I have struggled from time to time with lower back issues for 30 years. I'm 63 and have been retired for 6 months.
About once a year, or every year and a half, I'll get a spell of a few days with lower back spasms, and just have to take a few days to chill. I have a few "go-to" positions that I can be comfortable in. I see a chiropractor, and am quite faithful with back stretching exercises, but eventually, it gets me.
So last week I felt it coming on. Took the Advil, stretched, saw the chiropractor. Felt great. Went to bed, woke up around 1AM to answer nature's call and WHAM, I got a pain from right butt cheek to right knee like nothing I've ever felt. It won't go away. I've been incapacitated now for nearly a week.
I don't think this one is going away without some intervention. I'm in pain, and worse, I'm scared.
I'm set up for an appointment on Wednesday at a pain intervention clinic. Normally they require a referral from the "primary", but I know a friend of one of the docs. Also, normally, they require an MRI. My chiropractor tried to get my insurance co (Excellus) to OK an MRI and they told him they wouldn't authorize an MRI unless I'd had 12 weeks of conservative therapy. How's that for a Catch 22. The pain clinic won't see me without an MRI, and my INSCO won't approve the MRI without 12 weeks of conservative therapy.
perfect.
About once a year, or every year and a half, I'll get a spell of a few days with lower back spasms, and just have to take a few days to chill. I have a few "go-to" positions that I can be comfortable in. I see a chiropractor, and am quite faithful with back stretching exercises, but eventually, it gets me.
So last week I felt it coming on. Took the Advil, stretched, saw the chiropractor. Felt great. Went to bed, woke up around 1AM to answer nature's call and WHAM, I got a pain from right butt cheek to right knee like nothing I've ever felt. It won't go away. I've been incapacitated now for nearly a week.
I don't think this one is going away without some intervention. I'm in pain, and worse, I'm scared.
I'm set up for an appointment on Wednesday at a pain intervention clinic. Normally they require a referral from the "primary", but I know a friend of one of the docs. Also, normally, they require an MRI. My chiropractor tried to get my insurance co (Excellus) to OK an MRI and they told him they wouldn't authorize an MRI unless I'd had 12 weeks of conservative therapy. How's that for a Catch 22. The pain clinic won't see me without an MRI, and my INSCO won't approve the MRI without 12 weeks of conservative therapy.
perfect.