White belt here. I have been out of the sport for several years and I decided to come back.
3rd day of training, 5 minute no-gi round with someone about 20 pounds heavier than me. They got me in full mount and I bridged as hard as I could to make some space. I could immediately tell something was wrong.
Just got back from the ortho, and after an x-ray showing a compression fracture of my 5th lumbar, I have to rest for 2 weeks, come back for another X-ray, then start physical therapy.
Hurts real bad. Maybe I’ll stick with yoga. BJJ hates me.
Trigger warning: She dated a 14 year old, but I'm only going to discuss that in the last paragraph as I'm triggered by it right now.
Back in June, that thing (formerly known as mother) slipped off her toilet and broke her L5 vertebra, crawling with her pants around her ankles to her phone to call... Her brother, who put her to bed. She eventually got actual doctors, and has been in a rehab facility for that ever since.
So. I'm in America and trapped here for a while. Not an ideal situation, coming over, but my mental health was tanking, and my Just Yes in-laws have a large farmhouse. I've been avoiding people as much as possible since, but did stop by my sister's this week with the fiancè.
While here, we went to mum's house while it was unoccupied. Found a shrine to me, with all the photos of myself as a child I had thought forever lost. Now claimed, of course. I grabbed my scouting stuff, found a letter inviting me to MIT (as in the university) that she hid from me, grabbed a few things from the remaining hoards.... Discovered she had given my Atari away to a boyfriend (Kept: literal thousands of clothes. Given away: Vintage gaming systems of mine. Of course.) Grabbed some cute California Plant Protection statues she had had under a couch for twenty-five years, some music I had written, and the measuring cups I learned to cook with. Botched about her with my sister. Shared my posts with her.
And, Okay, yeah, I'm burying the lead, but I really want to.I just learned about that trigger warning yesterday. And it's making a whole host of already creepy behaviours seem a hell of a lot more sinister in retrospect. I'm not ready to process that. Yeah. And in the process of notching about her with my sister, I learned That Thing, a.k.a. NoWait dated a fourteen year old once Oh, and she apparently also had parents of an under-eighteen teenager coming to her work to tell her to stay away from their child. And apparently did her innocent old lady act and just had to do counselling. Probably a proof issue. So all the weird sexual stuff? Creeping in on my fiancé in the shower? Sneaking up to my room and bursting in when I was a teenager? Insisting I show her my pubic bush when she f it at got a glimpse when she walked in on me in the bath? The whole "I've seen it when you were a baby" thing? Much, much worse.
TL;DR: Constant pain, physiotherapist gave me the crack, very satisfying, am happy, gonna have a life again.
I cannot really express the relief and anger I feel. For more than three years I had issues with my lower back. It started with me not being able to move in certain directions anymore. When I asked my doc, he said that was normal, I was just getting old or whatever. (I was 18 back then!) One year ago, the pain started. I could not sit for more than 30 mins at a time. We tried all the chairs, nothing worked. I got foot orthotics, didn't help. Physiotherapy didn't help. I stopped playing volleyball and instead learned proper swimmig technique. Swimming helped a bit, but only temporarily. Then, the injuries started. There were at least ten of them: I bent over, and pain shot through my entire body. I could not stand, sit, or sleep for at least a day when this happened; I was forced to just lie in bed and cry. The pain was terrible. Moreover, I was scared that I might need surgery because so many people who had surgery said it only made their problems worse.
I cannot describe how much my life has changed during the last three years. Everything I did revolved around not making my back worse. I did not go out because I could not sit or stand for any longer than an hour at best. Going to lectures at my university was making everything so much worse, so I basically only did a minimum of what I was required to, even though I love my studies to death! I went swimming at least every second day, but I couldn't go there by bus because sitting. I ate dinner standing in the kitchen, not being able to sit down with my boyfriend. It took so much time from me. My entire energy was drained from dealing with the pain on a daily basis. I lost weight and my friends said I looked miserable.
A few months ago, I found out that my spinal disc was damaged and bulged. I wanted to cry. How did this happen? What did I do wrong?! The doc prescribed another round of physiotherapy. I was supposed to build muscle to help support my lower back. Like I didn't already to this shit every day of my life!!!
My (new) physiotherapist, however, had different plans. In the first session, he noticed from the way that I lifted my legs that I had, what he called, a "blockage". It wasn't an actual blockage, he said - just a malposition of my vertebra. Instead of mainly building muscle, I got three sessions of massages and had to do a certain kind of stretch at home. After my fourth session of
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Anyone? I've been confused about this all year.
I'm 6'0" weighing around 280-290 lbs. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a sturdy and long enough cane to help?
https://imgur.com/a/IP1Mh3f https://imgur.com/a/b07sCek
This x-ray highlights the issue our vet identified as being the likely source of immense pain and immobility for Benny, our 6 month old male German Shepherd. No other issues were found in any of the other x-rays.
The vet was unable to determine if the misplacement of this fragment was caused by trauma or some sort of genetic issue.
The entire episode occurred roughly over a 12 day period. Benny developed a limp but he remained active. His limp and accompanying pain got progressively worse over the next several days. At one point after being given Rimadyl he was running around as though there were no issues. We suspected panosteitis but this was ruled out. The pain eventually rendered him immobile and yelping in pain with even the slightest movement. He was given numerous pain killers that did not seem to help, and neither did local anesthesia.
Our vet felt that surgery was a possible option but that it may not have fixed the issue, and that he would need months of rehabilitation and physical therapy. Unfortunately this option was time and cost prohibitive, and we all concurred that euthanasia was the most humane and sensible course of action.
Curiosity driven by a desire for some closure on behalf of myself and my girlfriend prompted me to post this today. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Benny with his favorite toy: https://imgur.com/a/0CqPuK7
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4cYt5Sg3g4/
Years ago I got a lumbar puncture to help test my bad headaches I was getting. The lumbar puncture was done poorly and caused a leak in my spinal cord. Because of that I had to go back to the hospital and get a blood patch. After receiving the blood patch my skull suddenly felt like it was ripping apart at the seams. I was writhing and screaming on the medical bed, clawing the mattress, begging for someone to DO SOMETHING and nurses were just walking past ignoring me. Or when they did talk to me, they asked "What do you want me to do for you? You need to stop screaming..."
Naturally I told them I wanted them to do something about the pain! Fucking duh! This wasn't right. But they never did. I sobbed and screamed and clawed at my head for hours in the worst agony of my life. And when I went home I was so sick I couldn't sit up without projectile vomiting all over the house. It took days to recover from that blood patch. I still don't quite understand what went wrong but I know that I will never be able to handle that kind of pain ever again. For years after getting the blood patch if anyone were to touch my back in the area where the lumbar puncture was performed I would start wiggling and crying. Not because the area hurt but because it twisted my soul and made me feel sudden creepiness and panic that I can't explain.
So my question, is should I be concerned about an epidural? Especially knowing that I have twisted vertebrae in my neck? Is this something I should even consider getting? If there is even a minor risk of getting a headache like that again, I'd rather feel the full sensation of my vagina ripping in half.
Any insight would be my savior here. I plan to ask my doctor but I keep forgetting.
Pathologies and associated problems Back pain. It is defined as a localized pain most often originating in the spine and generally affecting the muscle groups surrounding it. Low back pain is localized pain in the lumbar region. Sciatica, characterized by pain starting in the lower back and extending into the leg. Common, they are due to compression of the sciatic nerve, which can sometimes be caused by the lumbar vertebrae. Different pathologies can be at the origin of these pains
Also is this why the lumbar and sacral vertebrae have more gray matter than white matter? The whole thing is a complete jumbled up mess in my head.
Because of this, I feel pain in the lower back when I try to do some pelvic movements and also while shifting weight from one leg to the other, a lot of stiffness around the SI Joint and hip region. Also when I palpate around L5-S1 with my fingers, I feel a little bit of pain around the vertebras.
I am 25 years old. It has been more than 1 year since I have been facing these issues but I underwent the MRI scan last month so I came to know about this lumbarization issue recently. I also do yoga regularly.
Any help or advice from anyone?
I already know how to identify the atlas and the axis, but I would really appreciate some pointers on how to identify the various vertebrae. As an anatomy student advice regarding human vertebrae would be the most practical. Thank you in advance for your time.
https://imgur.com/a/IP1Mh3f https://imgur.com/a/b07sCek
This x-ray highlights the issue our vet identified as being the likely source of immense pain and immobility for Benny, our 6 month old German Shepherd. No other issues were found in any of the other x-rays.
The vet was unable to determine if the misplacement of this fragment was caused by trauma or some sort of genetic issue.
The entire episode occurred roughly over a 12 day period. Benny developed a limp but he remained active. His limp and accompanying pain got progressively worse over the next several days. At one point after being given Rimadyl he was running around as though there were no issues. We suspected panosteitis but this was ruled out. The pain eventually rendered him immobile and yelping in pain with even the slightest movement. He was given numerous pain killers that did not seem to help, and neither did local anesthesia.
Our vet felt that surgery was a possible option but that it may not have fixed the issue, and that he would need months of rehabilitation and physical therapy. Unfortunately this option was time and cost prohibitive, and we all concurred that euthanasia was the most humane and sensible course of action.
Curiosity driven by a desire for some closure on behalf of myself and my girlfriend prompted me to post this today. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Benny with his favorite toy: https://imgur.com/a/0CqPuK7
