Back Pain

Laddey

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I'm 22, 6ft and 12 stone 8lb.

The past month i've started with severe back pain to my lower back. Where my spine meets my pelvis. If i bend down more than like 45 degrees its a struggle to get back up.

I have a manual lifting job, i pump iron in the gym regulary.

It all started when i once sat on a plastic solid chair, slouched a bit and the bottom of my back gave 2 all mighty cracks, it felt amazing. Like i could move again...Like it knocked the rust off my joints.

I only done it very rarely, once was probably too many times i understand that.

I'm currently led on my bed, cant be fucked to get up because it hurts.

Any home-made remedys you guys can reccomend? Radox bath with scented candles n shit?

I'm gonna go to the doctors tomorrow, which means a day off work. Cbfa.

Chances are the doctor will prescribe me some pain killers which will make me light headed and then sign me off work.


If i tell the doc i dont wanna be signed off work, does that mean they can refuse me treatment as it can make the injury worse?
 

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Sounds pretty bad, I'd be taking it easy until a pro had a good look at it.
 

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Start doing yoga, more effective than anything the doctor will do in the long run.
 

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Back pain is something to take seriously ladders. It's probably just a strain or something, but if its something bad it will come back to haunt you, so go get it looked at.
 

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Cheers dudes....Do i go to the doctors or straight to hozzy? No point wasting a day off work if the docs gonna send me to hoz
 

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GP, A+E won't do much for you.

Chances are, painkillers + referral for physio.

Alternatively you could pay yourself and see someone privately quicker.
 

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Doctor. If you can walk its not A&E-worthy. Problem with back stuff is there's no quick fix; yes he can give you pain-killers, but there's a danger of masking the pain so you make things worse. TBH if you have a manual lifting job, working is only going to make any back injury worse, especially if its spinal rather than muscular (which from the location, it sounds spinal).
 

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Stop the gym now, see a doctor. You've probably been aggravating your lower back with bad form in the gym and bad lifting at work.
 

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Yeah i dont really want painkillers as you said, it will possibly mask the problem.

I'm no doctor but its definately not muscular. 100%.

If i say i dont want to be signed off work (because i cant sit on my ass day in day out) can they refuse to treat me as it could make the problem worse?
 

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Stop the gym now, see a doctor. You've probably been aggravating your lower back with bad form in the gym and bad lifting at work.
Yeah the gym has stopped since it started hurting, most logical thing to do.
 

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take care of your back laddy. you only have one and if you fuff it it's fucked for life. go to the doctors and have the fella feel you up :)
 

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I don't have much advice but good luck. Back pain sucks balls.
 

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Also Laddey, do not start the gym again until you are cleared to. It's difficult once you are into it, as you'll start losing the muscles and be bored, but remember that to some extent your core muscles are involved in every single exercise you do, so you need to rest totally.

I had to take 3 months off for a pulled back muscle and it was horrible :(
 

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Get yourself down the quacks tomorrow m8. Backpain is notoriously difficult to diagnose. See what they have to say & take it from there. I would definitely knock off the weight-lifting for now. GL bud
 

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Make sure your matress is top quality also - I used to get some back pain while lying on my bed (where i do a lot of reading) - bought myself a really decent matress and i've had no pain since.
 

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Doc will give you some crap pills that will do nothing. Massage, doc will be able to send you off to one after a month or so ( if it's anything like mine) Massage/Physio is the way, quite possible one massage session could sort it instantly. Fuck off the sted-head look, go swimming instead : no back pain ever.
 

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Make sure your matress is top quality also - I used to get some back pain while lying on my bed (where i do a lot of reading) - bought myself a really decent matress and i've had no pain since.

I have a memory foam mattress, its a goody.
Doc will give you some crap pills that will do nothing. Massage, doc will be able to send you off to one after a month or so ( if it's anything like mine) Massage/Physio is the way, quite possible one massage session could sort it instantly. Fuck off the sted-head look, go swimming instead : no back pain ever.
I'd love to do swimming as part of my cardio regime but as i have tattoos constantly being worked on it isnt possible.


Massages sound good, i'd be good doe for a decent one. Never really had one other than off my bird.
 

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I have a memory foam mattress, its a goody.

I'd love to do swimming as part of my cardio regime but as i have tattoos constantly being worked on it isnt possible.


Massages sound good, i'd be good doe for a decent one. Never really had one other than off my bird.

what kind of memory foam mattress, what kind of springs does it have, what is your normal sleeping position, what is the firmness rating of the mattress?
 

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Oh and don't just go and get a massage, it's a bad idea. You need to see a specialist first and if they recommend sports physio massage, then you do that.
 

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Not to sound snobbish laddey, but you do get what you pay for with mattereses, and frankly I wouldn't sleep my worst enemy on that.
 

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I have a memory foam mattress, its a goody.

I'd love to do swimming as part of my cardio regime but as i have tattoos constantly being worked on it isnt possible.


Massages sound good, i'd be good doe for a decent one. Never really had one other than off my bird.


bolox ! my left sleave will be complete in 3 weeks, alrerady started on the right..fuck man swimming is a grt place to show em off, poor excuse...next !
 

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Oh and don't just go and get a massage, it's a bad idea. You need to see a specialist first and if they recommend sports physio massage, then you do that.

do what the man says
 

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bolox ! my left sleave will be complete in 3 weeks, alrerady started on the right..fuck man swimming is a grt place to show em off, poor excuse...next !
Colour, high detail. 2 Weeks healing time. 2 arms, back piece, leg piece (next week)
 

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I remember a few month back screwing my back up terribly, sat on a chair in work which was uncomfortable at my back but i persisted with it for a few hours instead of changing it immediately, when i finished work i only felt a slight twinge nothing serious. Two days later all hell broke loose, remember going to bed and no matter what i did, whether it was move my fingers or (try) turning over, the pain was beyond anything i ever felt.

Ended up staying up all night and had to call in sick the next day because i could do jack all, the pain eased towards the end of the day but it was a big warning to me never to do that again. Then a few weeks ago i was bending down at a water machine filling up my bottle (Taking forever) when my back just gave way again, wasn't as serious but it was painful walking before it once again eased.

Did find a hot water bottle on the targetted area helped ease the pain, was always the bloody case that i couldn't find one when i needed one though until it subsided.
 

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Best advice I can give you is to stay the hell away from chiropracters - once they sink their claws into you they get you for life as a regular because all they give is temporary relief of symptoms in my opinion.
 

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Only if you continue to aggravate your problem or fail to self-manage will your back problem last; very few problems are beyond mechanical pain, so you sort that and you sort your problem.
 

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Best advice I can give you is to stay the hell away from chiropracters - once they sink their claws into you they get you for life as a regular because all they give is temporary relief of symptoms in my opinion.

This is my experience with chiropractors too. You spend like £30 and end up with 24 hours of pain relief and then it's back to normal. It might depend on what the problem actually is, but at least in my case chiropractors and osteopaths and what not have never had a lasting effect except for telling me some exercises to do to help.
 

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