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Topic: Hurt my back
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Myname
♂ 23138
Member # 23138 |  Posted: 9:29 AM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 |     |
I'm really mad at myself for this. I'm a landscaper so I need to be in top physical shape to work.
I was trying to pick up this tote that weighs around 200lbs over my head. Halfway up the tote buckled because, duh its a plastic tote! Why do you have so much weight in a plastic tote! So I try to catch it  and had to bend over to catch it. That took the weight off my legs and right into my lower back.
The stupidest thing is that I caught it, felt my back pull, and then continued to hold it bent over. I was trying to figure out how to get a better grip so I could pick it up again.  I ended up dropping it and going inside for a few minutes.
I have a few light days as far as physical activity is concerned but a "light day" for me is like a big weekend of projects for most people.
I'm walking all gingerly. I'm taking Ibuprofen and using absorbine jr so I smell and look like an old person.
DD: 1-14-09 EA/PA OM #1
TT: 5-11&12-09
DD#2: 5-18-09 EA OM #2
5-31-09: Told me she hasn't loved me.
No kids
Me BH: 38
12-08-10: S
Posts: 3747 | Registered: Mar 2009 | From: Inside your computer. |
MovingUpward
♂ 14866
Member # 14866 | | Posted: 9:51 AM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
Ouch! Rest up and take care of yourself. I hope you are back to 100% quickly.
Posts: 54405 | Registered: Jun 2007 |
jo2love
♀ 31528
Member # 31528 | | Posted: 9:52 AM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
(((Myname)))
Ouch! I hope you feel better and it heals quickly. Sending you mojo.
Posts: 50172 | Registered: Mar 2011 |
lynnm1947
♀ 15300
Member # 15300 | | Posted: 12:12 PM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
Ow, I feel for you! My back goes out regularly after I do hard physical work, so I know it's no fun. I prescribe lots of A5-35 and a bit of rest.
Age: 64..ummmmmmm, no...............65....no...oh, hell born in 1947. You figure it out!
"I could have missed the pain, but I would have had to miss the dance." Garth Brooks
Posts: 8746 | Registered: Jul 2007 | From: Toronto, Canada |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 12:44 PM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
((((MyName)))) Sending you healing thoughts.
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
Posts: 40124 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
Jrazz
♀ 31349
Member # 31349 | | Posted: 1:03 PM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
I'm slowly learning to heed the "danger pull" feeling. I don't always, and I pay for it.
I hope you feel better soon and can get back to smelling like... normal?  
"Don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest." - Deeply Scared's mom
Posts: 29076 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: California |
Kajem
♀ 36134
Member # 36134 | | Posted: 2:36 PM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
Ouch!!!!!
Hope you're back to normal soon.
K
I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - Unknown
Relationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page.
Posts: 6708 | Registered: Jul 2012 | From: Florida |
sisoon
♂ 31240
Member # 31240 | | Posted: 4:04 PM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
I wish you the best. Coming out of an L4-L5 episode myself, but I'm basically retired.
Ice.
Walks, pelvic tilts, hamstring and pyriform stretches?
fBH (me) - 70+, fWW, Married 45+, together 45+, same sex ap
DDay - 12/22/2010
Recover'd and R'ed
I share my own experience because it's all I know.
Posts: 16109 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: Illinois |
Myname
♂ 23138
Member # 23138 | | Posted: 4:30 PM, June 15th (Sunday), 2014 | |
I did some light physical work today and I'm feeling a lot better. I tend to heal VERY quickly which is nice.
I'm going to continue to take meds and smell funny though.
DD: 1-14-09 EA/PA OM #1
TT: 5-11&12-09
DD#2: 5-18-09 EA OM #2
5-31-09: Told me she hasn't loved me.
No kids
Me BH: 38
12-08-10: S
Posts: 3747 | Registered: Mar 2009 | From: Inside your computer. |
Amazonia
♀ 32810
Member # 32810 | | Posted: 7:16 AM, June 16th (Monday), 2014 | |
Ouch! Be good to yourself and let it fully heal before you go back to full work.
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
Posts: 14441 | Registered: Jul 2011 |
tushnurse
♀ 21101
Member # 21101 | | Posted: 7:41 AM, June 16th (Monday), 2014 | |
Do some gentle back stretches throughout the day, use Ice when you can, and drink lots and lots and lots of water. The pain from pulled muscles comes from a build up of lactic acid in the muscles, you have to flush that out.
Good Luck, and be kind to yourself.
Me: FBS
Him: FWS
Kids: 18 & 20
Married for 22 years now, was 16 at the time. .
D-Day Sept 26 2008
R'd in about 2 years. Old Vet now.
Posts: 13009 | Registered: Oct 2008 | From: St. Louis |
Myname
♂ 23138
Member # 23138 | | Posted: 9:48 AM, June 16th (Monday), 2014 | |
I didn't know the drink lots of water thing. Thanks. 
Just to say I'm feeling a lot better today. I don't have a full day of work until Wednesday and even then I have people working for me so I can do the easy jobs for once.
DD: 1-14-09 EA/PA OM #1
TT: 5-11&12-09
DD#2: 5-18-09 EA OM #2
5-31-09: Told me she hasn't loved me.
No kids
Me BH: 38
12-08-10: S
Posts: 3747 | Registered: Mar 2009 | From: Inside your computer. |
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