Over the winter I combated several injuries. One due to working out to hard at a really high weight, I knew I was doing it (or rather over-doing it) but I couldn't stop myself, lol. Another from a farm-related accident, oh well, it happens. And yet one more that just defied explaination. How exactly you can dislocate your elbow IN YOUR SLEEP is kind of beyond me, but I did it... then again a couple years ago I sprained my ankle just by rolling it in bed... yeah, for some people the one place they can feel is safe is in bed... lol, not me. And don't get any funny ideas about how it happened either, the injuries never happen during 'that'. LOL
Everything is much better now except for ONE. I still have a horrible case of psciatica (think I spelled that right, not sure). OH man it is bad. I just can't get rid of it. I don't really know how. I've read so many articles. They all seem to have a different approach to it, but they all agree on one thing... it takes TIME. UGH
It's really hard to exercise with this problem. Now some articles say exercise is good for it even if it hurts... but the nagging fear that it could do more damage (read above where I said I knew I was doing the wrong thing back at the beginning but couldn't stop myself) I'm afraid that I'll make the problem worse instead of better.
I'm no real stranger to long-term injury. A few years ago I had a horrible bout with a heal spur. It took months for it to go away and the pain was horrible. The difference was I KNEW what a heal spur was, what created it, and even how it happened, so I was able to understand the healing process.
I don't really understand psciatica. I have little clues and ideas about it, but I am not completely sure what exactly causes it, how it heals, how long it will take, or most of all, what I did exactly to bring it on.
I've always had a bad back (mostly due to heavy weight problems) and I've always worked hard to makesure I didn't do 'stupid' things to throw it out, but I've never had THIS problem before. Before if I threw my back out, I knew how to rest, treat it, even if it meant going to the doctor for pills, it would get better and I'd be on my way again. This pain is weird, it isn't as incapacitating as throwing out your back. I can still move around, do all my normal things... just accompanied by a lot of pain. I think it's worse really though. I mean while throwing out your back leaves you laid up for days, even weeks, this just nags at you for months on end.
If anyone has ever had psciatica (please excuse the misspelling if it's not right, lol, it's a funky word). Let me know what you did, or didn't do, lol. And if it got better for you.
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