blew my back out five years ago, it really sucks. Until you deal with chronic, consistent pain, you can't understand it. If you've got a herniated disc, you need to stay on your back and give it rest. I ate ibuprfin till it burned up my stomach, took previcid to ease my stomach and got backed up, too laxitives to free my self up. Hurt like hell taking a dump with back pain. Its a viscous cycle. Physical therapy helped me a lot, I had a good therapist the first time around. he concentrated on SI alignment. It kept coming back though and I ended up with cortisone shots, I did those for over a year, they didn't help much. Had a different physical therapist this time and it made things worse. The exercises they had me doing were making it much worse. I tried to tell that ***** it was making it worse, but she told me i was wrong and didn't know what I was talking about(she was a hard body though). I stopped going to that place By this time both my legs would go numb while walking. Went back doing what my fist PT told me to do and kept using my inversion table. The next time around It came back with a vengeance wile i was putting a water pump in a mercruser. I ended up taking a ride in the ambulance. Long story about dealing with the emergency room people, If I could have got my hands on the doctor, he would have been in a hospital bed beside me when I got thur. They finally diagnosed me with stenosis, from what I could interpret, my spinal cord was too large for the spinal column. They went in and routed out the inside of my spinal column. Since them its been much better. I have an inversion table I use from time to time, I need to do my exercises regularly and I need to loose weight. In my opinion, shots are a short term solution to get the swelling down. Get a proper diagnosis and see what surgery options are. Check around with different doctors if you're not happy with whats going on. Do your exercises and loose weight(yea, I need to do the same)
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