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2004/01/11, 02:35 AM
Hi there,
What I am looking for is maybe someone who has been in my shoes and knows some exercises I can do to relieve some of my pain.
I injured my back "chipped a lower disc" at the age of 15. The doctors didn't do anything then and said I was young and my back would adjust to the injury.
I am 36 now and for the last 4 years I've been in bad pain to major pain daily. I've been to many doctors and had lots of steroids which work for a few months, I've gotten a mini surgery to relieve a pinched nerve. You name it I've done it therapy, chiropractor, acupuncture the list goes on and on.
My pain management doctor just released me to a surgeon, because he thinks he has done all he can and that I need major disc surgery now. I don't see the surgeon until Jan 26th.
I am doing AM yoga every morning which helps I can do almost all the positions and it seems to help me and it really helps mentally too. "My pain management doctor had me stop doing my yoga for months he said he wasn't good for my injury, but my body thinks it is because after I stopped I hurt even more and got really moody. I started back at the first of the year and mentally I am feeling much better plus my back feels some what better after also." I am also doing 20 mins with a wearing a back brace on my glider. I can't do it all at once but I am up to going 10 min twice a day. I can walk with the back brace, but the cold really makes me hurt worse. It's only 49 here, but I walk 1/2 a mile to day and it felt like I was going to die I hurt so bad.
I am on a lot of medication and I hate it. I take bextra, loratab, zanaflex and moraton at night. “Sorry I am sure I spelled all these wrong” Besides low back pain I have pain running down my right leg and my two little toes go numb. I hurt doing everything but standing is the worse.
Sorry this is so long, but if you have any helpful idea please share them with me. I am willing to try anything. I know there has to be something I can do to get better.
I am eating healthy and taking vitamins and working at losing 27 pounds. I am 5'6 and I weigh 157 pounds.
Thanks so much and I wish good health to everyone!
Laura/New Orleans
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