re: Low Back Pain - Degenerative Disc Disease - Checking In

Thank you so much. We're just devastated. I feel so sorry for my wife.

They found it with a cat scan.

Met with a back specialist on Friday. He basically just told me things I already know. Referring me to PT and gave me some muscle relaxers.

The past week I've been feeling pretty decent, but the pain came roaring back yesterday. I could hardly sleep last night. Do any of you have issues with sleeping?

I just found out today I have degenerative changes in my neck as well, degenerative spondylosis is what the report said. Seems to be just a general term for some degenerative changes to the discs. Feel like I'm falling apart literally haha.

I wake up with what feels like a burning pain down my leg sometimes and have to get up and walk around to get the sensation to stop. Hate those nights

Keep us posted!! I need to add some neck stretches to my routine.

There are a lot of days where I don’t really feel like doing the stretches. I remind myself that I haven’t felt this good in a year, and pull out the yoga mat.

So fed up with back pain. Just started a promising new job and my pain meds were recently cut off. So a few weeks in and i cant concentrate or sit at my desk. Hope you giys are feeling ok today

I took a hit on my tailbone in HS. I went low dive to grab a pass in the end zone and the LB put the crown of his helmet on my butt and apparently the third or fourth disc up took most of the energy. Didn't find that out until I was about 35 when I just couldn't deal with the chronic pain any longer. I'm 65 now.

My orthopedist discouraged surgery and gave me several exercises to target specific areas and to do when I sensed problems coming. Also mechanics of proper lifting.

I've only had about four bad reoccurrences which required pain and muscle relaxant Rx. Minor flare ups warrant ibuprofen.

In the last five years I've used Tumeric/Curcumin as a supplement which had dramatically reduced my pain inflammation issues with football damaged knees and shoulder. It has also been very helpful with the back and disc.

That's what I've got. Prayers and I wish you the best. DDD can be tough.

I'm glad youre starting to get some relief! Turns out the discs in my neck are fine, but I actually have bone spurs growing which are closing in on the nerve roots in the C3-C4 and C4-C5 area. My PT says that they usually do not see this in people until way later in life he was kind of surprised. He is now adding neck therapy on top of my lower back.
There an exercise with my lower back that you push yourself up into extension while laying on your stomach. well for the past little while I decided to start doing that with my neck as well, thinking it would be good for my discs. Apparently my thinking was incorrect and I may have cause these bone spurs to start acting up by doing that, so hopefully with some neck stretches and excercises I can get this under control too.
Lower back is still in progress, have some days with virtually no pain and then the next with some mild pain.