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