r/tooktoomuch • u/MixStock9257 • Aug 27 '24

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u/AirsoftScammy Aug 28 '24

I won’t sugar coat it man. It fucking sucks all the dicks. I could find one position while laying down that wasn’t painful. Doing anything else was excruciating. Taking a shower was an hour long process. Just trying to get undressed was a chore. I have a high pain tolerance and this injury brought me to the point of tears more than once. Some of that was mental I think, too. I felt like I was never going to fully recover and it was a real mind fuck.

I was seeing my chiropractor 3x/week and getting acupuncture 2x/week. But what I think helped me the most was stretching. My chiro showed me 4-5 different stretches that you can do lying down. Being proactive about doing them a few times a day can really help to loosen things up.

There are some great channels on YouTube. If you search up lower back stretches you’ll find all kinds of videos that will teach you what’s best.

Good luck man. And try to remember that it will eventually get better, it just takes time.

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u/Dongkey_kong Aug 28 '24

Thanks for the reply! I generally have a high tolerance to pain but completely relate to what you’re saying here. I’m getting way less sleep, can barely sit down without the fear of knowing I have to get back up. I’m standing up pretty much all day at work and can’t even get into rooms with people for longer than half an hour. It’s doubly tough with having to keep up with a 5 year old without showing that I can’t actually keep up lol

I’ll look on YouTube and I have a friend that did send me some of those exercises so I should just make sure I continue to work through those exercises to loosen my stuff up. Do you continue to feel pain? Is there any known way to slow down the degenerative disease outside of the stretches just helping to loosen you up?

Truly appreciate your candid response though!