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FloridaOrange
10-12-2009, 07:22 AM
Blew my back out again.
Word to the wise: If you mess up your back and then get it fixed, don't, under any circumstances, try to show a 17 y.o. how to swing a pick axe. :mad:

Going back in for another round of traction. :eek:
Peter Griffin
10-12-2009, 08:25 AM
It's amazing how many things you think you can do and later find out that you can't. It aint easy getting old. :mad:
Terry
10-12-2009, 08:48 AM
I prefer NUCCA for back treatment.

At 57 I was batting cleanup for my softball team this year.

Here's a video that the local television station did on my doctor.
http://www.nuccainseattle.com/

King 5 Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMhe35oMJzg)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMhe35oMJzg
FloridaOrange
10-12-2009, 09:48 AM
Interesting video. I'm going in for Vax-D http://www.vax-d.com/ which my nuerosurgeon thinks is witch doctory but it worked for me the first time. I think my nuerosurgeon just wants a chance to cut into me.

Peter, my main doctor had the same comment about getting old.
Terry
10-12-2009, 10:35 AM
I think my neurosurgeon just wants a chance to cut into me.


I think surgeons like cutting.
When I go the U of W Hospital, I see a lot of crooked doctors and nurses walking the hallways.

I will be going in for a different type of surgery soon myself, but not for the back.

I have two types of chiropractors, one in Seattle for the neck and back,
http://www.nuccainseattle.com/

and a second in Kenmore for ankles, wrists and shoulders.

And I'm open to other methods too as I learn about them.

Last December I was told my blood pressure was getting too high,
So I reduced the amount of beef I was eating, started eating more fish and chicken, took a fish oil capsule a day, and now I'm down to a normal blood pressure range of 118 over 80

My chiropractor for the neck? It's been five months since I've seen her.
I went two years one time, and would have been longer except for the thumping I took at Sandy Beach in Hawaii.
It's not nice when a twelve foot wave pounds you into the sand.

I'm looking forward to ski season coming up.

http://whattimetuesday.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lkVpw6rngM&NR=1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lkVpw6rngM&NR=1
FloridaOrange
10-12-2009, 11:01 AM
I was doing great and that was the problem. I forgot I shouldn't be doing stuff like swinging pickaxes...

This is a kick in the pants that I need to start excercising and stretching.
Hopefully it'll turn into a habit once I'm able to.
Cookie
10-12-2009, 03:44 PM
I was told walking for the back is excellent.
Peter Griffin
10-12-2009, 04:40 PM
Walking does make my back feel better but then my feet hurt :D
Cookie
10-12-2009, 04:48 PM
Walking is good but be careful on the roads, I got hit in the eye once with a rock when a car sped by. My back was better but I couldn't see. :)
Peter Griffin
10-12-2009, 04:57 PM
I believe the Chinese call that ying and yang
FloridaOrange
10-12-2009, 05:19 PM
Years ago when I whacked my back out I had to mow my lawn. I really had to mow it, we had a brief dry spell (2 days) in between 3 weeks of daily rain. The lawn was overgrown as it was and I couldn't imagine waiting another week or two. Somehow, mowing the lawn fixed my back - I've tried and failed at replicating that ever since.


Now I don't even mow my own lawn and haven't had a mower in the garage for years.
Peter Griffin
10-12-2009, 05:38 PM
I'll fly you up, you can take a crack at mine :D
FloridaOrange
10-12-2009, 05:51 PM
Wouldn't The Bowels of Hell be a little warmer than what I've got here.


Currently in Fort Myers (8:58 PM)
85 F
Feels like 93 F
Humidity: 70%

Thanks for the offer but I'll have to pass. :D
Peter Griffin
10-13-2009, 01:21 PM
OH come on up, it's warm here too. I'll even buy you a beer when you're done with the back 40 :D
FloridaOrange
10-13-2009, 06:12 PM
I'm better today....then again I'm also on good old pharmacutical stuff.
My brother's pushing me to get rid of my (small) gut and get back into shape. That should also hold off the knife happy surgeon for a while. Good a time as any.
Peter Griffin
10-13-2009, 06:24 PM
Ah vicoden the working mans little helper :D
FloridaOrange
10-13-2009, 06:46 PM
Ah vicoden the working mans little helper :D

The doc warned me that the vicoden will mask the pain and the pain is the body's way of warning us. I asked him if he had any herniated discs (I've got two) to which he responded "no". I told him vicoden only makes the pain more tolerable, doesn't really mask it.




He wrote me an additional prescription. Percocet. :D That does a decent job of masking the pain. Only problem is that stuff makes me itch and sweat like a mofo but I feel good.
Dunbar Plumbing
10-13-2009, 07:00 PM
Narcotics are a true working man's aid. Been on them for 11 years now and I can successfully make dreams come true.


No pain and I'll take on more work than I can handle.
FloridaOrange
10-13-2009, 07:28 PM
Matt, that is an allergic reaction .... I hope you don't mind me saying this. I am just concerned when I read it.


Mild reaction, I've always had the same reaction to codine. The doc knows it and isn't concerned and I've had codine for various things over the years. I appreciate the concern but don't sweat it, I'll take care of the sweating part. :p It's also a bonus, I couldn't stand to be hooked on the stuff.

I had a friend with back issues get hooked on the pills, with no insurance it led him to find pills on the street and eventually he got into herion. He was a really great guy too. Shame his father passed away without seeing his son get clean.
Peter Griffin
10-13-2009, 07:32 PM
Vic's don't cause me any problem but perc's make me sick as a dog. I'll tell you what though, there are days that without the vic's there is no way in hell I could get out of bed my back hurts so bad.
FloridaOrange
10-13-2009, 07:37 PM
Ever had an MRI?
Xrays will not usually show disc problems.

When I had my wisdom teeth yanked (all 4 at once Ian) I was given Percs. Made me puke my guts out. My girlfriend hung in there like a champ and actually cleaned it up, every time I tried to it made me puke more.



I married that girl, been together for 15 years and married for 8.
FloridaOrange
10-13-2009, 07:58 PM
Wow, that is horrible. Do you know how he is doing today?

Last I heard he was living in a basement apartment below his mother's house. Couple of DUI's arrested and almost went to jail for something related to his dealer's activities. He was (is?) an incredible carpenter too.

He lost his girlfriend of 4 years +, most of his friends and his father's pride. His parents were great people, very conservative and religeous and it kills me that he couldn't get his sh*t together for the people who would do anything for him (his friends included). You reach a point with a friendship that you just can't worry about him anymore. It's funny, he used to bitch in a jealous way about me when he was still in FL. Saying my life was easy and I had it made. I got where I am (which isn't anything above solid middle class) by going to school, working hard and having priorities.
FloridaOrange
12-04-2009, 07:48 PM
Update. 20 more sessions of traction under my belt and multiple weeks of not picking anything up over 15-20 pounds (including my daughter) and my back is feeling really, really good again.

I noticed it tonight when I was actually throwing my daughter up in the air. Not sure exactly when I wasn't in pain....but I'm not! :D Not about to conciously do anything stupid for quite some time.
Dunbar Plumbing
12-04-2009, 10:16 PM
I was told walking for the back is excellent.



I need to kick whoever said that in that back, for walking.


I'm in so much pain after walking through a big box store that I have to medicate before and after I do it.
Dunbar Plumbing
12-04-2009, 10:19 PM
Update. 20 more sessions of traction under my belt and multiple weeks of not picking anything up over 15-20 pounds (including my daughter) and my back is feeling really, really good again.

I noticed it tonight when I was actually throwing my daughter up in the air. Not sure exactly when I wasn't in pain....but I'm not! :D Not about to conciously do anything stupid for quite some time.



I wish I had "moments" like that where I was feeling "none" in the realm of pain.


It's made me a more careful worker of sorts, which I think is good.
FloridaOrange
12-05-2009, 04:09 AM
I wish I had "moments" like that where I was feeling "none" in the realm of pain.


It's made me a more careful worker of sorts, which I think is good.

Ever get an MRI to identify the issue?
Terry
12-05-2009, 09:55 AM
Here's a cool Discovery Channel video (http://www.nucca.org/racecar.htm) about racecar dragster driver Tony Schumacher after his crash at 330 mph

Race Car Video (http://www.nucca.org/racecar.htm)

http://www.dragraceusa.com/images/latestnews/2004/TonySchumacherInterviewShotWeb.jpg
http://www.shoeracing.com/schumacher
Redwood
12-05-2009, 03:43 PM
A lot of people thought "The Sarge" would never come back after that wreck...

Funny what those chiropractors know about you by just watching you walk into the adjustment room...

Yea, I usually have some complaints that I tell him about...

The funny thing is he always fixes a bunch of things that I didn't know was wrong with me..:eek:

Wow thanks doc...
I didn't realize that I was having a tough time looking over my shoulder....:D

I walk in like a knuckle dragger and leave walking upright....
Works for me!