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[BrokenBiker]

All was going well...new table frame tacked up, mostly welded out...crouched down to weld underneath one of the joints and my back has given out.

I have spasms occasionally and a perpetual lower back ache from years of being stupid but this is the first time its actually gone completely. Lost feeling in my legs resulting in landing in a heap on the floor, luckily without the upended table coming with me. Feeling came back as soon as i hit the floor, I assume because I straightened out a bit...

Managed to make it back inside to get my phone so now waiting for a lift to a hospital which will inevitably involve 12 hours on a plastic chair to be told the x-ray is fully booked...

 

[Migmac]

All was going well...new table frame tacked up, mostly welded out...crouched down to weld underneath one of the joints and my back has given out.

I have spasms occasionally and a perpetual lower back ache from years of being stupid but this is the first time its actually gone completely. Lost feeling in my legs resulting in landing in a heap on the floor, luckily without the upended table coming with me. Feeling came back as soon as i hit the floor, I assume because I straightened out a bit...

Managed to make it back inside to get my phone so now waiting for a lift to a hospital which will inevitably involve 12 hours on a plastic chair to be told the x-ray is fully booked...

Not so good, can feel your pain.

 

[gaz1]

my father had roughly the same issue he had to sleep on a solid matress and roll out of bed

on bad days his back played up badly couldnt bend over something as stupid as trying to grab a foam square put his back out on good days his back was fine

he went through fitting a plyboard under the matress so make the matress more solid

doing away with the divan sort of bed frame and going for a pine slat bed fitted with a plyboard is an alternative for a solid bed frame

hope you get your back sorted as it wasnt any fun with him when it happened

 

[BrokenBiker]

my father had roughly the same issue he had to sleep on a solid matress and roll out of bed

on bad days his back played up badly couldnt bend over something as stupid as trying to grab a foam square put his back out on good days his back was fine

he went through fitting a plyboard under the matress so make the matress more solid

doing away with the divan sort of bed frame and going for a pine slat bed fitted with a plyboard is an alternative for a solid bed frame

hope you get your back sorted as it wasnt any fun with him when it happened

Thanks. I have a relatively firm mattress as is, and a solid bed frame.

Work is a bit of an issue regarding my back as i can spend anything up to 10 hours sat in the same position and cant get out and stretch with a load hanging in the air, especially if people are working around it. I've had a lot of days like that this year, then on a day off I get all these ideas about making stuff, lifting stuff and moving things.

I've managed to stand up and go for a wash, and answer the door to the conveniently timed post man with my anvil. Just waiting on the mother to come and ferry me to a&e as I refuse to waste an ambulance when im not bleeding all over the place

 

[Porkypine]

That's a proper bummer mate, sounds like the sitting 10 hours in one position thing is the ongoing killer there tbh.
Hope you can get some sort of joy out of A&E anyway, all the best...

 

[Blue Chips]

All was going well...new table frame tacked up, mostly welded out...crouched down to weld underneath one of the joints and my back has given out.

I can relate to that. After decades of over-estimating my own strength and not always lifting things properly, I've had a multitude of back issues. Some odd twist or change in position might lay me out flat on my back for several days at a time. That said, my back has been better for the last ten years or more (maybe there are no more discs left to crush?). I've lost about an inch and a half in height over the years due to back issues.

I hope it goes well for you!

 

[BrokenBiker]

So...seen triage...didn't really seem bothered that I can't take more than 3 steps without needing to brace against something and that the top of my legs alternate from aching to pins and needles, and my feet tingle...general consensus is a doctor will see me at some point but because it wasn't the result of a fall there likely wont be any x ray, just an appointment for physio...

 

[roofman]

lost your legs, just hope its not the T5 vertibrae thats slipped out. smashed mine in my roof fall last year and still have no feeling on the skin of my legs, can walk and work ok now but just numb leg skin. Consultant says i was so close to a wheelchair for life. hope you recover soon mate

 

[BrokenBiker]

lost your legs, just hope its not the T5 vertibrae thats slipped out. smashed mine in my roof fall last year and still have no feeling on the skin of my legs, can walk and work ok now but just numb leg skin. Consultant says i was so close to a wheelchair for life. hope you recover soon mate

I'm hopeful that the loss of feeling was only a reaction to the sudden pain. It came back virtually instantly so praying its not a symptom of something worse.

I went best part of 10 years with no sensation in my left hand after bike crash so know how you feel with the loss of sensation, its a very weird thing to get used to

 

[More Amps]

I would strongly suggest making an appointment with a chiropractor. From experience they can work wonders by making sure the whole back is in the correct alignment - I had severe back pain (lower back) it turned out to be caused by a trapped.nerve in my neck
I now pay a visit a couple of times a year just to try and nip amything in the bud.

 

[charlysays]

All was going well...new table frame tacked up, mostly welded out...crouched down to weld underneath one of the joints and my back has given out.

I have spasms occasionally and a perpetual lower back ache from years of being stupid but this is the first time its actually gone completely. Lost feeling in my legs resulting in landing in a heap on the floor, luckily without the upended table coming with me. Feeling came back as soon as i hit the floor, I assume because I straightened out a bit...

Managed to make it back inside to get my phone so now waiting for a lift to a hospital which will inevitably involve 12 hours on a plastic chair to be told the x-ray is fully booked...

Hope you recover soon mate. An inversion table is a good thing to work up to using if you have a disc issue. The fact you've lost feeling in your legs is something to really emphasise though as it might require an emergency operation. Ask them to assess you for cauda equina and don't be fobbed off.

 

[brightspark]

So...seen triage...didn't really seem bothered that I can't take more than 3 steps without needing to brace against something and that the top of my legs alternate from aching to pins and needles, and my feet tingle...general consensus is a doctor will see me at some point but because it wasn't the result of a fall there likely wont be any x ray, just an appointment for physio...

and thats a total waste of time ive had full scans done and should have an op but i wont . had a shunt in my van some knob ran in to the back of me at over 30mph and wrote van off . they have sent me for physio 6 visits so far just giving me an exercise chart and a few prods and a rub cream then a so called specialist doc who pronounced me to be fit and well in a a few weeks time just go through the motions and get to see the specialist without being fobbed off, tell em about the pins and needles and numbness and also tell em you p.issed yourself and they take it more serious . i was told to go strait in if it happened

 

[RWD3M]

All was going well...new table frame tacked up, mostly welded out...crouched down to weld underneath one of the joints and my back has given out.

I have spasms occasionally and a perpetual lower back ache from years of being stupid but this is the first time its actually gone completely. Lost feeling in my legs resulting in landing in a heap on the floor, luckily without the upended table coming with me. Feeling came back as soon as i hit the floor, I assume because I straightened out a bit...

Managed to make it back inside to get my phone so now waiting for a lift to a hospital which will inevitably involve 12 hours on a plastic chair to be told the x-ray is fully booked...

Oh man, that's bad news.

I've battled L4/5 disc issues for nearly 30 years so I really do feel (have felt!) your pain.

Rest, pain relief and getting mobile are what help me.

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

 

[BrokenBiker]

Oh man, that's bad news.

I've battled L4/5 disc issues for nearly 30 years so I really do feel (have felt!) your pain.

Rest, pain relief and getting mobile are what help me.

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Rest is definitely on the cards...I wasn't going to come in as i hobbled into the house and lay down on the sofa and was OK...then I tried to move and it was agony.

Still waiting at the moment, in a wheelchair that may as well be made from ply wood and brick for how uncomfortable it is, but atleast im sat down.

Ache in the legs is getting steadily worse but no one seemed to be concerned when I mentioned it

 

[BrokenBiker]

Work have given me tomorrow as a work from home day, was meant to be on a course but they have arranged for my to do it via zoom now as I'd rather not cancel it, been waiting a while to get on it as it is.

 

[frank horton]

sorry to hear about that....
I'm falling apart need to loose 5kgs....
need a new knee...
shoulders r junk and lower back pain as well....
then today the consultant phoned to say I need an op on my heart.....
so decided to take up some exersise, TAI Chi or start with a chair work out for the over 70's....
anyone had a go ????
got 6 months to get fitter....

 

[roofman]

If you have spare money tucked away then go and have a Ct scan at spires murryfield before you start getting stretched and pulled by a back doctor..think the private scan is about £550 and mine saved my life when i had bladder cancer, money well spent in mine and your case.

 

[BrokenBiker]

If you have spare money tucked away then go and have a Ct scan at spires murryfield before you start getting stretched and pulled by a back doctor..think the private scan is about £550 and mine saved my life when i had bladder cancer, money well spent in mine and your case.

Good to know, will look into that once im out of here... there is a chance of one here but ill not hold my breath

 

[knighty]

go get it checked

I ignored mine and powered through for years, decided to get it checked (spire, Washington)

had it checked and.... it's pretty much knackered, should have had it checked years ago

I've been told no heavy lifting for 3 or 4 years, no sitting, no twisting

I tried physio before going to spire, phisio exercises were all twisting - doc said that's the worst thing I can do

it was £250 first visit, 3175 per visit after,
£800 mri - I was in the machine an hour so probably got my monies worth
going back for 4 injections into my back which is £1400

bit spendy when you look at it like that, but... by the sounds of it I'd have been crippled if I ignored it

EDIT:

what they said about me...

1. Bilateral lumbosacral pain and lower lumbar pain.
2. The patient, 9 years ago, had an accident in which he fell from a height of 20 feet, landing
on his head and shoulder and was informed that he may have had 4 vertebral injuries.
3. MRI scan shows at L5/S1, the patient has severe degenerative disc disease of grade 4 to
grade 5 with severe acute Modic changes seen in the STIR sequence. There is also
some high signal within the disc on the left-hand side, but the endplate appears to be
reasonably preserved. There is moderate facet joint arthritis with some hypertrophy, with
lateral recess and foraminal narrowing bilaterally touching the S1 and the L5 nerve root.
4. At L4/5, the patient has grade 4 degenerative disc disease with a Schmorl’s node and
chronic Modic changes. There is a triangular configuration of the spinal canal with some
foraminal and lateral recess narrowing.
5. MRI scan of the thoracic spine shows the patient has a small disc bulge on the left at T6/7
and on the right at T7/8. There are small atypical haemangiomas in the T3, T8 and L1
vertebral bodies. There appear to be degenerative changes in the costovertebral joints,
more on the left side at T3 and on the right at T9, with bilateral facet joint arthritis noted in
the lower thoracic spine. The patient says that he had rib fractures previously and this
could be secondary to that injury

 

[BrokenBiker]

Well...4.5 hours in and ive been given 2 paracetamol...now back to waiting