Originally Posted by
Boosted131
I am hoping someone will have ideas on how I can fix my back. On my MRI in last December I found out I have a slipped disc, scoliosis, and schmorl's nodes. I am not sure what has caused this but I have been visiting the chiropractor and massage to try and help. I have done physio which didn’t seem to do much. The chiro seems to help the most, but the pain does seem to come right back. Sitting in my desk at work is constantly painful no matter how I sit. We have standing desks as well, but standing still is just as painful. If I stand up and walk around it helps relieve tension, until I stop again. Sitting still it feels like someone is constantly pushing down on your head, and a pain of one of my ribs digging into something else. Swimming is probably the best relief I have found, but I can’t just be in a pool all day. I have an inversion table which also seems to take off some pressure. Hopefully someone else has some suggestions as now I have to wait for 12-18 months on a list , to see a “back specialist”. Not sure what this is going to do, since I’m already seeing a back specialist (chiro).
How much do you weigh? And are you fit? Don't lie.
I'm now getting back to normal from a stage 4 disc extrusion measuring 1.6x1.1 cm about the size of a blueberry that grossly displaced my S1 root nerve and put a good deal of pressure on my thecal sac.
Whatever you do, DO NOT attempt deadlifts or any kind of workout routine right now.
What size is your disc prolapse? Is the annulus torn or just bulged? Very important to know. Doctors usually won't tell you either.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft