Knives for your herniated discs pain remedy?

Why I am so afraid with knives is not a matter of maturity whether I am going to take the risk of getting operated in a table by some surgeon I wouldn’t know is Christian enough to practice empathy in his profession. The reason is that I am not sure if I am going to get better or worse after the knife part.

Disc herniations are most common in the lumbar area. The usual recommended treatment is generally open back high risks surgery with longer hospital stays and lengthy recuperation time. If you get fed up containing the pain then you just have to settle yourself with the thought of lying on that cold room and getting ready for the knife part. Ngehh…. No… no….nah… as much as I can help it I wouldn’t lie down there.

First consideration is the money that will be spent during the operation and while you are recuperating not to mention the “what if” this will happen to you. You know what I mean. The “what if” is more expensive. What if something goes wrong? Can someone stretch out a dollar for that day to day of your life you are trying to breathe some fresh air in a closed bedroom? God I wouldn’t wanna know what it will be.

So let’s get to the basics of what you should do when you have one herniated lumbar disc like mine. Stop eating too much and maintain your ideal body weight. Yes that’s it! Maintain your ideal body weight and go easy with your diet plan. You need to help your body carry your weight. Getting more weight will cause you more pain. I encourage you do physical activity that does not involve bending like walking. By the way if you stretch too much it will cause you more pain. Observe correct body posture. This means where ever you are, whatever you do – always remember correct body posture. Never take this for granted. Give it a week and you’ll be running for that pain reliever in your medicine cabinet lol.

Swimming is good. Water exercise is good. Don’t swim like an athlete though. Just swim to stretch your muscles in the water. It will do your body more good than harm and will help your muscles relax too. Get a swimming partner buddy so you won’t get bored and lazy. Select someone with not much life baggage. Having a friend with a lot of problems when you are going on a therapy will add up to the pain. You won’t be able to swim but instead spend the whole of your time listening to him. So choose one that can make you smile and look radiant when you are having your therapy. Allocate another time for friends who need your ears and not when you are having your therapy. This is one mistake we always overlook at time.

Get cured be sure that you don’t sit too long nor stand too long. Shift your position always. And the best part is to have a light massage at night with hot packs. Massage the area near the injured area but not directly at the area. But you have to put the hot packs directly at the area of course. Liniments that are most soothing are the ones that will give you a cool hot feeling. Hot I say because it will counter the pain a little and will make you go to sleep. Ops please don’t leave hot packs for more than 20 minutes. Never stop being active it will help you keep yourself healthy. If you have anything to share, leave a comment. Sharing notes with someone of same herniated disc problem is most welcome.

Managing stroke

Relieve pain and restore self to good health – never let frustrations sink in!

In desperate moments you have everyone near your heart to call on. But if they won’t come don’t let frustrations topple your confidence down. Life has its own meaning and events serve you with a purpose. Try to keep yourself at bay from negative emotions and try listening to music first.

Yes music therapy has a lot to do with your emotions, moods and thinking. Give yourself the chance to feel light to overcome stress. Listen to music and maybe try to sing along with it like you are singing with a karaoke. Music helps to make you feel good even if you go up and down with your mood. It does help ease the pain.

When you hear the sounds daydream a little and you will notice that your mood will elevate. There you are…. You feel lighter now….. Can you snap you fingers? Snap and go with the beat.

Then move your feet… move your legs… that’s it… little by little…. Stretch your arms…. Go …. Go… you are doing well…

Stroke is not easy to deal with but the most critical part is the confidence and the will to survive. Take it easy and listen to the music. Go with the beat and stretch… there you are… stretch again….

Having fun?

I have experienced dragging my left leg five years ago while walking going to the office to report work. And it was not easy. I did not have a stroke but my herniated disc was causing me much pain. My left leg was all numb sometimes I can’t feel with my leg and it was so frustrating because I was still in my 30s at that time.

I had my moments and frustrations but tried to survive by undergoing physical therapy and going to an early morning walk everyday, swim at the sea on weekends and then danced with Britney Spears songs any time when I am at home. It was great help because I am still walking until now without undergoing surgery yet. And by the way, it will make you slimmer and look sexy too. I guess that’s the bonus!

Herniated disc pain management

The use of ice may help reduce lumbar pain and muscle spasm at the moment. Painful muscle spasms can be eliminated with ice or heat. Significant signs indicating the need for immediate referral to a physical therapist include muscle weakness, sensory changes, diminish reflexes in the lower extremity and abnormal bladder or bowel function. Minimized load on the spine by avoiding activities that involve impact, lifting, bending, twisting and prolonged sitting and standing. It is important that you take muscle relaxants, passive exercise and gentle stretching. Most of all please loose a little of those fats and maintain your ideal body weight. This is what I’ve been telling about diet, nutrition and exercise. There are more benefits you gain from it than reasons for taking it for granted and actually neglecting it. Anybody wanting to be my exercise buddy lol just email me…..

Understanding disc injuries

Prolonged mechanical loading of the spine often times leads to annulus fibrosis microruptures. This results to disc degeneration where the extruded disc moves into the spinal canal and impinge on the adjacent nerve roots. Symptoms felt are sharp pain and muscle spasms at the site of the herniation. The sensation occurs only until such time the surrounding soft tissues are impinged.

The numbness may shoot down the sciatic nerve into the lower extremity. This inflammatory condition may also be associated with sciatica which is commonly caused by a herniated disc. You may notice that if you have sciatica, the resulting radiating leg pain may sometimes be greater than your low back pain.

The pain increases with prolonged sitting and leaning forward, coughing, sneezing and straining. This may make any person suffering from sciatica to walk in a slightly crouched position like it tends to lean away from the side of the lesion. The pain actually radiates down the distribution of the involved nerve root.

Herniated cervical and lumbar discs or slip discs

Herniated disc is inappropriately and commonly called as slipped disc by a lot of people but known as ruptured disc in the sports writer’s world. This is likely to be symptomatic because of the proximity of the spinal nerve roots. The pain is usually acute from the pressure on the longitudinal ligaments and local inflammation. Chronic pain results from the compression of the spinal nerve roots by the herniated disc.

The most common is the lumbago acute middle and low back pain. Approximately 95% of lumbar disc protrusions occur at L4-L5 or L5S1 levels. Muscle spasm and tense or increasingly cramped lumbar region are associated with the low back pain a patient feels. Further ischemia may occur and cause painful movements.

This may be gradually replaced by sciatica which is a pain in the lower back and hip that radiates down the back of the thigh into the leg. L5 or S1 are components of the sciatic nerve causing shooting pain down the lower limbs. Back muscles go into spasm as a response to inflammation of back structures. Spasms are sudden involuntary contraction of one or more muscle groups attended by cramps and pain producing involuntary movement and distortion.

Only the removal of the extruded part of the disc or the free fragment is seen to be the most possible relief to the pain intensity one’s feel. However risks of surgery may be localized as dural tear, wrong level exploration, hemorrhage, infection and nerve deficit. This is the very reason I did not undergo surgery besides the high medical cost that I am going to injure. After my neck operation of lymphangioma I noticed some changes in me. I doubt if I undergo back operation I would still be the same. As much as possible we deny the knife if we can still make it. We just don’t know what we are going to lose during the operation.