Quote:
Originally Posted by greta
If you can locate some of the trigger points, push in on them to help release. Cecelia has been showing me how to hit them and if you can even release some of them, you'll be better off. How about rolling the area while laying on a tennis ball? That might help?
That being said, when mine gets really bad around the sciatic nerve (and it was really bad after 11 hours in a car and then walking all the next day) valium can be a big help for temporary relief.
Lay on your back with one knee bent and straighten the other leg and pull it towards you. Really helps the lower back for some reason.
|
When the behind the shoulder blade spasm hit suddenly yesterday morning it made me gasp and the first thing I did was head for the corner of the doorframe. I swear after my accident in '94 I spent more time attached to doorframes.... sometimes that helps a bit and more often the muscle is so badly spasaming that it doesn't. I'll try tennis balls today. Maybe I need to drive to see Cecelia! She was awesome. I never felt so good as I did after seeing her. You are SOOOOooooo gonna miss her. (maybe you can fly SA to appts?)
I know you were hurting. Two of us were playing brave face! Sorry.
Quote:
Originally Posted by braingonebad
When's the last time you had that back MRId?
Then I'd bring those MRIs to a good pain clinic, where they have several options for you in addition to your massage.
I do the steroid shots as needed and I'll tell you, if not for those I would have thrown myself off a cliff.
They also give me muscle relaxers and tramadol, and they offer massage, PT and all kinds of stuff.
Asking for help with pain doesn't mean one is weak. Pain is the body's only way of screaming *FIRE!!!* It's telling you something's wrong, and hoping you'll fix it.
 |
I just had the cervical and T-spine done not too long ago, but I've never had the lumbar spine done--ever. Might be worth it.
If this keeps up, I'd consider going to a pain clinic.
Know the syring isn't a walk in the park painwise for you. Glad something's helping you with that.
Last night it was really bad. I dug around in my closet looking for anything that would help (didn't think I had anything at all other than Ibuprofen or Baclofen) and found some skelaxin. About fell to the floor worshiping the Skelaxin package! Thank goodness I had some left over from last year when I got whiplash again in a car accident that totaled my favorite car. Took 20 mg of Baclofen, 800 mg. of Skelaxin, 400 mg of Ibuprofen, 1 box of velveeta mac & cheese, and 1 glass of milk, 1 warm bath with epsom salts, and went to bed.
Woke up every time I moved--in pain. Sometime near the morning it stopped hurting so badly and I could actually get up this morning without thinking that I'd slept on a bed of nails and my headache was gone. Lower back and behind the shoulder blade still hurt, but the level's gone down a bit to just really uncomfortable instead of "get the house off my foot" pain level. Last night I would rather have been giving birth without the aid of a pain killer--at least I would have had something to show for it!
Massage is at 10:45 today.
I was so ready to go to the ER last night it was that bad. If this doesn't let up by Monday, I'll see my doc. Have a few more Skelaxin, so can use them--and will. And I'll try the stretching and tennis balls too. Thanks for the suggestions and support!