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[Turbo]

so...it has now been a week to the day, infact a week to the hour that i arrived at a&e, and im not entirely sure how to explain this...but im fine today...well maybe fine is the wrong word, but...

i had a relatively bad night last night as i have now also contracted a cold, so coughing kept me up, and every cough tweaked my back...ended up with a hot water bottle under my back and that seemed to help me get off to sleep, along with some cough medicine and a glass of bourbon.

now, ive woken up today and initally felt like i wasnt going to be able to get out of bed, however after realising i was very hungry i made the effort and it wasnt nearly as bad as it has been to sit then stand from the bed...got dressed, came donwstairs with no real pain at all. ive sat on the sofa for a bit and then decided to do some exercises, except it wasnt until i was up and halfway to the kitchen i realised not only did it not hurt, i was walking normally as well, back straight, no limp, no lean to the side as i have had previously. im still carrying a stick with me just in case, but so far so good, ive not needed it.

now, tell me off as much as you want, but going stir crazy in the house and now my new found ability to walk normally again, ive been out to the shed just now. the half welded table that i am blaming for this whole thing is still stood on end outside the shed doors, half rusted and after shaking the grinder at it a few times i think it has learnt its lesson now...but the reason i went out, apart from the fact i needed to get out, was becasue i just needed to know that things i have bought are going to work before its too late to send them back. so, i lit the forge, placed the anvil near it and chucked a bit of mild steel in. one of the things i wanted to test was a new thermocouple that claims to read up to 1300C...and i can confirm it does...the temp in the non flame areas of the forge read at 899-908C consistently, and the flame area read at 1350C...so, when the steel was about the same colour as the inside of the forge i assumed it to be about 900 degrees, took it out and gave it a leathering on the anvil with a lump hammer, and would you believe it, it actually deformed the way i would expect it to. gave it a second heat and then flattened it back out a bit, quenched it and then packed up as i didnt want to over do anything.

the other small bonus is that i have seen that i only had 4 welds left on the table, and they can all be done with the table in its normal orientation with no bending, twitsting or being out of position (which if id taken 10 seconds to look at it last week, i wouldnt be in this position now) so when i am fully ready for that, its getting a going over with a wire wheel and a paint prep wheel, a coat of orwell blue and then being thrown into place. ive sprayed it down with some light oil for now to hopefully keep the rust from getting worse.

but most importantly, i feel much better for having half hour with a hammer in my hand and being outside in fresh air

Is there a chance that this back pain could be stress related?
It's strange that you are good one day and sore the next.
The diazepam messes your head around quite a lot and you will feel worse when you come off them.

I know any day my head isn't right my pains and aches are 10x worse.

 

[Mr Roo]

@BrokenBiker you need to see a physio with a bit more nous than the usual (these days they seem to have about the same qualifications as a pure gym “personal trainer”)

I snapped ACL, MCL and meniscus in my right knee, 2021. 8 weeks later, massive back spasm. 10 days on diazepam, stretches, all good.

Rinse repeat about 8 or 9 times over the past few years; random attacks with a right-sided muscle spasm that had me totally debilitated and when i could walk, I was making Quasimodo look like the Straightback of Notre Dame by comparison.

Happened again about two months ago, and I messaged a fella I know who is more of a physiologist than a physiotherapist. He spots a couple of issues and works his way around.

Ever since that appointment, i’ve been walking completely different; my back has had less tension in it; my stance has changed.

My gammy knee had caused a forward tilt in my right hip. That forward tilt meant my glute (‘arris cheek for the rest of you..) was compressed, along with the muscles at my lower back. The way he explained it was that my hip pushing forward on that one side (anterior pelvic tilt) was preventing my lower back and my glute from stretching in normal activity, so when i had a minor strain that wouldn’t normally affect me, the muscles were over-reacting and locking in place because they’re never being stretched.

I’ll send over a couple of videos shortly that he gave me for exercises to try and keep it balanced in future.

 

[Robotstar5]

It's impressive what the experts can spot, I was at the Chiropodist and he asked if I had back problems as he noticed I wasn't walking normally, he got me an appointment at a bio-mechanics clinic where they fitted me with some orthotic inserts which cured the back problems!

 

[BrokenBiker]

My gammy knee

I have one of those...in 2008 I pulled ACL off at both ends and my kneecap severed the PCL (they think i landed knee first)...been battling with it ever since...that is definitely something i will bring up once ive had a CT and stsrt looking for people to sort me out

 

[BrokenBiker]

So, update time and now it get unclear whether its the back or just my previous life had me beheading royalty...

I now have the worst cold I have encountered in at least the last 10 years.

So im back to hobbling about, but its now my entire body that aches from my eyelids down.

No sleep last night. Ended up on the sofa because every time I lay down in bed, within 2 minutes I was coughing so hard I couldn't breath...baby went to school at half 8 with a friend of my mrs so I went back to bed, just got up again now, feel like death but need to try and loosen up a bit so some slow exercises and then try and stay active for a bit

 

[Morris]

It may not be a cold, there's a nasty virus going around that is almost Covid like but it's not. I had it after getting home from The Nene Valley Rock Festival. It's still lingering.

 

[Farside]

Do take the time to think thing through and plan ahead for your family and finances .no more heavy lifting , twisting with a weight in both hands ,

I know exactly what you mean, today.
My back's been dodgy for years, but I usually recognise the signs and ease up, or even quit for the day.
Not today, it was quite all right, but I did something I don't normally do, twisting with a heavy weight in both hands, and stooped over, stupid bastid.
(it was that fecking engine crane that I got two years ago but finally got around to putting together this week).
Still, the crane is now finished, if I can use it.

 

[BrokenBiker]

It may not be a cold, there's a nasty virus going around that is almost Covid like but it's not. I had it after getting home from The Nene Valley Rock Festival. It's still lingering.

That sounds like it could be what ive got...I had covid twice and its not a patch on this