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.

 

The State of Misery

12:38 PM 5/7/2007

     My facets (injections) last week were in my upper back.  That

had started torturing me more so than the usual problem zone in my

lower back.  I had made the decision that I'd better start going

back to the chiropractor on a weekly basis; my upper back has been

so tight & sore. Then, I felt so great after the injections & the

chiropractor that I thought maybe I won't have to go back for the

injections in my lower back ... also might be able to go every

OTHER week to the chiropractor.  NO SOONER DID I HAVE THAT

THOUGHT THAN MY UPPER BACK BEGAN TO FEEL TIGHT & VERY

SORE ... NOW .... today, my lower back is really hurting.  All that

I did to earn that was to stand at the cupboard making up a big

batch of onion cookies.  I still have to put them on trays & freeze

the chopped onion/carrot/chives mixture.

 

2:57 AM 5/8/20072:57 AM 5/8/2007

     Not sure which part of my back hurts the worst.  I think it is

the lower back hurting so much that the pain is extending upward? 

I'm glad that, learning from past scheduling of injections, I did

insist upon the second set in the lower back soon after the ones in

the upper back.

     Just read about a new technique that came out of a college

business competition. I put the link to the information on my main

Journal.

RejuvaDisc

 

Click here: Back pain treatment wins Wharton's business plan competition - Apr. 25, 2007

 

10:17 AM 5/11/2007
     Yesterday, I had errands to do in town ... just headed towards

home, thinking how miserable my upper back felt.  It was so stiff &

painful between my shoulder blades ... that got me to thinking about

the chiropractor.  EVEN THO I'D CHECKED IN THE MORNING AS

TO WHAT TIME MY APPOINTMENT WAS, I ENDED UP GETTING

SO BUSY THAT I FORGOT COMPLETELY. 
    My appointment had been for 3 pm; now, it was 4:30!  Thank

Heavens, he was able to take me in!  He really had to work on that

area.  This morning, it does feel so much better.

 

3:50 AM 5/21/2007

    Here I am, up in the middle of the night because my back hurts.

 It helps to get up, move around, take some aspirins ... then, I

have to have some chicken soup or something to make sure that I

don't take them on an empty stomach.  A little time sitting up (like

at the computer) also helps.  Now, I'm going back to bed to try to

find a comfortable spot so I can sleep?

 

6:54 AM 5/30/2007

    I awoke at dawn this morning, my lower back hurt so much that

I couldn't get it loosened with stretching exercises.  I had a hot

milk/maple syrup/gin drink ... sat at the computer ... it is feeling a

bit better.  Some aspirins ... then lay around a bit more ...
    Yesterday, I had it scheduled to do a little weed-whacking ... it

tried to rain ... I talked myself into waiting until today.  My

weekend housecleaning project & activities with my daughter had

sorta ruined my back anyways ... needed a bit more "rest".

 

5:09 AM 6/5/2007

      I've spent several hours trying to exercise my spine to get it

to quit hurting.  It is not so much a sharp pain as a gripping,

sickening discomfort with the pain level of at least an 8.
      This is mostly in the small of my back, involving my hip area &

 

lower ribs.  My vertebrae would clunk as I tried various movements

to loosen up my back.  Now, it is not as bad.  I took some aspirin &

some acetaminophen ... & another gin & milk.  MAYBE I CAN GET

BACK TO SLEEP ... FINALLY?

       When I talk to my doctor, I want to remember to be able to

tell him around the first of June is when I started having bouts of

pain again. I don't have an appointment at the Pain Clinic until next

month.

     My "good" knee: the cortisone/steroid shot ... is that wearing

off, too?  Usually, unless I have a misstep, there is no pain there,

just an awful tiredness & tenderness if I've been at all active.  In

a week, I have an appointment with that doctor.

 

THE CHIROPRACTOR: I've gone back to going there every week again.  It seems to be helping, especially the terrible tightness & discomfort in my upper back where I had the whip-lash problem.  That is mostly between my shoulder blades, sometimes in my lower ribs, too.  Today, I have an appointment there.

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