I've had a lot of experience with back issues. I've had compressed discs, muscle issues, and nerve issues. The good news is that there are things you can do to help, the bad news is that most of them take time. One key piece is figuring out what's making it happen. Possible culprits include, but are not limited to, stress, bad desk chair position, bad bed, lack of sleep, or exercise based pull. From what I've read of you lately, I'd suggest that stress combined with bad work position and/or bad bed are probably your culprits. Changing these things will help. Adding certain stretches to life will help. Hot baths will help. The biggest helpful thing that you can start right away and costs you no money, would be to wake up tomorrow and do 10 minutes of careful stretching right in your bed before even sitting up. (Having your back muscles loose before you start putting the day's demands on them helps TONS) Then, when you do go to sit up, don't sit directly up, but rather roll onto your side, then your front, and basically do a careful
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I consulted with sabrielrose, who's on her way to a medical degree (and fortunately does not seem to mind me importuning her with odd questions every now and again) and she thinks I did something to it whilst sleeping last night which was then aggravated by the terrible chair at work.
I'm heat-padding it and we'll hope that does something. If it doesn't get fixed in the next few days, I have a physical therapy appointment on Monday for a different issue, so perhaps they can poke at that as well.
It's strange, because I usually carry stress either right under my shoulderblades, or where neck meets shoulder. If that were the case I could make sad eyes at one of the roommies until I hit upon a successful bribe for back rub. (Also I'm far more used to that kind of pain than this.) This is more like something in the back of my hip - in that area between waist and the top of one's rear end, and it hurts when I sit up straight or when I walk.
Heating pad is making it somewhat better, though :) And I will definitely try stretches tomorrow.
I've managed to put my hip out of place just subtly enough that it messed up all the muscle areas that you're talking about. Perhaps that's your issue. I found a great massage guy who knew how to pop it back in. It was near orgasmic when the pain suddenly cut from full force to just a tiny bit.
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I'm heat-padding it and we'll hope that does something. If it doesn't get fixed in the next few days, I have a physical therapy appointment on Monday for a different issue, so perhaps they can poke at that as well.
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Heating pad is making it somewhat better, though :) And I will definitely try stretches tomorrow.
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