Injured back

[toxicz28]

I do not like spilling my personal stuff on internet but do not want anybody else to go through the pain if they can help it. As annoying as it is now remember it can be worse.

It's alot easier on the net, more anonymous.

Get drunk, hire a hooker and when you wake up the fear of having AIDS will take your mind of your back pain. ONLY KIDDING!!!!

That's a good one. All kidding aside. In most cases, surgery is a choice. I had the choice for mine. The choice was "live with the pain, or take the chance that it will work" I did not want to deal with the pain, or be on meds forever. And I am sure glad I had it done. Now mind you I was dealing with the pain for 9 months before they cut me, so it wasn't a rushed decision. I say, don't rush into anything, get surgery as a last resort, and feel better.

[Jim Nilsen]

Oct. 14th 1974, fell out of a tree and crushed L2 vertabre. Orthopedic doctor and physical therapy and determination and I was riding my 10spd bike in 6 mo. and had pain for the next 5 yrs that I finally learned to tolerate and it finally stopped nagging me 10 yrs later. If I do something stupid it will remind me but it is ok.

1993 while going to get a new job I woke up and had numbness in both arms and couldn't move my kneck. I went to my brothers Chiropracter and he xrayed me to make sure it wasn't something else he would need to send me for an MRI for and he started to adjust me. By that afternoon when I had to go to the interview I could at least move enough to not look like I wasn't crippled. By the 3rd day when I had to go to my physical I was moving and feeling more than well enough to pass. I went for 2 yrs and learned how to exersice for my subluxation that was forming in my neck and back.

Now I exercise and keep myself from doing stupid lifting tricks and I do just fine. I believe in both kinds of doctors and would recommend that for the initial onset of a back injury to see an orthopedic doc to make sure. The Wife got in an accident and we went to the chiro and it made it worse and the regular doctor gave her meds and rest and then some therapy and it was much better.

Everyone reacts differently to treatment of different types and it is something to not experiment with and no 2 docs are the same even in the same field of medicine. I always question them about their success rate about treating injuries like mine and ask them if they have a boat? I always am a bit shy of a doctor that has a boat ever since I knew a dentist that had one and would recommend everything to be done just so he could pay for it. Thats why they call those teeth you have "wisdom teeth" if you have them removed and they haven't ever bothered you then your dentist was a lot wiser than you!!! and probably had a boat.

Jim Nilsen