Harry Frogfish
Footballguy
I got home after 3 days and then couldn't take a crap. Up the entire night in the bathroom trying, which hurt like hell. Had to go back to the ER and get an enema. Ended up on that bathroom floor in the fetal as well. Just pushing was serious pain. Took like 6 hours after also drinking some concoction. Got home finally and it feels like I'm getting stopped up again from the meds. But it hurts to just to get out of bed. And REALLY hurts when I move/turn the wrong way and the nerves go haywire. Takes you to your knees.
It wasn't a very hard fall. Definitely not one that should have broken vertebrae. That's the orthos main concern -- why they broke (slipping on a floor in my home running to the bathroom). Not normal at my age (55) and I am in decent shape and not overweight. Nor did I hit something at a very weird angle or anything.
My mind is as bad as my back now, as all I keep thinking about is if I'll ever do some of the things I love the most, like skiing. And I'm very concerned there might be something worse underneath, like what caused it, why so weak, those bones? It's hard to not think about all the ramifications. You wake up one day feeling fine, fortunate and happy. Hours later, your life is one serious question mark. I'm already full of regrets that won't stop swirling around my head. How my life will never be the same, where I went wrong, the split second that changed everything, etc. It's torturous. Especially being alone, doesn't help.
I broke 6 vertebrae like 3 years ago in a freak accident, so we're up to 9 now. It's hard not to think about what my back is going to feel like the rest of my life, especially 10-20 years from now, and where that will put me.
Anybody break their back and have advice? I'm going to have to change the way I live. Like yoga, diet and exercise I assume. I declined surgery, btw, and am open to any sort of long-term maintenance but have zero clue on what could work and what is just some BS treatment (of which, there are many I'm sure). I'm already getting ads for every type of back pain "fix" you could imagine.
It wasn't a very hard fall. Definitely not one that should have broken vertebrae. That's the orthos main concern -- why they broke (slipping on a floor in my home running to the bathroom). Not normal at my age (55) and I am in decent shape and not overweight. Nor did I hit something at a very weird angle or anything.
My mind is as bad as my back now, as all I keep thinking about is if I'll ever do some of the things I love the most, like skiing. And I'm very concerned there might be something worse underneath, like what caused it, why so weak, those bones? It's hard to not think about all the ramifications. You wake up one day feeling fine, fortunate and happy. Hours later, your life is one serious question mark. I'm already full of regrets that won't stop swirling around my head. How my life will never be the same, where I went wrong, the split second that changed everything, etc. It's torturous. Especially being alone, doesn't help.
I broke 6 vertebrae like 3 years ago in a freak accident, so we're up to 9 now. It's hard not to think about what my back is going to feel like the rest of my life, especially 10-20 years from now, and where that will put me.
Anybody break their back and have advice? I'm going to have to change the way I live. Like yoga, diet and exercise I assume. I declined surgery, btw, and am open to any sort of long-term maintenance but have zero clue on what could work and what is just some BS treatment (of which, there are many I'm sure). I'm already getting ads for every type of back pain "fix" you could imagine.
