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May 28, 2009 10:18am
Sitting in a chair is painful, can't go out, difficult to sit and write this entry as well as anything on the computer. My major contact with the …
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EarnestBunbury 
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About Me
EarnestBunbury
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About Me
Former Truck Driver that has 5 bad, degenerative disks in lower back due to this job. I am a convert to Catholicism, faithful to the teachings of the Church and am a believer in Thomistic philosophy. I have one daughter and am divorced, and being Catholic means I will not remarry. God and Church is my life and I offer my sufferings, in union with the infinite merits of Christ, to The Father in atonement for sin and for the conversion of sinners. The pain make life tough, God gives it meaning.
Former Truck Driver that has 5 bad, degenerative disks in lower back due to this job. I am a convert to Catholicism, faithful to the teachings of the Church and am a believer in Thomistic philosophy. I have one daughter and am divorced, and being Catholic means I will not remarry. God and Church is my life and I offer my sufferings, in union with the infinite merits of Christ, to The Father in atonement for sin and for the conversion of sinners. The pain make life tough, God gives it meaning.
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Close Chronic Pain
I have 5 bad, degenerative discs in my lower back and as it gets worse I must do less and less in order to lessen the pain. My pain doc is not keeping up with the pain and the meds are not working. I can't even sit in my recliner without pain and must lie down a majority of the day. This makes me very upset.
Treatments
- Heat Working / Worked
- My back looks awful due to overuse of my heating pad. This is due to my pain med regimen not being adequate.
- Hydrocodone Somewhat Helpful
- wasn't strong enough, my doc recently upped it to endocet but isn't giving me enough to do anything but lie down all day
- Meditation Working / Worked
- Praying the rosary and meditating on the life of Jesus and His Passion and Death is getting in tune with the reality of the Creator. Making your own god or making oneself god is not helpful and did not help me as I did that for years before seeing that humility and obedience to the Church He founded is the way to true peace as God made us in Love for Him and we will be only happy with and in Him.
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- only helps me sleep and only if I don't use it everyday.
- Oxycodone Working / Worked
- I am not getting enough at the present time to take care of the pain and I am very depressed that I cannot sit in a chair. Typing this is getting painful. Life is very tedious right now.
- Physical Therapy Not Working
- It made my degenerative disk problem worse and the doctor didn't listen to me and now I am having so much trouble doing anything but lying down.
Close Back Pain
I have 5 bad, degenerative discs in my lower back and my medication is at times not enough. I hope to be a help and be helped in this through this group.
Treatments
- Bedrest Working / Worked
- It is all I can do all day is lie down.Sitting in a chair or recliner is sometimes too much as the pain gets to me.
- Hydrocodone Not Working
- This didn't work as it wasn't strong enough. I don't see oxycodone on this list and this is helping but I don't think I am getting enough of it.
- Physical Therapy Not Working
- It made my back problem worse. My doctor didn't listen to me and kept me going there until the pain got to be so bad I was crying in his office. I will never go to another doctor (except pain) for anything.
- Stretching Not Working
- This worked for years and then it stopped working when my back got to be too bad. That is when I went to the doctor and found out I had a disc problem in place of the muscle problem I thought I had.
Open Degenerative Disc Disease
I have DDD with 5 bad discs in my lower back. It keeps getting worse and I move very little throughout the day. The more I do the worse I feel.
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