jtayl71

Class of ‘08. Been in BR ever since.

32 y/o male here, was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis at L4/L5 and L5/S1 at 28. I used poor technique to pickup a miter saw and immediate sharp pain in my back that did not go away. Two month later I woke up to little pain but my legs were semi-numb. Went to an ortho who luckily transferred me to a neuro. I completely agree with everyone else do not trust an ortho please go see a neuro. The orthodox told me “yeah you have the back of a 50 year old, but I will clear you to go play contact sports” did not like that whole interaction at all, the neuro was much better. Prescribed physical therapy which helped a bit, but I saw real improvement when I started Pilates, took a small bit to my pride as I saw it as an old lady exercise thing but man I was incorrect in that thinking. My neuro also prescribed me cymbalta cause it treats diabetic nerve pain, do not go on any of those types of medications without researching it first, I didn’t and now I am trying to ween myself down because the withdrawals suck! I still have pain every now and then but it is usually situational, sitting too long bad posture etc. I have heard of people having their herniations heal over time, I would try and do everything I could before electing surgery as there is no going back at all after you go under the knife.

I am going to be in the market for a new truck very soon and the truck market right now is just insane. I know I can get a decent amount on a trade in, and used prices are damn near the same as new. I'm curious as to what will happen to prices once this chip shortage is over. Seems to me like everyone will get used to paying these prices so they won't come back down. Thoughts?

Verizon is offering 550 trade in for my Pixel 3 as a 23 dollar credit over two years if I trade it in for the 5.

I have been using the Pixel 3 for the last two years, and before that I have been with iPhones since the 4. I like a lot of things of both but essentially I love the Apple hardware but I am a fan of googles OS. I have loved my Pixel 3 but it is starting to give me fits with bluetooth and such. I'm trying to decide which way to go on this. Any thoughts would be awesome.

Ive been do Pilates once a week for the past few weeks trying to get that core strength up. That stuff definitely shows you where you are weak, will continue it. Life has gotten hectic here lately so I slacked off on my physical therapy excercises and i have lost a lot of the progress I had made and a lot of my symptoms are returning.

Hows everyone doing? Any update RLDSC or Evil Little Thing?

I'm an engineer, at a desk most days.

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I think a lumbar fusion is in my near future

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If you do have it done I wish you the best of luck and I hope it gets you relief.

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.