I have back pain, and no answers. ***warning*** this is long
I'm 26, I've been an active person my entire life.
At the awesome tender age of 13 I was thrown head first into the shallow end of a pool (thank goodness for bullies, where would we be without them?). The end result at the ER was severe muscle strain and a loss of my Lordotic curvature.
As I aged I was involved in 2 minor car accidents, and a... moderate accident, the worst injuries received were seat belt bruising, a foot laceration and whiplash in my first and actually least severe of all three accidents.
As I've aged I have gained a new friend, I call it my Lump. **REMOVED***I understand the junction of my C7 should be exaggerated at Flexion because of the spinous process, but imagine cupping your hand and it being full of tissue, in which the bone sits very superficial to, it's pretty gross actually and I make a joke of grossing people out with it.
I have basically lived with constant pain for years now, but was raised to only go to MD's when necessary. This past year though my back pain had taken a turn for the worst. Standing in one position now for too long makes my toes and the bottom of my feet numb. If I sit for too long, I have severe burning pain. If I lay for too long I am stiff and ache. I decided I wanted to try and get to the bottom, but afraid of the worst, decided that I first wanted only conservative treatment.
I went to a chiropractor for the 1st time in my life. After 3 months of treatment I saw little improvement. After 6 weeks at the Chiro, my family MD sent me to PT. 4 weeks with 3 sessions a week, didn't cease any pain, but did give a slight increase of rotation in my neck. Both the Chiro and Fam MD ordered sets of Xrays. I saw the Xrays, my C4 is pushed foward, its nasty. The radiologists report once again only described lordotic curvature loss.
At that point my family MD ordered a nerve conduction study, which was passed with flying colors.
At this point, my Chiro can't treat me due to insurance restrictions, and my MD won't do anything but more PT. I'm fed up with the pain, in every case, after a medical professional(or not), (chiro,MD, PT, PTA, the nerve MD, friends who care, etc etc etc) has felt my back, I've gotten descriptions like "Blueberry Sized Gravel" "Lots of tension points" "muscles that feel like rocks" the list could go on.... seriously.
It seems I've hit a brick wall with no where to look to but the pain I've been staring down the last 10 years of my life.
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Pain is pretty continuous throughout back. Centralized pain runs the entire way around my shoulder blades, and on either side of my spine.
Since the pain begin, I am a chronic "back popper". Call me Rice Crispies. What's sad is all the ways I cracked myself were the "adjustments" the chiro made.
Pain is slightly relieved after I pop, and if I pop good enough and lay still I get a couple minutes of pain free comfort.
I don't know what else to do. I've researched Fibromyalgia, and related muscle diseases, and things of that sort. I don't drink heavy amounts of sweet soda drinks. I take a multivitamin, and have a B vitamin complex as well.
Recently my entire body has taken to doing the mexican jumping bean. totally random muscles will just painlessly twitch, fingers, toes, my back, my face, my legs my arms....
Please I'm so tired of this, common muscle relaxers don't seem to relieve any of the pain/symptoms, can anyone help....
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Last edited by Mod08; 03-20-2009 at 09:00 AM.
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