#herniated discs

[kittytriscuit]

[leftabit-leftabit]

In absolute agony. Want to pull my spine out me arse and crack it like a whip 😫😭🦴🤠

[newhologram]

How I sleep with spinal pain (cervical instability/osteoarthritis/herniated discs/scoliosis)

[heartofthra]

my case regarding my back injury is coming to a close and for the past few months i’ve had to come to terms with the fact that i’m going to be disabled for life and that’s been such a hard process for me, but i’m getting there. i had to change my career path and i’m going to have permanent restrictions but that’s ok! i’m still me, i’m not lesser than i was before. my pain is never going away, my nerve damage/pain is always going to be there, i have degenerative disc disease and my back is always going to be like this, and i have to accept that. my limp and my cane are a part of me and thats ok. i’m disabled and i’m still me.

[weeebabe]

Left to right or bottom to top: healthy disc, worst looking disc, meh looking disc.

MRI revealed two herniated discs. Sounds like we’re going to try a cervical epidural and some physical therapy but eventually I’m going to need a spinal fusion.

Had my first PT today and it wasn’t super promising. I just want to be able to get back to work. I’m getting closer, but still pretty far away.

6 more weeks of approved leave. I feel confident I can get back to work. I guess, if not, I’ll figure it out.

Ugh.

Husband has us eating for our macros. I’m trying. It’s hard. I’m suffering from insomnia and I’m just generally exhausted.

[brightlotusmoon]

AAAAAAAAAHH evil headache and neck pain is evil

O hey pharmacist once told me that I could take like five times my little prescription dose of codeine and be fine. Not going to do that but it's good to know that I could if desperately needed.

Okay maybe twice the dose right now because AAAAAAAAAAAAA

Fucking fibromyalgia and palsy and slipped discs and arthritis and TMJ and sinus migraine and why can't I stab my face to kill the pain AAAAA.

BRB medicating.

[clutchwokeup]

what's that medieval torture device that stretches out your limbs and torso? God that sounds so refreshing right now

[dformedkonfetti-blog]

This is who I am

I can remember being very young as in less than 8 even when I realized that pain was the only constant in my young life. I didn’t focus on it unless it was a fabulous flare up day and then I didn’t want out of my bed, much less go to school. There never were tests more than normal things doctors ask a parent and a child. How could I tell my peds doc I was broken and it would all be present by the end of my shortened life. The pain was so great that not even 8 ibs or tylenol did anything. . . nothing helped. In 2001 at the age of 20 I woke up one day and that pain changed to a more centered middle back and it had names. Degenerative Disc Disease, Severe OsteoArthritis, and 3 herniated discs. It wasn’t until recently that I began to research what it was to be in pain but not a broken bone type but an all over pain that never ceases. Not even one moment is free of pain of some sort. I have not worked since I was 24. When I finally became able to be insured it was like I tripped and fell all the way down a mountain of epic proportions. I have a parking permit, I am riddled with Glaucoma, and so many more things. Too many to list and not have you lost by the time I am done. I am disabled by Government standards. I am terminally ill. I am going blind. Most of all I feel alone. So I am reaching out. If you are a human with feelings and love in your heart and know pain regardless of situation or severity or where it is please let me know you exist. I know you are out there.  One spoon at a time.