I cant move
 

Hello

Can anyone explain this to me?
I went to bed last night feeling fine and woke up not being to stand straight, walk, when I look into the mirror I and crooked all tilted to one side. and the pain is a solid 10 :eek:
I am on a dose pack for acute bronchitis Go figure?

Gil

Gil, I'm so sorry that you've had this setback. What you are describing is exactly what I used to experience when my lumbar pain was episodic. As I got worse and worse, these episodes came at shorter and shorter intervals and lasted longer and longer.

The good news is that I experienced this for many years with the episodes lasting only a day or 3 and coming at intervals measured in months. If you are like I was... surgery may still be years away. Hopefully you'll be better in a few days.

All the best,

Mark

PS. I moved your post to the main forum.

re your back
 

Gil,
Like Mark I too had these acute flare ups (before my 2nd surgery and pain becoming chronic in nature) and like Mark my episodes were at first once a year then several times/year until they were every other month. That's when I had my first discectomy.

When I read that you were on medication for bronchitis I had wondered if you'd been coughing alot and perhaps were having spasms because of this.

If so an injection of 60mg of Toradol may help with that. This is what I get when my neck goes out and I can't turn my head at all or very little and same with my low back.

Good luck and hope your flare up will soon settle down tho I'd try some muscle relaxers if you have them on hand just to see if that helps tho injectable Toradol is what works best for me.

Somewhere else I replied to your post and inquired if you were experiencing any numbness or loss of function/tone in the involved extremities or bowel/bladder incontinence and or any significant deficit that would have you go to the ER ASAP? Hope not tho do hope this blows over as soon as possible pain and contortion wise.

During sleep we turn, twist, and roll with no control. Maybe could try massage, heat, light traction, anti inflammatory, a soft brace for sleeping. Just thoughts.