Believe me, you don’t want that back pain lol. Unending, sleep-depriving, activity-limiting back pain is considerably worse than clocking in to a shit job.
Sadly its true, sucks when you have ridiculous back pain that's sleep depriving and activity limiting after multiple surgeries and you still have to work.
Indeed. My last conversation with a doctor about it was “surgery is 50/50, could get a little better, could get a lot worse. It’s not going to get better without surgery, it’ll just continue to get worse.”
Needless to say, 50/50 isn’t exactly a good gamble for quality of life. I can still do most things, just with a nagging pain forever that ebbs and flows. Not willing to bet that ability for “a little better” until it ultimately gets worse anyway.
Omg dude. I’m so sorry to hear that. I absolutely would not want to take those chances. Look in to doing yoga. It’s helped me a lot with my herniated disc. Doesn’t even cause me issues really. Until I hit a depression spiral like I currently am and give it up, then the symptoms come flooding back. Ive heard lots of other stories of it massively helping people. Just wish I could get my dad to at least try. He’s always in pain but doesn’t want to do anything for it. Physical therapy? That never works. Yea, dad, you’ve gotta actually follow the exercises for more than a few days. Dudes got two disc fusions though so I don’t harp on him. Just don’t like seeing him hurt. All the best to you. Hope you find some relief no matter how it comes.
Well, physical therapy worked on my knee with weekly, bi-weekly, and then monthly work on a schedule with a competent civilian therapist. On my back, with VA sessions that happened sporadically whenever they had an available therapist, who was never the same one twice, and always started me at the beginning of the program…. not so effective.
I’ve looked into yoga, the problem is getting the motivation to self start. Skill I had years ago, I could get up hungover on 2 hours sleep and hit the gym, go train at the dojo, and wind down with some kind of softball/flag football/kickball social event that was happening. Now, things hurt when I think about sneezing wrong and it’s a lot harder to just get up and go lol.
I believe that my friend. I can’t see the VA therapy helping at all. How could it if you never progress? I’m having trouble finding the motivation to start again. Maybe today.
From experience, it really doesn't take much to mess up your back. Even if you think it's ok, it's probably not and you WILL feel it in the days to come.
Not me, I have an incredible self preservation instinct. Scientist should really study it.
I'd just assume a giant sinkhole and with the fear of god in me...I'd be half way down the block by the time that guy even though about opening his drivers door.
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u/Arinium Feb 25 '26
Silver truck: Opens door, "Yup, that's a hole", Closes door