"Shaun Rimmer" <
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> Huw Pritchard <
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> > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:20:37 +0000, Shaun Rimmer did issue forth:
> >
> > > Heheheheh - I wish, prolly woulda done me more good than those fecking uselarse pills.
> >
> > Did the Doc have anything worthwhile to say about it?
>
> No, not really. He did the prodding, messing about and asking questions stuff, then said "It's not
> *skeletal, you haven't got a slipped disc, it's not *cartilaginous, you have no *spinal alignment
> problems, and it's not *neural". *(I had to provide him with the words and phrases (even though
> he'd covered most of it already with the prompted 'skeletal'), he kept saying "It's not uuhhmm
> ahhh, to do with errrmmm", heh...).
>
> He then went on to say it was the ligaments that run vertically up the outside of the spine
> between vertebrae, and that even though I didn't
recall
> it, that it would be trauma related, but a delayed reaction, as in 'whiplash'. He prescribed me
> stronger painkillers, told me to go swimming and partake of gentle walking exercise. Also, to keep
> stretching and
flexing
> it within my pain threshold limitations.
>
> I'm not convinced, as the pain does not increase if I move in a way that stretches the spine
> (hence stretching the ligaments, only if it is compressed directly, which would not affect
> 'tensile' ligaments. It feels more like inflammation around a nerve bundle or some-such to me, but
> I'm only a layman trying to implement logic, so I'm not banking on that,
either.
>
> The pills made me high as a kite very quickly, and only started to ease
the
> pain slightly after some time. They made me very nauseous (synthetic chemical, but molecularly an
> opiate), and after a few hours later, I
vomited
> heavily. By last night, my back was hurting quite a lot, and the only
effect
> of the pills by then, was to reduce my ability to ignore pain/made me
> psychologically and emotionally weaker in regard to it. I got a lift into work from Kath's this
> morning, because there was no way I could have
handled
> the 4 mile constant uphill part of the 6 mile ride in.
>
> I have a weekend away coming up, after that, if the situation has not improved, I'll be doing
> something else about it for sure. I have never _felt_ so debilitated in my life, not even when I
> had my leg smashed up
(at
> least I could get around on crutches without excessive pain, and often walked 7 or 8 miles on
> them, and even climbed a little). I hate this, and really feel for the people who have much more
> severe, and regularly recurring back problems.
>
> Thanks for asking Huw, sorry for going on so much!
>
> ',;~}
>
> Shaun aRe
>
My back problem finally subsided after using the traction device the orthopedic surgeon gave me. But
it took time. The family practice doc I went to initially was no help, gave me some Vicodin which
made me sick to my stomach too and jittery. I've never felt pain like that and nothing would touch
it except beer. No kidding! I guess it relaxed the muscles that were pinching the nerve and
disconected the signals to my brain. Just want to say I feel for you Bro and hope you find a quick
resolution to your back problem.
Mike
