I screwed up. :-/

Trying to get all my crap packed and last night tried to drag my enormous gym bag filled with clothes into the next room. Now I'm too mangled to do anything significant today. D'oh.

and legs and hips. I'm kind of useless. It sucks. I just hope I can get everything done. 

Any surgery you could have? I've had chronic back pain since I was 20 after an awkward twisting motion goofing off on some monkey bars one night. It's always there but every now and then it flares up and makes me pretty damn useless. In fact I have a number of injuries which "flare up" every now and then...you do accumulate these things as you get older! 

Exercise.... yeah, I know it's a dirty word to lots of folks.

I had a chiropractor tell me one time when I was in to get a back "tuneup" that if people would simply exercise to strengthen their back and neck muscles, he would have less work to do. 

A few minutes a few times a week doing some strength training is all it takes to keep muscles in shape.  When we don't use them in normal work or exercise, and then we overuse them doing something...we suffer the results. 

I'm with you Beep... I had to work a little yesterday. I am semi-retired and have arthritis. Left hip, low back, thorassic spine disk problems. I did OK working but I was almost in tears by the time I got home. I could NOT get my truck seat comfortable, I forgot to mention... I have a slight curve in my spine, right in the middle of my back, it is nothing you would know by looking at me but man... once it flares up it is relentless. I managed to watch the Falcons beat the Saints.. YES!!!! Then went to bed. I was still a mess this morning so I took extra meds... sometimes it helps to sort of reset.
Do you go to a pain management doctor? If not, you should. They have some really good new treatments and if that don't work, they have really good meds. Of course you will have to go to a "bone and joint" specialist first, then get a referral to a pain management doctor. The cost isn't anything compared to the relief. Pain can and will rule your life if you don't address it. Then again if you live in a state that allows medical weed that may be a good option too but I don't know because I don't and have not tried it. I stick (almost all the time) with what is prescribed and with the dosages or lower. In ten years I have never run out of meds before the next refill. If you have any questions... I have tried most everything. One thing you can try if that may work well for you is Cymbalta and your regular Dr can prescribe it. It is used for nerve pain, fibromyalgia, and diabetes releted pain. It does not help muscle pain but works wonders for some people with nerve pain.

Really, I hope you feel better soon... and finally... ibuprofen is safer that tylenol as far as kidneys.

Julien

Hope your back snaps out of it soon. Hah!

Seriously though ... I hope you feel better quick.

When I was 13 or so, I was doin' a pop-a-wheelie off a section of the sidewalk that a giant Oak Tree root had pushed up in to a nice 8" ramp.

It was summer, hands were sweaty, they slipped off the handlebars, and I landed directly on my tailbone on the concrete.

Haven't been able to walk straight up since and as I'm getting older, it hurts constantly to the point where I let out a loud moan when I stand up. When every move you make hurts, you have a tendency to not exercise, then you put on weight, it hurts more, and it's a viscous cycle.

When it happened, I couldn't walk for 2 weeks, but you know how it is when you're a kid. The parents yelled at me for falling and told me to walk it off. Same thing when I broke my big toe running up the front porch steps one time. Never took me to get it set. It hurts like a son of a **tch sometimes now and it veers off to the left. Good thing it's on my left foot.

Sorry. Had to lay down for a bit. Thanks for the well wishes, guys. I deal with this all the time but I had been doing better the past few months so I guess I forgot how easily I torque out. I gobbled one of my muscle relaxer which I rarely do  (hate them) and flopped out on an ice pack for a while then took a hot shower. Little looser now. Hope it's enough to get back to business tomorrow. 

@bub... That hurts, man. When I was a kid I hurled myself from the top of a snow mountain the plows had made in the schoolyard and landed right on my tailbone onto a piece jagged ice. KEERUNCH! Took about twenty years for it to stop causing problems. It felt like a little chunk of bone was flopping around in there and it would pop back off if I fell on my ass wrong. It's all better now though. I just got all this other crap messing with me. Have you ever considered taking up swimming? That's probably the best way to get some exercise without exacerbating old injuries. I wish I could get out to a pool. If I could do that consistently for a few years I think I could get myself upright again. Alas it is not possible at the moment. Cheers.

@sharke... Beating cancer is HUGE and I guess that explains your penchant for health stuff. Fortunately I have not been bitten by the C word yet. Seen a lot of buddies go through it though and I certainly hope I can avoid that one. I should probably quit smoking though if I intend to but I'm more likely to drop from heart problems than that. And yeah... damn these fragile bodies. IDK... I see how messed up everyone around me is physically and can't help but think that our species just isn't as hearty as it used to be. But then again people in the old days may have been tough as hell but keeled over before they hit their fifties. Not sure what would have happened to me back then. Probably would have been set adrift on an ice flow or left in the woods or some crap. At least I live in an age where a person can use their mind to be productive in society... just still working out the details of how to actually accomplish that. lol. Cheers. 

Cheers, Old. It's all good. Just bad timing. I want to get back to making music but this other crap has to happen first. When it's done things (in theory) should be a lot easier. I'm quite excited. ;-) 

Ha. I've known a lot of dudes like that. Fortunately I learned my lesson from the snowhill leap when I was 6. I've still done a lot of stupid crap but mocking gravity stopped that day. Another thing I learned at that school was that licking steel fence posts in -30C weather isn't exactly wise. Also soap tastes really really bad which was taught to me by the hardcore Catholic principal upon learning I had used cusswords on schoolground. ;-)

WOO HOO! BEWBZ!

;-)

Crg


Get yourself an inversion table Beepster.

That or servants to do your bidding.

@crg... Those things scare the hell out of me. If something went wrong and I couldn't muster the strength to up end myself that's how the super would find me once people started complaining of the stink. Dying of starvation upside down... no fun. Maybe when (if) I'm stronger. Cheers

 
It's not that extreme. You don't go completely vertical-up side down. You pretty much go 45 degrees. Just enough to elongate the back-spine and let the blood flow into those pinched joints. 15 minutes will do wonders to your tension mis-alignment. I like to find the horizontal float position where you can feel the fluid part of your body drift back and forth and find the balance there.
It's just a stretch.

When I can afford one, I'm definitely getting an inversion table.