A World of Hurt

If you have never had back pain, you may think it is a simple thing.Your back hurts and you lay down on a heating pad. But in my case it’s really complex, because I have a pinched nerve that causes wandering pain far from the original site. In other words, many things hurt but my back isn’t one of them. More specifically, my hip, knee, groin, IT band. But not my back, where nothing hurts. Look up radiculopathy.

How did I get this? I bent down to pick up my dog’s poop. I do this multiple times a day, but this time I heard something pop in my left waist.

This isn’t easily seen by a CT or an MRI. All they can do is rule out things. The neurosurgeon who told me I didn’t need surgery told the truth. This will heal. It is already healing. My general fitness helps.

But healing is hard to believe in when you have constant pain and a lot of conditions that make it very difficult. to take advantage of what my friends tell me are the good drugs. Believe me, I tried the opiates. \

They are actually bad drugs, and many people can’t take them, because the side effects become intolerable, and just seem to make things worse. This is a story of taking myself off all the drugs (ex Tylenol) and trusting my body to heal itself.

After trying Percocet for a week, I had to give it up because I couldn’t poop and after taking the laxative I needed in order to correct that little issue I experienced such exhaustion from spending a night on the Toto that I have taken days to recover.