Ow bollocks

[hirez]

That was tediously careless.

In a fit of recently-massaged enthusiasm, I must have done something unfortunate to my lower back. Transition between the states of chairbound slump and pottering about is somewhat painful and that pottering is closer to a shambling junkie shuffle.

Bum. And yea even thrice bum.

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[girfan.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

Does this mean an evening of pain killers at home rather than pub?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Lord knows, ce moment. The drive home will be the test.

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Nice use of tags ;)

Hope the back gets better too!!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Randomness is a gift from listening to Robyn Hitchcock once too often.

So do I. This sports massage business generally unkinks my entire back and stops me walking in a clumpy and bloke-like manner.

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

If you need any NYR muscle salve shout, tis good stuff.

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

ah crap, hope you're feeling better soon!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm sure a couple of ales will fix it. Or I just won't care anymore.

[hazeii.livejournal.com]

I'm far too familiar with this problem, so you have my sympathy.

A couple of days intense pain, a couple of days tailing off, a couple of weeks moving about carefully; the mind has a way of forgetting the pain eventually (that's my mantra whenever it happens).

[bloodnok.livejournal.com]

Hie thee to either a physiotherapist or an osteopath. I have a back like a corkscrew; the latter did me great service when it first went many years ago, but recent experience with the former makes me believe that physio is The Way, The Truth, The Life. Earlier this year I spent three days in the most pain I ever wish to experience (I couldn't lie down to sleep for those days and spent the time standing in my living room alternately screaming and sobbing), far beyond the recent nasal destruction, when my lower back went. Several sessions with an NHS physio had me back in action in a few weeks.

This (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0959804927/qid=1130550490/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/202-9817728-1899846) may be of use. It was recommended to me by my physio, and contains the exercises that got me moving again.

Good luck with it. Folks that haven't experienced back pain have no idea how utterly miserable it can be.

[bloodnok.livejournal.com]

Hie thee to either a physiotherapist or an osteopath. I have a back like a corkscrew; the latter did me great service when it first went many years ago, but recent experience with the former makes me believe that physio is The Way, The Truth, The Life. Earlier this year I spent three days in the most pain I ever wish to experience (I couldn't lie down to sleep for those days and spent the time standing in my living room alternately screaming and sobbing), far beyond the recent nasal destruction, when my lower back went. Several sessions with an NHS physio had me back in action in a few weeks.

This (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0959804927/qid=1130550490/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/202-9817728-1899846) may be of use. It was recommended to me by my physio, and contains the exercises that got me moving again.

Good luck with it. Folks that haven't experienced back pain have no idea how utterly miserable it can be.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, unkinked back. One of those blissful things you don't realise is blissful until you lock up again.

I recommend you find a practitioner of McTimony chiropractic (although I gather there's been a schism in the chiro world and the McTimony bunch are now "manipulative therapists"). It's not full of crunch, clunk, crick like normal chiro. It feels like they're not doing anything, just gentle shifts and percussions - very uninvasive - but afterwards everything works again. No wrenching, no seeing stars when they straighten your neck etc, which always worried me.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Plus, now I come to think of it, my therapist also cured my sciatica.