The Whining thread

Peaches said:
I like MRI's, at least if they're open ones. I had one done on my knee a while back. Such a good excuse to lay still and not have anything to do for an hour, with plenty of white noise. Nap time!!!
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I fell asleep inside an MRI once. When the operator needed me to turn my head, he had to come out and wake me up. :shock:
 
Don't mean to compare pain, Peaches....or minimize your own. It's just making me a really crabby person to be around (just ask my kids), and very frustrating that I can't really exercise or practice for the time being. And all I keep thinking of is the fact that my mother has had 3 back/neck surgeries and one went really bad...to the point where she was sorry she ever let the surgeons touch her. I think I'm going to up my Advil intake from 2 to 3 for the weekend.

This leads me to the possibility of filing a claim against the person who caused the accident I was in...but I really would just like my "body" back.
 
mamboqueen said:
Don't mean to compare pain, Peaches....or minimize your own. It's just making me a really crabby person to be around (just ask my kids), and very frustrating that I can't really exercise or practice for the time being. And all I keep thinking of is the fact that my mother has had 3 back/neck surgeries and one went really bad...to the point where she was sorry she ever let the surgeons touch her.
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My dad has had about six back surgeries, and none of them have ever helped all that much. It seems to me that back and neck injuries are an area that is wide open for some serious research.
 
cornutt said:
My dad has had about six back surgeries, and none of them have ever helped all that much. It seems to me that back and neck injuries are an area that is wide open for some serious research.
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Yeah...and the cost is exhorbitant. Her second (botched) surgery was $25K just for the surgeon....paid for by medicare. But, can you imagine all that money spent and you're *worse* off??? The most recent one she had done they went through the neck/throat rather than the back, and it was better...although she is probably only back to 50% of what she was. It's really a shame because my mother is a very active person. It's as mentally debilitating as physically.
 
cornutt said:
My dad has had about six back surgeries, and none of them have ever helped all that much. It seems to me that back and neck injuries are an area that is wide open for some serious research.
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OTOH, my mother had neck surgery about 10 years ago, and it was a god-send for her. She had bulging discs in her neck, went to p.t., and they ended up shattering/crushing 2 of her vertebrae (sp? Why can't I spell this morning? GRRR!) She'd gotten steadily worse for about a year before the crushing incident--going from not liking to use her left arm, to not being able to use it, to just kind of carrying her left arm around with her right (like a sling), to not being able to stand up straight. It was odd, b/c it happened gradually and we never really realized how bad it had gotten. Then p.t., and they vertebrae shattered, and she was in unbearable, constant pain.

They took a bone graft from her hip, and did something bone-graft-y with it (they went in through the front/neck/throat), put a titanium plate in her neck, and...voila. The recovery has taken a long time (years, really), and there are still some things she has to be careful with (bobsledding is BAD!), but she has her life back.

Even if she can't look up at all. When we went to Italy, about 3 years after the surgery, she souldn't see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. So she stood very rigidly, and my Dad would hold her under her arms and lower her back/down...kind of like a hand truck...and then walk around in a circle so she could see the ceiling. Odd, but cute, and it worked.
 
Wow - glad your mother has had success with her surgery. I'll have to tell mine that there is hope. Bobsledding? *oy* the visual on that one! My mother also has the titanium rods and told me that every now and again she can feel them.

Okay. One more hour to Advil time.
 
mamboqueen said:
Wow - glad your mother has had success with her surgery. I'll have to tell mine that there is hope. Bobsledding? *oy* the visual on that one! My mother also has the titanium rods and told me that every now and again she can feel them.

Okay. One more hour to Advil time.
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Yeah, bobsledding. There are huge frickin' signs that say if you have spinal problems you shouldn't ride it. It's obvious! But, she sat out one year, and was very jealous b/c the rest of us had so much fun. So, the next year she refused to sit out. She signed the release form anyway, and went anyway. With tears streaming down her face from fear (kind of funny, actually). She was fine for most of it, but there's one turn that's really sharp and harsh. Everyone, both times, ends up getting their heads slammed against the side of the bobsled on this turn. Doesn't generally hurt, b/c of the helmets, but for her neck it was bad. She was in a lot of pain for the next several days...not that it stopped her from tobogganning (sp?) or skiing (cross country, at least). *sigh*
 
wow. terrible drag. so sorry to hear about the back pain, peach & mq...

wish there were a magic pill for things like this.

i know there are certain types of therapeutic yoga (not all kinds) that some people swear by for having helped them overcome chronic back pain... have either of you explored that avenue?

fwiw, regular hatha yoga at your local Y probly does not fall into this category.
 
I honestly can't imagine doing yoga right now. In fact, I've had people tell me they developed back problems *after* starting yoga. What's going on now is more acute than what I've been dealing with over the past 6 or so months, so I need to wait until the severity subsides a bit before contemplating even physical therapy (well, save for electro stim and massage, I'm sure I could handle those). I can't even hold a phone between my ear and shoulder at the moment. Arrrrgh!

I think there *are* magic pills...but only for the pain. I honestly don't like taking anything that is going to mask the pain and I end up making things worse because I do things I shouldn't be doing because the pain has "abated".

I'll get through it. Just frustrated more than anything.
 
mamboqueen said:
I honestly can't imagine doing yoga right now. In fact, I've had people tell me they developed back problems *after* starting yoga.
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yes, no doubt, absolutely. that's what i mean about only specific kinds of yoga. there are therapeutic yoga practitioners, and anusara yoga is based on gently developing proper alignment. those are the only types i'd recommend for someone with acute pain or injury.

What's going on now is more acute than what I've been dealing with over the past 6 or so months, so I need to wait until the severity subsides a bit before contemplating even physical therapy (well, save for electro stim and massage, I'm sure I could handle those). I can't even hold a phone between my ear and shoulder at the moment. Arrrrgh!
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oh, my goodness, yes... rest, and get the inflammation down.

I think there *are* magic pills...but only for the pain. I honestly don't like taking anything that is going to mask the pain and I end up making things worse because I do things I shouldn't be doing because the pain has "abated".
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i would feel the same way.

do you know anyone with one of those fancy hydrotherapy hot tubs with all the air-jet nozzles humming everywhere against your body?

my most persistent fantasy... talk about something i'd buy if i won the lottery!
:)
 
samina said:
do you know anyone with one of those fancy hydrotherapy hot tubs with all the air-jet nozzles humming everywhere against your body?

my most persistent fantasy... talk about something i'd buy if i won the lottery!
:)
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Hmm...I think I read that the new James Bond actor has one of those. Let me ring him and see if he'll oblige ;). Geez...probably not a good thing that my son has that poster hanging on his wall. *LOL*
 
mamboqueen said:
Geez...probably not a good thing that my son has that poster hanging on his wall. *LOL*
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probly depends WHY it's hanging there... LOL

i so am craving one of those tubs today. have been wanting one for years...

they should be doled out free to dancers, anyway...
 
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