BACK to my back pain

3:18 AM 6/6/2007

      A new chiropractor?  Sorta ... same office ... new fellow.  The chiropractor wants to move his young family nearby his relatives in Pennsylvania (health problems in some older people there in his family) ... I WILL HATE TO SEE HIM GO.  He is just an excellent chiropractor & so caring & so nice!
    However, the new person is really nice, too ... & did my treatment yesterday.  I was impressed with his skill.  I know he has my office records, but I told  him my history of my back ... there are 6 problem areas, some "bare" vertebrae, some injuries back in the 70's & 80's, lots of arthritis (which I found out can be triggered by injuries).
    I mentioned that I am getting the facets at the Pain Clinic, but, found out thru experimenting that I also need the chiropractic at least once a week.  Right now, I need for the mid-upper back to stay adjusted ... otherwise it gets horribly tight & painful.  We are making progress there ,,,  after I had not been going hardly at all since Christmas, that area of my back just got to be impossible ... I need to be faithful in at least weekly adjustments, mostly between my shoulderblades & thru my lower ribs.

1:21 AM 6/18/2007
    AWAKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AGAIN ... BACK PAIN AGAIN!   This time it is worst in my lower ribs.  In trying to loosen it up, I got some "clunks", like shifting bones in my back there, but very little loosening.  I took some aspirins & made a gin drink.
     I had a fairly active day ... no heavy work, tho.  I potted plants, etc ... washed dishes, vac'd the rugs ... watched T.V. ... had some company.

 

3:57 AM 6/8/2007

    OKAY ... after my three asprins a few hours ago, I just took two extra strength acetominephen ... & a little more gin.  I just have to get back to sleep; my back is really bothering me.  Part of it may be due to emotional stress ... bills & the loss of my next to last goose.  The one that is left is calling for her ... breaks my heart.

12:46 PM 6/11/2007
    DAMN ... is it tension over my finances ... the extra pain that has developed in my "good" knee ... or WHAT?
     I have done nothing physical so far today ... reasonably active ... some time at the computer ... I AM IN ABSOLUTE MISERY!  I took some asprins ... even a little gin ... my upper/mid back has terrible pain & discomfort.

2:27 AM 6/12/2007
    My upper back, between my shoulder blades, & down ... esp. my lower ribs, esp the ones on the left ... are in real pain.  Not discomfort ... not ache ... REAL PAIN.  Took some aspirin, acetominophen, some gin ... should I sit up for a while yet, exercise, or just go back to bed?

3:26 AM 6/12/2007
   Still at the computer ... still hurt ... MORE GIN!

4:06 PM 7/20/2007
   I've been out of gin for quite a while ... my back is really tightened up, partly due to some stresses in my life.  Having just resolved my finanacial emergency ... I am headed out to go get some gin to relax my back.
   Several days ago ... I had the lumbar facets in my lower back.  My back had begun hurting at a level that I cannot remember for how long it had been that bad.
   Almost immediately, there was relief ... but, my upper back pain was still terrible ... tho ... the level came down somewhat.
    I am to go back in two weeks for the facets in my mid-back ... but, because of my financial condition ... I had to postpone that another week until my Social Security check comes ... probably can't change it back now.