I guess I owe the left on this board an apology...

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I had predicted they would spam the board today with MULEr report threads.
Not only was I clearly wrong but after a few glances throughout the day it appears that it is the right that is doing it. Comes as a bit of a surprise considering many of them thanked my prediction thread.

Enjoy this rare occasion lefties! I will now dive into my crow dinner....

 

[caddo kid]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

Stiff but much much better. Kind of a general radiating ache.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It could just be that since everything has been consolidated into one thread it creates the illusion that lefties aren't going ballistic.

 

[caddo kid]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

Stiff but much much better. Kind of a general radiating ache.

glad to hear it's better. How long has it been now since it went out, less that two weeks?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

Stiff but much much better. Kind of a general radiating ache.

glad to hear it's better. How long has it been now since it went out, less that two weeks?

About 2 weeks I guess. Did NOTHING for 5 days but take steroid pills and sit in my lazyboy. Went back to work Monday but brought in extra laborers for the first 2 days of demolition.
Got a script for muscle relaxers too but am not using them at all. If I get a bad flare up I might.

 

[airplanemechanic]

It just means that the mods are doing their jobs and merging threads.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

It just means that the mods are doing their jobs and merging threads.

If that were true I wouldn't see multiple threads, all started by the right, every time I've looked

 

[caddo kid]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

Stiff but much much better. Kind of a general radiating ache.

glad to hear it's better. How long has it been now since it went out, less that two weeks?

About 2 weeks I guess. Did NOTHING for 5 days but take steroid pills and sit in my lazyboy. Went back to work Monday but brought in extra laborers for the first 2 days of demolition.
Got a script for muscle relaxers too but am not using them at all. If I get a bad flare up I might.

glad to hear it's doing better. Good luck with it; it will eventually return & it will be like that movie Ground Hog Day.
Dealing with mine has taught me a lot about several things; having a lot of patience is one lesson I have learned, over & over.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

Stiff but much much better. Kind of a general radiating ache.

glad to hear it's better. How long has it been now since it went out, less that two weeks?

About 2 weeks I guess. Did NOTHING for 5 days but take steroid pills and sit in my lazyboy. Went back to work Monday but brought in extra laborers for the first 2 days of demolition.
Got a script for muscle relaxers too but am not using them at all. If I get a bad flare up I might.

glad to hear it's doing better. Good luck with it; it will eventually return & it will be like that movie Ground Hog Day.
Dealing with mine has taught me a lot about several things; having a lot of patience is one lesson I have learned, over & over.

The super weird thing about my situation is the new house I started Monday is for a guy who owns a company that sells replacement body parts/joints etc...
His biggest piece of advice goes against his business and was quite telling. He said AVOID SURGERY AT ALL COSTS.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Honestly they're probably still licking their wounds and are unable to type through the tears.

 

[whitehall]

Apologizing to lefties for what can only be seen as a minor gaffe (if any) is like apologizing to a grizzly for being his next meal.

 

[caddo kid]

I heard crow is good for bad backs. How is the back doing? Hopefully better.

Stiff but much much better. Kind of a general radiating ache.

glad to hear it's better. How long has it been now since it went out, less that two weeks?

About 2 weeks I guess. Did NOTHING for 5 days but take steroid pills and sit in my lazyboy. Went back to work Monday but brought in extra laborers for the first 2 days of demolition.
Got a script for muscle relaxers too but am not using them at all. If I get a bad flare up I might.

glad to hear it's doing better. Good luck with it; it will eventually return & it will be like that movie Ground Hog Day.
Dealing with mine has taught me a lot about several things; having a lot of patience is one lesson I have learned, over & over.

The super weird thing about my situation is the new house I started Monday is for a guy who owns a company that sells replacement body parts/joints etc...
His biggest piece of advice goes against his business and was quite telling. He said AVOID SURGERY AT ALL COSTS.

The thing about the spinal area & the low back, which is below the spinal cord but still there are nerve roots there is, the anatomy is so tightly packed. When I saw my first MRI it really surprised me to see how much anatomy was packed into such a small space. When you look at the cross section of the L4/L5 level scan, there is basically NO PLACE for herniated disc material to go, EXCEPT to push on a nerve root. That is what gets your back going; once that nerve root says, "OK, I've had enuff of this shit" then that's when you get the BAM!!!
I agree that surgery in such a tightly packed area of anatomy is a real potential gamble. A surgeon making one wrong move in there and you could end up losing the function of a leg, maybe even become a paraplegic. That would suck worse than the alternative.