you have preferred deities for me to pray to in your honour?

Maybe a doctor's note will get you into a later class?

"It's the abstract I deal in; software, and donuts." MohammedNiyalSayeed

docs can do things.  good luck.  that just sucks.

good vibes...


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I was in a pretty bad car accident a few years ago and was told I would have back issues for the rest of my life, but I didn't realize that meant 16 straight hours of pain...though I have found that the pain can make me do almost anything...like drive for several hours in the middle of the night to try to get to a place with a better mattress (long story), though it did seem like the car drive alleviated some of the pain.

Mostly, I'd just pace around as much as possible, as sitting or standing still just makes me focus on the pain even more. It's pain so bad that I have vomited...on several occasions because of it..I can't say I've experienced pain to such an extent in any other capacity, so it's not as if I'd normally vomit when in pain.

The other problem I had was financial, as it would mean seeing a chiropractor, 3+ days a week, for the rest of my life. $30 a visit and, well...you do the math...it's a ridiculous sum and I really hoped that I could simply find some kind of wonder pill for it all.

On my last doctors visit, I was told to purchase this in the largest size possible, roll every night on my back, or as often as possible, and take as long as necessary to make my entire back feel as if I could roll over it with ease.

I have done this every day since (though the exception was last night) and, until today, I have had no pain whatsoever..or at least none to the extent that I was in before.

It's not as fancy as the TENS unit, I suppose, but it has made more difference than exercise, or overdosing on pain meds ever did for me. It is a rather overpriced piece of plastic, but it is a much smaller sum than the $250,000+ I'd be paying a chiropractor.

Basically, if you haven't already, you should try it. I scoffed at it at first, but it does seriously work.

I hope you have some neighbors or something that can pop in and keep an eye on you.  I don't want to find that on Day 27, you've been laying on the floor in the bathroom in a pool of urine starving to death.  This isn't how I had pictured it!

Good luck and I hope you find a good doctor with some good meds and therapy.

In my case, I'm now convinced that stress was a pretty big of the picture. Not the whole picture, of course. But the absolute worst thing anybody could say to me when I was in agony was "relax, you're just stressing yourself."  That kind of thing makes you so stressed you could commit murder.

But I do hope that if their are any (non-chemical) stress reducers available (music, bed rest, meditation, what-the-fuck-do-I-know, etc)that you'll use them.

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My back started spasming the other night when I laid down - which hasn't happened since I was over 300 pounds; fortunately some muscle relaxers and massage kept it from locking up.


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