I'm trying to determine the cause of a backache I've had for about a week now. I have a really crooked spine and two intravertebral hemangiomas, but the crookedness and the 'omas really haven't caused me to have backaches in the past.
It's in my lower back, across my pelvis and it's getting a little bit worse every day.
DH says it's from picking my 20+ lb. puppy up, but I rarely pick him up except on occasion to snuggle with him at night and I always lift him properly by bending at the knees.
The only thing I can relate to happening at about the same time I started having the backache is that I took another fall. I was trying to step over the puppy gate with the puppy in my arms and I tripped over the gate. I landed hard on my knees and left shoulder on a tile floor. As a new mother would roll if she fell holding her baby, I rolled and protected the puppy from harm.
I'm wondering if hitting the floor so hard with my knees could have jarred my pelvis somehow.
What say you?
I called the doctor's office today and made an appt. for Wednesday of next week, if I can stand it that long.
I know! It's one thing after another with me. I'm 47 and falling apart.
Saw the doctor today. My neck had started up last night giving me a migraine quality headache. This an old problem that hasn't bothered me in years. I don't know if it was set off by my lower back being in spasm for so long. I got a shot of steroids, x-rays from top (c-spine) to bottom (sacral spine) and an appointment to start physical therapy - heat, massage & TENS unit) next week. It'll probably be the beginning of the week before I hear on the x-rays. Dr's says he fairly certain I have a herniated disk in my neck, not sure what the deal is with my pelvis. Says surgery for the neck (ain't gonna happen) and no surgery for the lower back. Oh and he started me on another round of two different antibiotics for a throat/ear infection I've been fighting since the first of the year. I so hate my body!
It's in my lower back, across my pelvis and it's getting a little bit worse every day.
DH says it's from picking my 20+ lb. puppy up, but I rarely pick him up except on occasion to snuggle with him at night and I always lift him properly by bending at the knees.
The only thing I can relate to happening at about the same time I started having the backache is that I took another fall. I was trying to step over the puppy gate with the puppy in my arms and I tripped over the gate. I landed hard on my knees and left shoulder on a tile floor. As a new mother would roll if she fell holding her baby, I rolled and protected the puppy from harm.
I'm wondering if hitting the floor so hard with my knees could have jarred my pelvis somehow.
What say you?
I called the doctor's office today and made an appt. for Wednesday of next week, if I can stand it that long.
I know! It's one thing after another with me. I'm 47 and falling apart.
Saw the doctor today. My neck had started up last night giving me a migraine quality headache. This an old problem that hasn't bothered me in years. I don't know if it was set off by my lower back being in spasm for so long. I got a shot of steroids, x-rays from top (c-spine) to bottom (sacral spine) and an appointment to start physical therapy - heat, massage & TENS unit) next week. It'll probably be the beginning of the week before I hear on the x-rays. Dr's says he fairly certain I have a herniated disk in my neck, not sure what the deal is with my pelvis. Says surgery for the neck (ain't gonna happen) and no surgery for the lower back. Oh and he started me on another round of two different antibiotics for a throat/ear infection I've been fighting since the first of the year. I so hate my body!
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