#herniated disk

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Degenerative Disk Diseases – The Basics

This article gives an overview of the different types of degenerative disk disease, what it feels like, how it might be caused, and how it is diagnosed...

What Is Degenerative Disk Disease?

Degenerative disk disease isn’t a disease. It’s the name for what happens when your spinal disks begin to wear down. Learn more about treatm

"Degenerative disk disease ... isn’t actually a disease, but rather, it’s a condition that occurs when your spinal disks wear down. Spinal disks are rubbery cushions between your vertebrae (bones in your spinal column). They act as shock absorbers and help you move, bend and twist comfortably. Everyone’s spinal disks degenerate over time — it’s a natural part of aging.

When the cushions wear away, the bones can start to rub together. This contact can cause pain and other problems, like: • Adult scoliosis, where your spine curves • Herniated disk, also called a bulged, slipped or ruptured disk • Spinal stenosis, when the space in your spinal canal narrows • Spondylolisthesis, when vertebrae move in and out of place"

[lifewithchronicpain]

I hurt

[sevdrag]

me: hey google why does my back and hips hurt like hell when I wash dishes in the sink what am I doing wrong

internet: blah blah blah if you have a lumbar spine misalignment it can be triggered by the kind of posture you use when washing dishes or loading a dishwasher

me: …..god damnit

[lifewithchronicpain-original]

Tried to go to bed sometime around 11p-midnight and ended up tossing and turning for hours. Last clock check was past 4am. Now I’m awake at 1pm and I can’t stop crying. I never believed my back pain would truly go away, but finally hearing it from a doctor, this is just the nail in the coffin that a small part of me hoped I wouldn’t have to bury. I’m not like thinking anything harmful, I’m just letting myself grieve.

[alice-wonder-woman]

I totally envy the easy life of people who doesn't have to deal everyday with back pain

Please, value your life for the ones who can't even walk for weeks.

[itfuckinghurtslike]

It hurts like a thousand sunburns combined with the horrible pain that comes when your leg goes to sleep and is just waking back up. At the same time. Occasionally, sharp shooting pain joins in the fun. This is all down my shoulder, upper back and in my neck.

Anonymous with Cervical Radiculopathy (Caused By A Herniated Disk)

[lifewithchronicpain]

I told my mom about the wheelchair and I think part of her wasn’t thrilled, but she couldn’t argue against it and didn’t try to, thankfully. When my back is spasmimg in ways that make walking upright impossible for days and I have to sometimes be self reliant by choice and necessity, a wheelchair was the logical choice.

[lifewithchronicpain-original]

Twice now, I’ve been told by each my mom and older sister they don’t want to go out only to have me cut things short on them. Which, believe me, I get. I don’t want to piss everyone off by ending things early. If I don’t think I can handle an outing I shouldn’t go. It may be unfair, but it’s not the fault of my family to want to go out. It’s just the shitty unfairness of life and lack of strong enough opioids.

So yesterday we went to my aunt’s house where she was a pool just for the afternoon. I felt I could handle it so I agreed. Then my cousin comes home from shopping and is like “we got tacos for everyone, taco Tuesday!” and my mom and sisters were all like, “yeah, let’s stay!” I wasn’t even fucking asked. So I get lectures on not ruining the fun, and they turn around and extend the trip on me, extending my pain. And for a food that is a major trigger too. When my mom realized she’d fucked up she was like we can just go. “And ruin what they’re already looking forward to? It’s too late” thinking in my head I’ll be read as the asshole for ruining taco fucking tuesday.

Well every cloud has its silver lining. As I’m struggling with my back pain and increasing fibro aches my sister told me to go the garage to smoke up with a family friend who lives at the house but I don’t know very well. He’s got a bunch of grown pot, and holy fuck that shit got me stone enough I didn’t feel my back pain for an hour. I also got to listen to the new tool album as I got really fucking stoned. That thc was off the charts. I was able to tolerate staying until coffee and dessert was done.

Also as expected I woke up early to throw up, because the spices in the meat be like that for me. And now I have a bud I got to take home to help me out and hopefully go back to sleep. It’s 5:37am and I’ve been up for like an hour. I just want to sleep.