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Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 10th, 2020, 1:03 pm
by straps68
Sorry about your bad luck.
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 10th, 2020, 1:06 pm
by hako
Oh, this is a bummer.
If you care for an alternative to conventional treatment, try and look for an osteopath.
At least in the US they are trained physicians but have gone through quite some additional formation and they know pretty well how joints, muscles and fascia work together, especially in cases like yours.
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 10th, 2020, 1:39 pm
by Abarth
Get well my old friend.
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 10th, 2020, 1:52 pm
by bronzerai
Ouch, you just won the pain lottery.
Not only a slipped disk but femoral nerve entrapment to boot!
Might want to ask about a lumbar decompression brace and see if you have a pain and spine specialist that can do targeted cortisone shots to the spine unless that is what you meant by pain shots in the ED.
Get well
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 10th, 2020, 8:24 pm
by binbin
Ouch, no kidding.
Positive thoughts going your way. I hope you have a fast recovery.
I feel you on the "virtual" doctors appointments. I have one virtual appointment each week. I like to call it my parole officer checking in on me.
Get well soon!
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 12:54 am
by earloflondon
neckyzips wrote:so after all this hard work getting the new shop built, interior sheet rocked painted, lights up, floor done, benches in place, machines rebuilt de rusted, tuned up, broken bits replaced etc, i got the shop set up the way i think i want it. found a second hand large manual mill for an ongoing project i needed it for, things were going swimmingly! then this world pandemic hits and everyone goes crazy!
and as sometimes things go, i took a load of trash, mostly card board boxes to the dump, climbed in the back of the truck to get a scrap of a box i couldn't reach, bend down and bam! sharp pain down my lower back through my groin and exploding in my knee cap! i climb out of the truck, try to drive the old stick shift back home with one leg. the pain is amazing, making me sick to my stomach! end up having to go to the ER via an ambulance, cause there is no way i can sit up for the half hour car ride. some ct scans later, doc says i have a compressed disk that is pinching my femoral nerve. they send me home with advil, and a few shots of pain killers. no referral to a specialist, no pain meds etc.
after several "facetime" doctors appointments i finally get to talk to a specialist; well sort of via facetime... at least he gave me some pain meds and some anti inflammatory. prognoses is i guess it will heal itself... orders are 2 weeks flat on my back, then some pt, 3 months till im maybe 75% of normal rang of movement. no option of any sort of office visit or real help till all this virus stuff lifts.
anyway, just a heads up, i will get some things rearranged so i can stand up and work and get some stuff done.
Welcome to the oldies club man. I experienced the similar whilst my niece got a nervous breakdown and I had to grab her body and carry it a long way. Gradually I am getting worse and now it makes me jump while as sleep every now and then. I hope you'll recover soon mate. Just rest, the world isn't going anywhere
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Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 2:41 am
by leeyewfei
get well soon!!!
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 2:55 am
by tafari
sorry to hear this Joe, I’m fighting with the same problem since 2 month, hope you got well fast
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 7:09 am
by EBWing
TimemiT wrote: ↑April 10th, 2020, 12:38 pm
I think the "hanging upside down" advice refers to this ....
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Yes I have a buddy I shoot sporting clays with he is 70 now has back issues and swears by this hanging upside down contraption says it really helps with the pain. Uses it everyday or every other day I think.
Re: well Bugger!
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 7:54 am
by neckyzips
i have used those hang up machines before, its probably a great help to this.
thanks guys for all the well wishes, so sorry about the timing on this, its really irritating, for us both, as mentioned i am in the middle of several runs of stuff and am anxious about getting through them.