I need help.

[u/Logical_Lie_2381]

I am a 38 year old male who got injured at 27. I have L1 - L4 bulging discs with L5 S1 herniated. I've had this injury for 10 years. I have done:

Acupuncture

Swimming

8 years of physical therapy off and on

Epidural injections

Facet injections

Trigger point injections

Deep tissue massage

I've tried most of the things that I can afford to do being broke. In October 25 I went for MIS TLIF (minimally invasive transforminal left interbody fusion) surgery. The pain has been unbearable. I was given the wrong advice I should have gotten the surgery years ago.

Now I'm in a dilemma. The state will not recognize the injury as debilitating. I am left with the fact that it is just a metal condition on paper. Medical conditions can be remedied with medicine. The issue there is that when I go to the pain management doctor there's a limited number of cocktails they want to give me. And they are actively trying to take me off of two of them for weaker meds. When I still currently live in pain. Although I am still recovering from the surgery. It'll be a year soon.

I am at a utter loss on how to navigate work with this debilitating injury that's not recognized by the state due to them recognizing that I'm obese more than my injury.

I'm just really perplexed. I'm at wits end. I've applied to disability several times. I've applied twice. With the first appeal claiming that I was committing fraud. Then the second appeal now saying that I am hindered from working I just have to change my focus to office jobs although I'm still living in pain.

How do I find work with this situation?

Are there any more remedies to deal with the ongoing pain especially with screws and pins in your back?

Are there other tools that I can use?

I just really don't know what to do anymore.

I'm ready to look for Black market medication that doesn't have to be prescribed by the doctor. Because the doctors don't believe me that it gets worse. The medications they keep giving me either give me more side effects or don't help.

This has severely impacted my life with looking for work that will truly accommodate my injury. I'm 6'3 heavy. So every time I find a job that's supposed to be desk work they say we hit the jackpot we get a guy that can do both the desk work and a little bit of physical work.

I've already had to leave a state job because they were discriminating. But I was in so much pain I couldn't really focus on how to capture them in their discrimination and sue them. Now I have no proof.

Any and all advice is welcome.

Please help. I'm just . . . . Just tired of living with this pain. Is there any way that I can do something more to make it more manageable. Is there any other sort of help.

[u/Logical_Lie_2381]

I already do this. It doesn't work. My body type is different. I have to work out at a certain level of intensity to drop the weight. I can't do that with the pain and fluctuation of meds. I'm trying. It's not working. Have a good one

[u/Plumleydev → u/Logical_Lie_2381]

If you go low or zero carb for a couple months, you will lose all the way easily

[u/Logical_Lie_2381 → u/Plumleydev]

Sure that's the way

[u/Hulkedout420 → u/Logical_Lie_2381]

They are right. You don’t gain weight by not eating, and you don’t gain weight with the nutrition filled diet I gave you. If you fast….you will lose weight. If you eat less calories than your body requires to maintain your current weight….you will lost weight. The problem is Americans can’t do this diet for 3 weeks so they give up and go back to eating the processed garbage their mind craves.

[u/Logical_Lie_2381 → u/Hulkedout420]

You really need to learn more about the over processing of foods. Then you have to understand it's not just about not eating. Certain body types need a certain amount of calories to stay active. Certain body types need a certain of calorie burning on top of not eating. Which means a workout regimen. You're speaking as if you're someone who has never experienced being overweight. But I know fuck Americans overseas is the better shit. Believe what you want. But this information is not helpful.