The Stoners Echo Chamber

Nahh my sciatic problems are just related to the underlining issue which is non curable arthritic inflammation.

 

Took me a minute to remember there was a super bowl..

 

keeps moving, doesn't it... Lmao

 

yes it is a cool illusion

 

This is what Salvia is like.....

 

You have used some,??

 

Salvia? It was probably 10 years ago... My bass player had some.

 

bass players are always the druggies in the band

 

Actually.... I was.

 

I found one of those "Purple" amps for sale that I've talked about before.

It's on the other side of the country...

Guy won't ship...

Probably a good thing, actually....

 

I <3 that pic ^^^. Thanks! Now yes, you did read I almost bought someone a dick sucking jelly machine/toy/thing. But I didn't because because they are right costly unless you are buying if for yourself. ha I'm sure they have fake bums. I didn't see any but I wasn't looking in a dept (online) where that would have been.

Yeah - I would compare the material these toythings are made of would be jelly-like but not sticky. yuck. enough of that.

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My son has an inversion table and says its great and he loves it, it has helped his back problems etc etc. (I've never tried it.) He is lean and tall - 6'4", and his back has bothered him on and off since he played football in high school. He turned 36 Nov. 2019.

 

I'm scared to use one on my own. I live alone worry I'd get stuck on it; one day, my brother would wonder what happened ever happened to me, come over to my place and discover a skeleton hanging upside down.

 

I should add that the son does stuff that is subject to not be "kind" to his back such as mountain bike riding and kayaking (in season). Also weight lifting 5 days a week isn't good for his back...so he is always needing to stretch out all the vertebra and stuff....that is what the inversion table does. Since I've begun remembering he said this did help his sciatica also.

 

My problem is scoliosis. About halfway down my back my spine makes a curve to the right. Sitting for long periods of time, such as I do at work, becomes agonizing.

 

The reason my sciatica hurts is because I've lost all the compression in my lowest and third lowest vertabrae, there's just no more fluid in them anymore to act as a sponge and compression protection. The one between them about 8 months ago at my last scan, the vertabrae in the middle was leaking this fluid. You could see it on the xrays and MRI like a blood leak. He said it's this interaction with the rest of my body causing me pain as it mixes together. I guess eventually it'll run out, don't know when maybe already now. Then I'm just left with 3 hopeless vertabrae.


It sounds scary but the doctor didn't seem to care. Here take two of these pills every day and good luck.

Oh ok.

 

Fucking doctors. I went to physical therapy last year for several weeks. Didn't help at all; indeed, it felt worse afterward. They took my money though.

 

But I can attest to still doing stuff with my back i probably should not be lol. Especially horse riding. But I'm not going to give that up until I physically can't get up on the things. I have a good saddle, it's for lower back problem people and an insert which makes me tighter and less sideways movement.

But I can't help it I can't help doing stupid shit it has not sunk in yet that I need to slow down a little. I think that's garbage talk at 32yo but I can feel it man, I can feel it. but my brain doesn't register this shit so while I need to stop doing dumb stuff that hurts my back, if I see a sufficient height landing and clearing somewhere, I'm doing a Jackie Chan off that thing and then it's hit the ground with my feet and within that 1 second I tell myself "yep, that'll hurt you for a while" but I can't help it. I'm still 15 and invincible. I had a whole lot of injuries I should just pack it in now, hang up my cletes and stay home. that's loser talk!

 

LORD GOD!!!! It looks like in this day and age they would have invented something they can or could insert between the veterbrae. I've heard of this happening to other people. Don't they sometimes fuse bones if its bad? I don't know what is considered bad, but it sounds like your's and tumbling.dice isn't good.

 

I'm sure if I kicked and screamed he'd get me the injection shot, maybe he just thinks well she's getting sound okay it's not as painful yet? I don't know. I'm just on umm, feldene 10mg, 2 pills per day but I only take them when I am sore.

I think my pain tolerance is pretty high actually.

 

I think that's the colengen gel injections. They're meant to work for a month or so. Meant to be the most painful thing ever too. Lol.

What will eventually happen to my vertabrae is the inflammation disease, it's called Ankylosing Spondeliteous, and basically my lower back is worn out and inflamed and the inflammation will eventually make my vertabrae like sieze like concrete, harden ummm "fused" is the fancy word he told me. It is most likely the most common reason for hunchback people in the middle ages before it was diagnosed.

Unfortunately I can't get out of it, there's no cure, no solution. The only thing I can do is protect myself so it doesn't spread at a fast rate. It'll just slowly keep going up my vertabrae.

I would think in maybe 20 years when I truly need it there'll be a solution, but tbh I've been saying that since I was a kid, I said I don't care if I get a terminal illness there'll be a cure by then.... And I don't think there's been a cure for anything, so I hope the gods had a sense of humour that day when I said that.