and it hurts like shit! I can't turn my head left or right without almost passing out from pain, I can't rotate my spine and I can't even lift my legs high enough to get in the over bath shower, so I stink. No I reckon I can cure that with a strip wash.
I'll be seeing the chiropractor in about 5 hours, she'll un knot me for sure.
But I'm not drinking! Seriously, when my back went into spasm it was a great excuse to drink through the pain and take the benzodiazepam that I'd hoarded.
I'll be seeing the doctor next week so i'll discuss pain relief with him too. (no codiene, no diazepam, no cocodamol - for me they are drinks in a pill) - along with other issues which may be related to the back troubles - or may be related to years of abusive drinking. This one is worrying me. I got the 40 over 40 problem (40% of UK men over 40 suffer from ED at some point)
Sitting is painful, standing is worse and lying down is worst of all. Slept in 2 hour bursts last night.
at least my hands and arms and eyes still work so I can still be productive. This is the worst part of living alone for me, you got to sort yourself out all the time, no-one to take you to the quacks, no-one to help you out. Mind you no-one can hear you cuss and swear either.
Not got much to do at work and way too much time to do it in again - wish the work load would level out so I'm not working my nuts off for two days then scratching for work for three.
Oh what a moan. Thanks for listening.
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Hey Bill hang in there. What kind of work do you do? I've been rehabing my torn hamstring for about 10 weeks now. I took half of a week off (construction work, no rest for the wicked lol) Just now being able to walk normally. I stepped on a nail with the other foot about 4 weeks about and was hobbling with both. I hope my 50's go a little smoother. Don't drink and don't die.
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Hey Bill, I can certainly understand and pretineer feel your pain and discomfort right thru the internet. A motorcycle accident back in 97' left me with several areas on my body that give me trouble from time to time. It all depends on what I do or dont do that determines my amount of pain on any given day. Im a campground owner/operator with no employee's except me, so the work load is all mine and thats okay with me. Just that there are some days I have a tendency to over do it. Then a car accident this last spring left me with some more injuries. I have a chiropractor who is uhhhh considered a 'bone crusher' chiro. He is very good and has helped me alot, but couldnt on this car accident. I needed physical therapy and did go for several weeks. It all helped, but I needed to do some of the exercises at home on my own and finding time to do that was difficult. Anyhow, for any discomfort or pain that I have today I use a heating pad. ( only 20 minutes at a time, cuz any longer brings the blood vessels to the surface of the skin and actually causes more pain ) and I use otc motrin to help keep muscles in tact. Just a couple suggestions that might help you too ! I do hope you can get some relief from your pain. I know it hurts.
I have to remember that pain is inevitable .. misery is optional.
Officially I'm a Relationship Manager in the mobile phone industry. What this involves is managing the installation and upgrade of mobile phone base stations on BT premises, managing a team of surveyors and managing the relationship between the company I work for (BT) and the company that builds the infrastructure. I cover all of North England and all of Scotland (about 2000 buildings), so i travel a fair bit when the work is on. when i'm not travelling, I'm in my office at home, resource planning, technical management, that sort of stuff.
I might be getting high towers work later this year, which I'm looking forward to, providing I don't have to climb. I'm ok on ladders and scaffold and elevating platforms, but I'm probably not fit enough to deal with open steel lattice towers, though I would like to take a trip up one of the big towers, just the once. I'm pretty sure that I'd fail the medical for a climbers course anyway. The nature of the job tends to be in fits and starts. i can do a couple thousand miles in one month and not see the office for days on end, then the next month never leave the office.
It is without doubt the most rewarding and challenging job I've ever had and I've been doing it for nearly 9 years now. The content of the job evolves over the years. 9 years ago there were 20 of us now there are 5 of us. Terms and conditions are without parallel - final salary pension for the past 30 years and now a money pruchase scheme for up to another 15, 33 days holiday plus another 8 bank and public holidays, very little weekend working, a 36 hours week, company provided car (with a limited choice of models), travel and subsistence expenses and a fully fitted office at home with phone, laptop and broadband. and they pay me as well, paid sick leave, paid paternity leave, paid compassionate leave, flexible working conditions, company provides all work equipment, safety equipment, all training, all PPE (though i choose to buy my own boots and hi vis gear. I've worked for this company for over 30 years.
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Eeek. Feel better Bill. I pulled my back out a few months ago. Had to lay with a heating pad all night for several nights and it eased up after a week of that. Could be a totally different thing though...that was the first time I ever had back trouble in my life. By the way, the post didn't sound like a moan and when you are in crippling pain...we will grant you a few moans without telling you to get off your pity pot.
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Well I dunt know about you, Bill, but after having a cuppa and a moan at your place I feel much better now - I even got the hoover out!!!! (I ain't plugged it IN yet, but I got it out) I can't get away with not doing it though, I already done the 'shake n vac dance'
Was good to see you and have a chat, not sure if I will make the meeting 2nite, but maybe, who knows.
OH, BTW, I opened the mail when I got home and saw 'CONGRATULATIONS' you have won a prize on the premium bonds!!! WOW!!! I ripped open the envelope, saw the figures 2 5 and a couple of zeros!!! £25,000? £2,500? £250.00??? NO SUCH LUCK - but 25 quid's not a bad little windfall, it's free and I wasn't expecting it so it was good enough.
Good old ERNIE.
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I feel your pain Bill. I woke up Saturday about 4:00 am with pain in my shoulder and neck and couldn't go back to sleep. It's still here. I blame it on stopping my daily stretches a couple weeks ago. I have back problems and had been doing them daily for about 6 months in preperation for my motorcycle trip this summer. Got home from the trip, got sick, my gym parnter quit going,... Lot of excuses but I stopped my daily routine and a couple weeks later bam. I started again Monday and will keep at it. Good luck, if you haven't get on an Ibuprofin (sp?) regime and see if that kills it.
jason, back from your trip safe and sound, looking forward to a report on that!
Well i managed to get to the Chiro, the neck was totally locked up by the time I got there, plus the rest of my back was crippled (as one part of my spine goes wrong, the rest of my spine tries to compensate and ties itself in knots.)
My chiro is a slip of a girl, 5 foot tall maybe 7 stone wet through, but she can tie me in knots and then untie them all again. She did the acupunture in the neck, realigned my neck and spine, loosened the muscles off with deep massage and did some other twisty, snappy, pully stuff that I don't understand.
I practically crawled in there and almost danced out. 2 more sessions booked for next week, she recommends ice packs on my shoulders and down my spine for 15 minutes (to reduce the inflammation) followed by heat pads down my spine for half an hour and repeat every 2 hours, plus Ibuprofen double dose.
So i'm sitting here with two ice packs down my spine and a bag of frozen chips on each shoulder (fries to youse americans) (always knew i was well balanced, got a chip on each shoulder)
So anyway i feel much more comfortable but she has warned me that this will come cback by saturday night and unfortunately the 2 tons of rubble to shift will just have to wait a few days.
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Aloha Bill...just loved how you found the gratitude stuff out of all of your pain. Program work = Program benefit. I felt kinda ashamed at myself that I glommed at and had a negative feeling that they would give you a paternity benefit....What's the chance of that happening? They don't also provide the means to it I suppose.
Well I think what I wrote yesterday came out wrong Bill. What I was aiming at was from a "Misery sure likes company" point of view.
Another thing Bill !!!!! I am your sissy, ok, not your Mum, you possible hit a little nerve doc. hahahahaha. Please KNOW I am just joking here, Okey dokey???? Oh well, just hope you are feeling better, a lot better.......
Toni, I know that you're my sister. I was talking about my real Mum when I said that Mum's can get away with saying things in the response to your other post.
your other post was fine - shared pain and experience was what I read.
Anyway it's now 1 minute past midnight here in the UK so I'm now officially out of Nappies and a toddler (in AA, 3yrs old and counting - thanks for the card AV)
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egads! That makes three of us with back pain. Mine was acute 2 weeks ago. Used to drink before to ease the pain. Glad to say that I did not. I've got the ice pack on at this moment. No matter how careful I am, after a shift at work, I'm in agony. I'll heat after this. Luckily it's not my neck this time around, but lower down effecting the rib area. In sympathy and fellowship, Angela
Don't drink and don't die.
I can't get away with not doing it though, I already done the 'shake n vac dance'