So here’s my story, if you can, please recommend either a specific brace or a type that I should look into
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I have pretty bad(7-8/10) lower back pain, and mild(5-6/10) pain in the rest of my back(mostly just spine, although it’s more to the right side in my lower back)….and I saw an urgent care doctor since it was still open when I got off work and no regular doctors seem to have openings anyways.
They prescribed me ultram(which I couldn’t take due to drug interactions), then changed it to vicodin(5/500) and ibuprofen(800mg), that wasn’t enough so they moved me up to Norco(10/325), when I said that wasn’t enough they moved me down to tylenol #3…
they said that’s the highest they can prescribe, and like I said no other doctors have openings for at least a month
went to a physical therapist and did their exercises for a while with no improvement, so I stopped.
then I went to a chiropractor and he took x-rays and said I have mild scoliosis, my head is pushed forward too much and my shoulders are pushed back, I have subluxation throughout my back in various places, the bottom curve of my back is too extreme, while the curve in my neck is non existent.
please help me, I need any ideas of how to make the pain stop
I can’t afford the ER for a prescription, and I’m hoping a brace will not only fix my posture, but relieve me of the pain
I was at my softball tournament today, and I was up to bat when I swung, and after I swung, I could tell that I did something to my shoulder and neck.
The far left of my right shoulder blade is very sore and continues to be sore up to my neck. Whenever I turn my head, nod my head, roll my shoulders, or try to sit back it hurts a lot.
i was doing my warm up set at the gym on bench press (light weight).. during it , i felt a pain in my right shoulder that was very sharp so i racked the weight. its been hurting for about 3 weeks now. it hurts when i lift my arm straight forward or to the side. it affects my sleeping because i wake up in the middle of the night because of the pain, and also when i write when a pencil or pen my shoulder is in pain. what should i do to heal it and can i still work out other muscles at the gym that dont involve shoulders? (biceps for example)
I have been experiencing bad pain from my left shoulder to my neck for a few years now. It is usually worst from the base of my skull to the base of my nexk on the left side, restricting my head movement. As well, my left shoulder joint hurts and feels loose, espesciall when I am exercising it. I am a competitive rugby player, and have played a variety of contact sports, and have injured my neck and shoulders before on many occasions, though I have not sought treatment (typical bonehead teenager decision). I worry that I may have partially separated my shoulder at some point, and that that is what is causing my pains. Also, I have some narrow disks in my spine, and am usually plagued with lower back pain. What can I do to lessen or alleviate my shoulder and neck pain? Thanks
I was diagnosed with tendonitis with impingement in both of my shoulders. So far I’ve had 2 rounds of physical therapy, 3 cortisone shots, and 1 round of oral steriods. I’m still in extreme pain. What else can be done? My neck and upperback are starting to hurt as well. I’ve been taking naproxen not helping. All started about two months ago, continuing to get worse.
Both thighs and shoulders have pain which comes and goes, what could it be, and how can it be treated? It seems also cold and humid weather make it worse. I have tried ibuprofen, aspirin, but they seem to be bandaid solutions. Sometimes I feel happy it is all gone, only for the pain to come back again! Please help me with ideas
Ok, here is my situation that I never thought would ever be. I have been with my primary doctor for about 12 years now, and I thought she knew me well. I even thought of her as more of a friend. Over the last 3 years, I started having some major problems with my lower back, shoulders, and neck. So she set me up with a mri which did show a bulging disc. She sent me to physical therapy, and the shock treatment really helped, she also prescribed hydrocodone 5 that I had only had to take for a month, because I responded well with therapy. So about a year goes by and not having that much pain, I could take over the counter meds to suppress it. Then like lightning it strikes again. This time it gets so bad that my leg gives out on me and hurts. I can’t sleep for days, and only certain things I did could give enough relief to where I was not screaming in pain. So I go back to her with all of this and she sets up another mri, which then shows two bulging disc and a hurniated disc. She again prescribes the same pain med and sets me up with the physical therapy which I am excited for because it helped before. This time it did not, and the therapyst said that my pelvic joint was popping out of my hip joint. So my doctor prescribes me a long acting pain med named kadian. I took it and it made me itch bad, so she prescribed claritin to help with the itch. Umm, needless to say, I will always have scars on my chest from digging. So she then started me on 20m of oxycontin for two weeks, and 40m for the next two weeks. It was amazing relief after the puking for a couple days. I am amazed on what I can do now that I have not been able to do for a while. So the refill time comes and no problems I get my refill. About three weeks later, I find out that a family member is dying of cancer in another state and he was refusing hospice so it was up to us family members to go take care of him in his final days. So my turn of course was up and I call the office the day before leaving to see if they can send my prescription to me when it was due to be filled. Mind you I was without a vehicle this day and in a hurry to get things ready to leave. They tell me that they can not do that, and I said well, that is ok because I have to come back to the state for my bone scan anyway and I would just drive the extra 2 hours back home to see them. My doctor calls back and says I need to come in for a pill count. I had no problem with that other than I had no vehicle, and not ride and they closed in 2 hours, and I was told that she would not longer prescribe them unless I came in that day. She then tells me that I could come in the following day before leaving. I said ok that is fine I will just have my ride swing me by. Well low and behold that night we get a call for all family members to come immediately, my uncle was not going to make it through the night. We all left within an hour, me not thinking twice, just knowing that my doctor would understand. So after the funeral and all, I come back home, and call my doctor and explain, she said that is fine I understand. So, I get my next refill on the 12th of June. I had an appointment to go back to my neurosurgeon yesterday to read my results which quite frankly was devistating to me. Basically I have bad joints, degenerative disc disease, and my bone scan made me light up like a christmas tree. So I drive home crying most of the way. I look on my calendar and see where I had a doctors appointment scheduled for today with my primary doctor which was just going to be going over the same thing I went over with my ns. But I decided I needed to go anyway. So I wake up this morning and guess what my car will not start at all. I hurry up and call in to reschedule my app. My doctor knowing that I just said my car broke down again, demanded me to make my appointment or she would not fill anymore meds ever. I can’t make the appointment, I have no vehicle. I have never had to sign a contracts or agreement with her, but she said that I broke the contract. I never had to sign one. I was unaware that people even had to do this, I just always assumed that my doctor would know me after 12 years of never trying to get meds. I am devistated and hurt that my doctor was so mean and accusing on the phone. At my appointment yesterday, I was told to get a breast reduction and see a chiropracter regularly, and to continue my pain meds, and he was referring me to a pm doctor. I am just wondering if I am still going to be without what I have been used to for 2 months while I am going through the steps with the pm doctor. I have enough to last me until the 12th of August, but I am not sure how it will look to go in to the pm doctor and say this is what my old doctor has me on, but she is not going to give them to me anymore. What should I expect or do?
Back strong, bottom level with hips. Hands under shoulders. Brace midsection, breathe in and lower body to floor. At the floor, press hard upwards, breathing out and reaching one arm towards ceiling, head following the arm.
i do judo and wrestling and i hurt my shoulder like a month before i think i landed on it while my arm was back but i dont quite remember but it was a pain i can usually deal with and ignore and it goes away but my shoulders been acting up more and more lately like if i move it or strain my shoulder a certain direction it will pop out forwards and back in and after it like has this stinging burning feeling for like a minute and then be fine. I saw a physical therapist they said that i like irrated the tissue and socket. My shoulder hurts when i shrug it or if i put my hand straight up and reach back. I’ve been getting deeep deep tissue massages its been helping mostly. Any other suggestions of what i should do? Please help i have a big tournament soon and need to get it better. I was planning on getting this shoulder brace thing that goes across your chest seems like a lot of the judo players and wrestlers do that but will this help for this case? Thank you
As some of you have read some of my questions you maybe somewhat aware of my circumstances.I have treatment resistant depression along with chronic H/A-the pain management specialist explains them as migraine-muscular tension, and fibromyalgia of the muscles of the head neck, and shoulders. I have been having fentyl 600mcg medicine that is absorbed inside the gum and inner cheek. I only have one doctor prescribing medication, have an agreement contract, the whole nine yards. Yesterday I had two lower jaw teeth extracted along with a bone graft. My oral surgeon suggested to continue with the fentyl medication 2 days after the surgery. Now my pain management has decided to only allow me to have hydrocodone 15mg. tabs 1 or 2 every 4-6 hrs.My tolerance to medication is high therefore my pain is not being controlled.Would you share with me your experience with chronic pain, the management, and the control that you receive.I feel that I will never get the pain controlled . HELP PLEASE
ADDITIONAL; I cannot begin to thank you all so much for the concern and the information.If more doctors would talk with their patients instead of down to us,think of the possibilities. Im giving this edit to my question just in case there are others that would have to the answers already.??how to I acquire the information or how might I learn these things with the information from India and were did you all learn how to put these things into practice? would you help me a little more? I am so sick and tired of my monthly trip to get my so called answer to the pain. I am 53years old and I feel that Ive lost those years to all quick fixes or under the control of the legal dealers handing out what they want to at the time. I want to get my life back and I thankyou all so much. I want to put the practical into action. It will not happen overnight but I want to try.