cm and I have a bit of a hunch on the upper back. I have problems with it sometimes but usually I am fine. I try to make sure I straighten it out every once in a while.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Jesus man. Correct posture can do you wonders; try it before you get too old.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I used to have really bad back problems that would reduce me to crawling. I had gotten in a car accident about ten years ago and it seemed like things went downhill after that. I've been to the doctor several times about it. About a year ago, one doctor said it was pressure on my scatic nerve, which explained why pain would shoot down one of my legs. It took a few months and it went away. However, every now and then, it comes back.

FELIPE NO

yes I have, and it was agony. I was forced to take a day off of work when I didn't want to because of it. luckily, I got some icy/hot patches and some rub a535 to help out with it, it cured it in no time

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Yeah I know plenty of back problems. I lift 40lb boxes all the time (I'm a female, no strong upper strength) at work in the morning to put down on a cart that's a foot off from the foor. And those boxes usually have books or bottles of food or lotion. :\ I had major problems where I was walking with a hunched over stature. But that went away quick when I told them I cannot lift anything anymore. Thankfully that worked itself out.

However... I transferred to another store a few months later, and my car ended up in the shop to where I needed to walk a mile to work. Not a biggie. But around that time, I got what Lady Miyomi got. A spiking pain in the buttock at least it felt there, and soon it was progressing further down to my right sole of my foot as months went by. I went to the doctor, and I was prescribed inflammotory meds but the good that did. I went to the specialist, then finally surgeon in the matter of 7 months of the whole damn ordeal. It hurt so bad its jsut hurting all the time. My leg would feel like its on fire with the shooting pain.

The surgeon saw my MRI and said oh yeah it needs to be taken out, turns out it was a large protuding nerve bubble (inbetween disks) that was obstructing the other nerves that connected with my leg. That's pretty much a herinated disk right there. He told me after surgery that it was large enough to be a size of a thumb nail. :\ Crap. He didn't expect it to be that large either, but man do I feel better. My leg pain is gone, and I can walk without a limp now. On occasion though, I would feel that phantom nerve spike though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.