I hurt my back on Monday and I can still barely move around two days later! Argh!
On Monday my husband and I spent several hours working in our garden. We weeded and I tidied up plants that were flopping over or crowding out other plants and then … we put about 17 bags of cedar mulch on the garden. Just the back garden … we still have to do the flower beds in the front. Groan!
My back, which has a herniated disk and some bone degeneration, was already hurting during the weeding process, but I pushed on and added mulch to the garden. By the time we finished my back was hurting so bad I could barely walk.
I went inside and laid down and after two hours of letting my back have a rest it felt a lot better, but yesterday it was stiff and soar and if anything it’s even worse today. Time to pull out the heating pad.
Right now I’m just lying on the couch, reading and answering emails and blog comments while watching TV. I know you shouldn’t lie down too much when your back is sore, but right now it’s the only thing that helps. I am getting up and stretching every now and then – so hopefully that helps too.
One of the emails I received this morning was from a friend asking me to check out a page about Decaslim reviews. She wants to lose weight and i guess since I’m a nurse she wants my opinion on this product. I guess I’ll be reading it sometime this afternoon since I can’t do much else other than work on my computer while lying down, read or watch TV.
Do any of you have a herniated or “slipped” disk? How do you relieve your pain?
Haven’t had one personally but I hear heat pads and steamy bubble baths with salts are good cheap solutions. Do you use those icy/hot patches as well? Maybe some light stretching would help.
Very nice blog.
I am with the last reply…heating pad…herbal muscle relaxers because your muscles in your back area will be strained in trying to support your discs.
It really is so not the fun part of being human…’this human condition’!