What is pissing you off this time?

[DanaC]

My stoopid fucking back is troubling me again. Sit for morethan 20 minutes and upon standing back up I appear to have aged about a half century....either that or I've been hypnotised into doing duck impressions everytime I stand up. takes like 10 minutes of walking about to straighten back up.

Then every so often it proper goes. Like, I stretch at the wrong angle, or I sneeze whilst bending to pick something up etc etc.

This has been the case on and off since it went really bad last month.

So, why am I suddenly posting in the pissed off thread? Well, to add to the joy f back pain, I seem to have either a stomach bug, or eaten something my body didnt like. Ate whilst out and about late afternoon, came back and have been back and forth to the temple of the porcelain god ever since. Not sure of the timing means it was tha food that caused the problem, or just that, as the first thing I'd eaten today it was the first to trigger something.

Bleh.

Puking whilst trying not to put my back out is a wretched way to spend a Friday night.

[Jaydaan]

UGGGG as I am off work for over 6 weeks so far, due to a bad back, I feel your pain! I am so sorry to hear you are sickly during this time. I know how much pain it is to sneeze with issues with your back.

[limey]

Dana, Jaydaan - try to get Treat Your Own Back from the library or wherever ...

[DanaC]

I'll look it up.

I do have some exercises I am supposed to be doing. And I'm also supposed to alternate hot and cold presses whne it gets bad. I've been doing some oft he exercises...some of the time. Not as regular as I ought but more than I ever have in the past. Most days i do a little. The hot cold gel packs are just such a fucking ballache ya know? Not sure they do anything either.

So...am still feeling shitty. But havent actually been sick since last night. I'm trying to work myself up to maybe eating a little something. Toast or something. Wish me luck!

[monster]

Pilates, people. Boring as all hell, but many success stories.....

[DanaC]

I kind of like the idea of pilates. But...I don't like the idea of attending a class, and there's nowhere in my house with enough room to do it.

[monster]

You get to choose which type of pain you would rather endure.....

[DanaC]

heh. Aye, there's that :P


On a serious note, one of the best exercises for the back, supposedly, is a good walk. I walk all the fucking time. I walk every day, several times a day, probably amounting to a couple of hours in two or three chunks. Not counting the to-ing and fro-ing, I'm talking going for a walk. Always have. Even when I didn't have a dog (for a few years) I used to get my headphones on and fuck off for a long walk several times a week.

I think along with considering pilates, and various other attempts to sort out my back, I shold probably get my arse in gear and buy a new mattress. This one's fucked. It's been fucked for ages. I know it's a major factor. That and the computer chair, in which I spend far too much time to be putting up with the slight slant, and the slopy seat.

:p


[eta] oh yeah and, 'lift with the knees, not with the back' etc when removing two stone of puppy from the bath

[Griff]

Work is pissing me off. Non-union 2 class gig means 9 hours on site every day. No time to prep or write reports on kids progress that's all homework. Administration dumped a bunch of 3 year olds on me mid-year whose needs and behaviors don't fit the program, disrupting progress for Special Ed and Typical kids alike. It feels like a goddamn daycare. And I had to call DSS on a family, I hate hate hate to bring the law into someone's home, it violates my very core beliefs. But I'm a mandated reporter my ass is on the line when you don't care for your child.

[monster]

Walking is only good if you have the correct posture and the core strength to maintain it throughout the walk

[limey]

Originally Posted by DanaC

1) a new mattress.
2)the computer chair, in which I spend far too much time to be putting up with the slight slant, and the slopy seat.
3)'lift with the knees, not with the back'
:p

1) We bought a new mattress a month or two ago. SOO COMFY! Money SO WELL SPENT.
2) I use a kneeling chair - I've been lucky to find two in the local charity shop
3) uh-huh!

[Sundae]

My "present" when I was away from home last time (Glasgow?) was a new bed.
I resented it at the time, as it meant the 'rents poking around in my room and binning things without consent.

But OMG. My love affair with it is still palpable, especially when Diz wakes me up at say 04.53. Whaaa? Huuhhh? Oh, more sleepy time on supportive mattress, lovely [spray water in catface]

A good mattress is a thing of wonder.

[footfootfoot]

John Sarno -- Wrote the definitive book on healing back pain.


I know several people who have been cured permanently after reading this book and putting the doc's advice into practice.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

...I shold probably get my arse in gear and buy a new mattress. This one's fucked. It's been fucked for ages. I know it's a major factor.

Then you'll be kicking your ass for not doing it sooner, like I did.
I used to work with a guy having back trouble, until the doctor told him to put a magazine under one cheek of his ass on his work chair. That did the trick, a chair just the thickness of a magazine out of whack, can screw you up.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Then you'll be kicking your ass for not doing it sooner, like I did.
I used to work with a guy having back trouble, until the doctor told him to put a magazine under one cheek of his ass on his work chair. That did the trick, a chair just the thickness of a magazine out of whack, can screw you up.

That could explain a lot in my case.