Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[smkchick]

Carolyn, you are the bomb. My husband has back pain as well, I sent him your updated list and asked if he was sitting on his wallet. Is your husband a writer? I've been doing a lot of that lately I wonder if I need to reevaluate how I'm sitting at my desk.
All of you guys are so great, this really is the best place on the internet. We may not talk about chicken illnesses very often but it is a special place.
I am doing a little better but trying to get through to a physical therapist that can take me earlier, gotta love voice prompt menus.

Physical therapy is the best. It helped me so much with my shoulder. I was sorry when the visits ran out.

 

[Sallysec]

Very sad day today. Got a call from Loretta ~10 she was hysterical a fox killed 9 of her girls while she was at the gym. It was terrible I hope I never have to see anything like that again.

So sorry for her loss, that's got to be my biggest fear.

Mange rabies etc http://www.thefoxwebsite.org/disease/diseaserisks.html#q2

Gloves should be worn to handle anything that dies and the normal scrubbing and washing up any equipment used to remove dead animals.


Heather I hope your feeling better. We have a local chiropractor that everyone thinks is magic.
I've had three surgeries on my back and I basically have found nothing to work with all my pain. My husband swears by the same movements that Carolyn described...he is able to pop his own back and adjust himself. My sister has that TENS machine as well. Hopefully something brings you some relief as it seems like a lot of us know that pain and how horrible it is. I use a lot of hot showers and massage helps to make it bare able...I also use pain patches and oral pain medications for bad flare ups....the weather sucks for this...makes me miss summer already.
Feel better soon

 

[Imprfctme]

I'm self-soothing with a pint of Ben & Jerry's and watching Nova. Sitting still sucks. Argh! Hope I can drive tomorrow morning. Thanks for the stretching exercise Carolyn it helped.

 

[Imprfctme]

Sally that sounds like you've had mor than your fair share.

 

[Sallysec]

I'm self-soothing with a pint of Ben & Jerry's and watching Nova. Sitting still sucks. Argh! Hope I can drive tomorrow morning. Thanks for the stretching exercise Carolyn it helped.

Ben n Jerry are better than a prescription lol

 

[smkchick]

Last night I dreamed I was at someone's house and my chickens got in and were all over the place! I kept rounding them up and they kept getting away from me. Paging Dr. Freud...

 

[Cheeky Chick]

Last night I dreamed I was at someone's house and my chickens got in and were all over the place! I kept rounding them up and they kept getting away from me. Paging Dr. Freud...

It might have been my house-it looks like it's been taken over by an ARMY of chickens, or children...

 

[JerseyHen]

Oh man I like to think I am tough but I am coming apart at the seams. I have some sort of pinched nerve in my back that I thought was getting better but woke me at 3:30am in stabbing pain. I am wide awake and experiencing pain going from arm/fingertip to down my back/butt/leg. This is bad, really bad.

I took a painkiller and last of my steroid course but it's still throbbing. Should I go back to the ortho and ask for an MRI? Plus I messed up my wrist with all the pumpkin peeling. Halp!

Heather, that is miserable. I hate to contradict your doc, but the sciatic nerve only exists in the leg. It is the largest nerve in the body and runs from the posterior pelvis down the back of the leg, its branches providing sensory and motor (muscle) innervation to the leg. The arm is a different set of nerves. Could be a similar mechanism though (overdoing it). Call me if you want me to try to isolate the exact issue for you (no promises, but since I teach neuromusculoskeletal diagnosis I am generally pretty close).

I didn't know all of you had so much trouble with your backs. Should I have a "back school" class for chicken people? I don't have an east coast chiropractic license (well, I have a PA license, but since I never practiced there I let it go inactive). I kept my CA license since I teach at a university there, but that doesn't stop me from having instructional sessions. I also can get doctors prices on the tens units if anyone wants one (also, analgesic rubs, braces, vitamins, herbs, etc...). If I ever get around to getting my NY license I will fix all of you up.

Oh no! How awful! Please tell her not to pick up the dead birds with her bare hands!!!! Christine had a terrible fox problem this summer. Make sure no pets or people come in contact with the dead birds! Someone chime in here as to why - rabies? I can't rmember exactly.

Yes, that was the issue. Rabies. Don't touch them if the fox may have mouthed them. I lost 7 to a fox this spring/summer. Then to add insult to injury we had to go through the rabies scare.

 

[Imprfctme]

Quote: Heather, that is miserable. I hate to contradict your doc, but the sciatic nerve only exists in the leg. It is the largest nerve in the body and runs from the posterior pelvis down the back of the leg, its branches providing sensory and motor (muscle) innervation to the leg. The arm is a different set of nerves. Could be a similar mechanism though (overdoing it). Call me if you want me to try to isolate the exact issue for you (no promises, but since I teach neuromusculoskeletal diagnosis I am generally pretty close).

I didn't know all of you had so much trouble with your backs. Should I have a "back school" class for chicken people? I don't have an east coast chiropractic license (well, I have a PA license, but since I never practiced there I let it go inactive). I kept my CA license since I teach at a university there, but that doesn't stop me from having instructional sessions. I also can get doctors prices on the tens units if anyone wants one (also, analgesic rubs, braces, vitamins, herbs, etc...). If I ever get around to getting my NY license I will fix all of you up.
Quote: Yes, that was the issue. Rabies. Don't touch them if the fox may have mouthed them. I lost 7 to a fox this spring/summer. Then to add insult to injury we had to go through the rabies scare.

To be fair to my doctors, I don't know that I was listening too well. I went to the physical therapist today, she was very nice and I have a better sense of what is going on. The leg thing is different than the wrist thing but as you say, related - overuse. You are so kind to offer to help out but I'm sure you have enough to do with the show this weekend. I am booked up with appointments up here for now. Here's the sign that was on the door of the clinic this morning:

 

[Imprfctme]

Hey what happend with that mystery pot? Any news?