| A few years ago I ruptured a few discs in my back, | | | | physical therapy in order to regain my strength and |
| and pinched the sciatic nerve between them. To be | | | | walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And |
| honest, I don't recall experiencing any other pain quite | | | | besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips |
| like that was. Even giving birth and having a super | | | | in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make |
| duper tooth ache didn't compare to this. | | | | things worse. |
| When it first happened, it sent me on my hands and | | | | That's when I decided to take matters into my own |
| knees. I couldn't move; I even had trouble speaking, | | | | hands. I was going to beat this ordeal. I realized that |
| because the pain was so intense. Thankfully my | | | | by staying still for too long, made things worse. My |
| husband was nearby. I couldn't stand and it hurt to | | | | entire body stiffened up. So my first goal was to get |
| move, so my husband scooped me up and carried | | | | up and move. My husband was a great coach, |
| me to the bedroom and placed me on the bed. | | | | despite the crying I did. Once on my feet, we |
| I laid in pain for about 2 days, only getting up with | | | | walked (very slowly) back and forth in the bedroom. |
| my husbands help, to go to the bathroom. He told | | | | After about the second day of this, I was able to |
| me I couldn't go on like this and that something | | | | move a little faster and attempted the stairs. |
| needed to be done. He scooped me up again, carried | | | | It took a good month before I was back to normal, |
| me to the car, and off to the hospital we went. | | | | but I did it on my own. Why pay a therapist for the |
| They done all sorts of examinations and knew quite | | | | same thing you can do yourself? I will have to live |
| quickly what I had done. | | | | with this condition for the rest of my life, but I |
| I was sent home with medications that sometimes | | | | learned from trial and error what makes it hurt, and |
| worked and sometimes didn't. After about 36 hours, | | | | what makes it feel better, and without medications. |
| I noticed that I was having a bad reaction to the | | | | I do have a word of advise here: When an injury |
| meds. I swelled up like a balloon and wasn't able to | | | | occurs to a nerve within the body, especially on or |
| urinate at all. We called the doctor whom told me to | | | | near the spine; any vibrations will irritate it immensely. |
| quit taking any and all meds for now, and to drink as | | | | Riding a mower, using muscle massager's, even riding |
| much water as I could possibly hold, hoping to | | | | in a car at times will cause relapsed spasms to occur. |
| detoxify my system. Okay, so that worked, but | | | | But you can get through it without the heavy cost |
| what about this pain? | | | | of therapists, and unneeded drugs, which usually have |
| The doctors told me I would need to go through | | | | negative side effects in one form or another. |