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Until and unless you decide to do something about it, don't lift anything heavy, say more than 30 lbs. If you must lift something that has weight to it don't bend over and pick it up with your back which you gotta keep straight. Lift with your legs.

You're at risk for worsening the hernia, or worse yet, given that disc problems don't occur in isolation, you've probably got one or more bulging disks that could easily rupture.

None of this is life threatening or will cause paralysis or anything like that. It's estimated that over a third of the population is walking around with herniated disks and don't know it, because it's all about which direction the herniated tissue goes. If it's in any other direction but the nerve, you'd never know. But if it hits the nerve, that's when all hell breaks loose.

It's all about the pain and whether it's bad enough to do anything about it.

I've also read that sometimes with exercise and weight loss if the person is overweight, the condition can possibly self resolve.
sometimes I’m floor ridden peeing in a bucket pain .. took 3 months last time walk to the washroom
 

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sometimes I’m floor ridden peeing in a bucket pain .. took 3 months last time walk to the washroom

I get it. There were times I couldn't get off the floor it was like being compressed by a huge vise clamp.

Try not to sit for too long. Sometimes by the time I drove 30 minutes to work I couldn't get out of the car. I used to lay on the floor in the exam room between patients to easy the back spasms.

The other thing to consider is that surgery can be less effective the longer you wait and if you're taking the strong stuff like narcotics for the pain, over time... well you know what can happen.
 
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