"Calling YK calling YK"

[Nath]

Hows the back?
I was just thinking how good and gentle exercise it is to load and shoot a muzzle loader!
How about firing that short barreled thing you have?

Nath.

[Ysabel Kid]

I'm hoping to do a little shooting over the holidays. It's been 5 months - much too long. My back is getting better, slowly but surely (but real slowly! ). I was cleared to start physical therapy and have my first appointment next Tuesday. Thank you for asking Nath!!!

[Hanzerik]

What did you have done to your back? I am going under the knife next month for a discectomy.

[1886]

YK is the MAN. Time for some dead lifts, Brother. 1886.

[jeepnik]

Hey Yk, when you start rehab, don't try to do it all at once. The therapist will try to stop you any way. Go slow, get the flexibility back, and the strength will come. A little discomfort is okay, but don't overdo it. I learned this the hard way. So pay attention. Good luck buddy.

[Bogie35]

Good luck YK. I'm sure you have been chomping at the bit. Hope you are up and at 'em soon!

bogie

[Nath]

Gentle exercise of a ram rod, gently easing the flint back, the gentle making up the possibles bag and the theraputic aromas of black powder, perfect for bad backs. Not to mention the gentle walking up and down to the target boards etc etc,,,,

N

[2X22]

Time for some dead lifts, Brother. 1886.

It may be just a wee bit too late for deads, 1886! Though I have to admit, I've had students that have had back surgery and did fairly well with the TBDL

From one with 40 years of back pain to another with back pain YK, here's to moving forward to a life of NO back pain!
2x22

[Ysabel Kid]

What did you have done to your back? I am going under the knife next month for a discectomy.

That's what I had (technically, a "microdiscectomy"). I ruptured the L5/S1 disc "very badly" (to quote the doctors). Had the surgery 10/26. The leg pain is gone, and I have almost all the feeling back in my right foot (just a little numbness in my right heal) - which puts me a bit ahead of schedule. Still can't sit or stand too long without a lot of back pain though. I've met a lot of people who have had the same or similar surgeries. Everyone says the same thing - it will take 6 months to a year before I have all the strength I had before this all happened. Good luck and follow the doctor's orders strictly - I didn't one week out and paid for it with another week flat on my back in bed, and a rump-chewing from the fellas here!

[Ysabel Kid]

Time for some dead lifts, Brother. 1886.

It may be just a wee bit too late for deads, 1886! Though I have to admit, I've had students that have had back surgery and did fairly well with the TBDL

From one with 40 years of back pain to another with back pain YK, here's to moving forward to a life of NO back pain!
2x22

Thank you! I've had a bad back since a car accident 26 years ago. Being hit by a taxi while walking in a crosswalk 6 years ago didn't help. Still, I'm fortunate - lots of people worse off than me. I've got a good job, understanding management, flexible schedule, good insurance, excellent doctors, and caring family and friends. Hard to gripe about a little back pain when I look at it that way!

[1886]

I am doing some 16oz. curls at this very moment anticipating your speedy recovery, Bro. God Bless, 1886.

[2X22]

I've had a bad back since a car accident 26 years ago. Being hit by a taxi while walking in a crosswalk 6 years ago didn't help.

Ouch! I had the misfortune of having a chair pulled out from me in my freshman year of high school by an older student who thought it would be funny. Landed across a step and broke L4 and L5. That was 37 years ago.

Still, I'm fortunate - lots of people worse off than me. I've got a good job, understanding management, flexible schedule, good insurance, excellent doctors, and caring family and friends. Hard to gripe about a little back pain when I look at it that way!

I agree 100%, that is my way of thinking too!

2x22

[Hanzerik]

What did you have done to your back? I am going under the knife next month for a discectomy.

That's what I had (technically, a "microdiscectomy"). I ruptured the L5/S1 disc "very badly" (to quote the doctors). Had the surgery 10/26. The leg pain is gone, and I have almost all the feeling back in my right foot (just a little numbness in my right heal) - which puts me a bit ahead of schedule. Still can't sit or stand too long without a lot of back pain though. I've met a lot of people who have had the same or similar surgeries. Everyone says the same thing - it will take 6 months to a year before I have all the strength I had before this all happened. Good luck and follow the doctor's orders strictly - I didn't one week out and paid for it with another week flat on my back in bed, and a rump-chewing from the fellas here!

Same Disk, but they will also work on L4/L5...so two for one deal. The Leg/Butt pain and leg "numbness" are really driving me crazy at times, and that is what I most want gone. I'm only 40, but hurt my back a few times from way back in the early 90's. The Military would always prescribe Motrin, so after so many times of them just giving me the same meds and telling me to stretch, I would just not go to the hospital and bought my own Motrin and do the stretches they had always told me to do before. But this past January I was laid up in bed with a nasty cold/flu and was coughing really bad. I think that is what caused my current problem; the convulsing motion. I don't remember anything else I did that would cause something like this other then maybe doing the splits on an icy driveway when trying to get in a front end loader. Every time I would cough/sneeze, my buttock would feel like it was cramping. It kind of freaked me out so I went to a civilian doc and he said it was just a pinched nerve and prescribed relaxers and pain meds. The pain was occasional; only when coughing or sneezing. Then around June the pain became constant, and had spread to my calf, and thigh. My foot started to go numb around October.

I was finally able to get an MRI scheduled after a couple months of physical therapy that didn't help. The Mil Docs said there was nothing more they could do for me up here, and referred me to a specialist down in Loveland Colorado who, from what I have heard, is one of the best at what he does. He went over the MRI results and said this surgery should help me out. Will probably put me on convalescent leave for a while, and will screw up our work schedule. I work in the Nebraska Missile fields (USAF) for about 180 days a year, along with two other co-workers at my site. With me out action it will cause them and the other 12 guys in our squadron to have to pull some longer, more frequent, alerts to fill the vacancy which I feel bad about, but I can't take the pain and numbness anymore.

darn, 6 months to a year...that's a long time.

[Nath]

Took me three months in my late twenties and then I cleared snow and had to do another three months

Don't rush in now!

Nath.

[Ysabel Kid]

What did you have done to your back? I am going under the knife next month for a discectomy.

That's what I had (technically, a "microdiscectomy"). I ruptured the L5/S1 disc "very badly" (to quote the doctors). Had the surgery 10/26. The leg pain is gone, and I have almost all the feeling back in my right foot (just a little numbness in my right heal) - which puts me a bit ahead of schedule. Still can't sit or stand too long without a lot of back pain though. I've met a lot of people who have had the same or similar surgeries. Everyone says the same thing - it will take 6 months to a year before I have all the strength I had before this all happened. Good luck and follow the doctor's orders strictly - I didn't one week out and paid for it with another week flat on my back in bed, and a rump-chewing from the fellas here!

Same Disk, but they will also work on L4/L5...so two for one deal. The Leg/Butt pain and leg "numbness" are really driving me crazy at times, and that is what I most want gone. I'm only 40, but hurt my back a few times from way back in the early 90's. The Military would always prescribe Motrin, so after so many times of them just giving me the same meds and telling me to stretch, I would just not go to the hospital and bought my own Motrin and do the stretches they had always told me to do before. But this past January I was laid up in bed with a nasty cold/flu and was coughing really bad. I think that is what caused my current problem; the convulsing motion. I don't remember anything else I did that would cause something like this other then maybe doing the splits on an icy driveway when trying to get in a front end loader. Every time I would cough/sneeze, my buttock would feel like it was cramping. It kind of freaked me out so I went to a civilian doc and he said it was just a pinched nerve and prescribed relaxers and pain meds. The pain was occasional; only when coughing or sneezing. Then around June the pain became constant, and had spread to my calf, and thigh. My foot started to go numb around October.

I was finally able to get an MRI scheduled after a couple months of physical therapy that didn't help. The Mil Docs said there was nothing more they could do for me up here, and referred me to a specialist down in Loveland Colorado who, from what I have heard, is one of the best at what he does. He went over the MRI results and said this surgery should help me out. Will probably put me on convalescent leave for a while, and will screw up our work schedule. I work in the Nebraska Missile fields (USAF) for about 180 days a year, along with two other co-workers at my site. With me out action it will cause them and the other 12 guys in our squadron to have to pull some longer, more frequent, alerts to fill the vacancy which I feel bad about, but I can't take the pain and numbness anymore.

darn, 6 months to a year...that's a long time.

I know a guy who sneezed and landed in bed for 2 weeks solid. That's what you have to watch out for - it is the unexpected little things that can cause the most trouble.

You will start to feel better right after you wake up from surgery. The 6-months to a year is what it will take to regain full strength, endurance, and the ability to do everything you did before the pain set in constantly. You'll be able to work long before then - you just need to watch yourself and not push yourself. Good luck!