Have what I believe to be a lower thoracic vertebrae bulging out a tiny bit and it’s beginning to drive me absolutely mad. Can’t sit down. Can hardly lay down. Stopped lifting for a week, seems to be getting worse. It’s been like 1 year of this shit. Feels like an insane pressure pushing out of the side of my spine. Anyone here experienced this? I slipped L3 when I was a kid and had gnarly sciatica but this feels like a deep pressure and not a pinch.
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This sounds absolutely terribly awful!!!
Does anything make it feel better? Hanging on a bar?
Honestly…not really. When I lay on my stomach it feels like a mass is trying to push itself out of my spine. I’ve had 1,000,000 injuries in my life. This is a particularly weird feeling. I cannot tell if it’s an insane hip tightness manifesting in my spine or I am just fucked and my spinal cord is toast.
Did you see a doctor for it?
No I generally suffer until I cannot take it anymore and then I bug out.
I deal with things in a healthy manner.
That’s a good approach. It’s better to try and guess than to get xray confirmation 😂
You know how it is dog…
Especially with things that could be soft tissue injuries..they just take an eon to heal. So I kept saying “it’ll get better” but it’s just not.
You’re right though. I am the lord of procrastinating and running from answers I don’t want
I get that I’ve avoided the doctor for a lot of things. Don’t trust them a lot of the time and it doesn’t always help. But with this, the solution be a simpler fix than you imagine. Just need some kind of MRI or other image to know what the issue is
⬆️ what he said. A diagnosis might be helpful for your self prescribed treatment plan.
You’re definitely right. I need to get health insurance first 😅🥲
Could be *
I suffered for years with a fucked-up toe and eventually had surgery for it. I waited (maybe longer than I should have) because didn’t like what the first two doctors told me they would do, and I needed to some interviewing and research because I only had one shot at this.
Man do I feel that one. I am the king of that. Tore my meniscus medially/laterally in 2012, had surgery in 2018. You’d think I would have learned my lesson.
I was flying all over the country in the summer of 2023 to do video interviews of clients of a company that eventually laid me off, and none of the work I did ever saw the light of day. It was a frustrating experience, but something good came from it. One of the clients was a podiatrist in Colorado who I credit with convincing me to have the surgery, and he introduced me to a surgeon back home who did an amazing job, and left no visible scars. I had to move fast because my health insurance would cover the entire thing, but it was about to expire, so I just pulled the trigger. Five weeks later, I threw away the boot, got on a plane to Nashville, and went to Nostrville at Bitcoin Park. After that, I decided my next job would be in bitcoin, and it happened two months later.
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Ahhhh this reminds me of the old samurai “we’ll see” story. Life has a funny way of working out when your heart is in the right place. That’s a great story. I’m glad it all worked out for you. Bad toes = bad knees = bad hips = bad posture = bad shoulders etc etc etc. it all starts from the ground up.
Bad idea when it comes to the spine.
Be careful and I hope you find some relief. Dm sent with some ?s
Yes. Broken coccyx & lower spine issues …. For me, it was a deeper pinch than before. Physical therapy helped. The pain was horrific though. Our nerves are so strange. It must truly be specific to when and where they get pressure. Empathy my friend. Hope you find relief soon.
Thinking I’m gonna head to my PT and see what he can do for me. That sounds absolutely terrible
Hoping PT works out for you. It definitely helped me a lot. Physical pain can lead to mental issues & I don’t think society speaks about it enough … at least … well I was in the Army so it was very much “ PUSH THROUGH the pain “ kind of mentality sometimes. Not always: but enough. My point is there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting any therapy when needed. 🫂
That is 100% true and people underestimate this. I was back and forth on crutches for many years after a knee surgery. I became a miserable jerk. When ever step puts you in pain it becomes hard to be a positive person.
Sorry to hear. Back issues are no joke and very frustrating. A lot of times these issues arise from improper functioning hips. In men one side or both there is a lack of internal rotation but 🤷🏻♂️ I helped my back a lot by doing every hip exercises I could find also get your scapula to move properly is important. But ya, back issues suck.
This is mainly why I held out. I have really tight hips and a weird gait because of knee issues from the past. So I keep telling myself it’s a postural issue/hip hinge problem but man this feels like a musket ball wants to push itself through the skin of my back.
Dead hangs help my back issues, just hanging and breathing and relaxing my back muscles and letting it expand, and then very slowly adding pressure back not dropping down suddenly
You’re 100% right. Dead hangs are the start and finish of every workout for me. I probably should go to the gym even just to stretch out a bit. I haven’t really given myself a solid 2 weeks of no movement so I wanted to at least give it a shot