Post by CkRtech on Apr 4, 2006 21:03:57 GMT -5
Hey all. Posted this on my blog on myspace, but copied it over here so a few things are explained:
Many of you know by now that I woke up with back pain around about last Wednesday (March 29th). While it was uncomfortable, I still went to work & figured it would take a few days to get back to normal. I woke up with pain in my back muscles. The day would go by, and by lunch it would have turned into soreness. This soreness would continue until the end of the day. Pain would still shoot through my back if i turned one direction or leaned my head forward or backward.
I could not finish a can of Dr. Pepper because you have throw your head all the way back to do it, and that would hurt a lot. Me w/o caffeine = not good.
Thursday, I woke up & the sequence repeated itself. Friday yielded the same thing. Saturday, I got a professional back massage. The girl worked out quite a few knots in my back (nothing new there), but the pain still remained. She said I would be sore Sunday morning & would need to do hot and cold treatments on my back Saturday night.
Ha....yeah. Sore. So I woke up Sunday & couldn't move. It took about 15 minutes to physically get out of bed & up on my feet. This was done with minimal use of my spine or arms. Not good. The soreness from the massage (while relaxing most of my back muscles), added more pain to my spine.
I saw a chiropractor Monday. They took X-rays, ran some tests, all that jazz. I thought that I had a pinched nerve or something.
....ha! Yeah right.
So the bottom line is this - somewhere between 5 to 20 years ago, I experienced whiplash. Seriously. My neck was permanently shifted slightly to the left, and the curve of the neck was compressed. My neck doesn't make the gentle curve that it should. He said that essentially it was all a volcano waiting to erupt from the time of the whiplash up until apparently last Wednesday. Well....it erupted.
There are calcium deposits along the vertebrae. This is what indicates that the problem occurred quite a long time ago.
This was kinda hard to accept, but I had the X-rays right in front of me when the doctor went over them. You could tell things were not right. He popped several parts of my neck, and that immediately eliminated soreness in some areas. It has to take time to heal, and there is definitely a lot more popping of bones to be done.
I have to go back in again on Wednesday morning and again on Friday morning. I don't expect this to be a major ordeal to have to go through...nevertheless, it should be life-changing. General comfort, breathing, allergies, and asthma (among other things) may improve. I look forward to that.
Many of you know by now that I woke up with back pain around about last Wednesday (March 29th). While it was uncomfortable, I still went to work & figured it would take a few days to get back to normal. I woke up with pain in my back muscles. The day would go by, and by lunch it would have turned into soreness. This soreness would continue until the end of the day. Pain would still shoot through my back if i turned one direction or leaned my head forward or backward.
I could not finish a can of Dr. Pepper because you have throw your head all the way back to do it, and that would hurt a lot. Me w/o caffeine = not good.
Thursday, I woke up & the sequence repeated itself. Friday yielded the same thing. Saturday, I got a professional back massage. The girl worked out quite a few knots in my back (nothing new there), but the pain still remained. She said I would be sore Sunday morning & would need to do hot and cold treatments on my back Saturday night.
Ha....yeah. Sore. So I woke up Sunday & couldn't move. It took about 15 minutes to physically get out of bed & up on my feet. This was done with minimal use of my spine or arms. Not good. The soreness from the massage (while relaxing most of my back muscles), added more pain to my spine.
I saw a chiropractor Monday. They took X-rays, ran some tests, all that jazz. I thought that I had a pinched nerve or something.
....ha! Yeah right.
So the bottom line is this - somewhere between 5 to 20 years ago, I experienced whiplash. Seriously. My neck was permanently shifted slightly to the left, and the curve of the neck was compressed. My neck doesn't make the gentle curve that it should. He said that essentially it was all a volcano waiting to erupt from the time of the whiplash up until apparently last Wednesday. Well....it erupted.
There are calcium deposits along the vertebrae. This is what indicates that the problem occurred quite a long time ago.
This was kinda hard to accept, but I had the X-rays right in front of me when the doctor went over them. You could tell things were not right. He popped several parts of my neck, and that immediately eliminated soreness in some areas. It has to take time to heal, and there is definitely a lot more popping of bones to be done.
I have to go back in again on Wednesday morning and again on Friday morning. I don't expect this to be a major ordeal to have to go through...nevertheless, it should be life-changing. General comfort, breathing, allergies, and asthma (among other things) may improve. I look forward to that.