Last Sunday afternoon, I tried to rise from the sofa after a post lunch nap. I promptly fell to the ground with a sharp pain in my lumbar region. There followed a somewhat comedic episode as Mrs L tried to get me to my feet only to be foiled as my knees gave out from under me.
Such was the manner of my incapacity, that by the evening and no sign of improvement, she was seriously considering calling an ambulance. This was a course of action I vigorously resisted. I was not inclined to spend hours waiting in casualty only to be given pain killers. Indeed, I would much rather spend the night in my own bed and deal with the matter in the morning, should it persist.
It did.
An attempt to get up to respond to a call of nature in the early hours left me in agony on all fours having dropped to my knees following a muscle spasm as I swung myself – very gingerly – out of bed. Again, Mrs L helped lift me to my feet. Again this was a drawn out process interrupted by excruciating spasms in my lower back.
I called my chiropractor in the morning and he advised me that this was caused by a trapped nerve. Later that day, Mrs L drove me to an appointment and following a few minutes manipulation, the offending nerve was freed. I hobbled into the consulting room and walked out. Now that’s what I call service.
I can now walk about. The old back is stiff and tends to seize up following periods of inactivity, but I’m on the mend. Indeed, the more I exercise it, the better it becomes.
So, when folk talk about back pain, I know exactly what they are talking about and it’s no joke.
Ouch! Trapped nerves are agonising, I’m told. You have my sympathies…
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My leg feels for you.
Now it could be a trapped nerve or one of your zygopopheses (pointy bits) on a vertebra poked your sciatic nerve causing inflammation and a motor problem with the muscles of your leg.
Happened to me once in 1996. All I did was bend down to put the dog’s dinner on the mat and as I stood up, ouch, a sharp pain in the lumbar region followed by a dull ache which became paralysis the next morning when I tried to get up! Once this happens the law of sod says it will happen again to a greater or lesser degree. It did. There is no way of regulating it or being careful. It really can be a pain in the arse, which is where the jolly old sciatic nerve traverses on it’s way down into the leg. I really do feel for you. It is an object lesson in being crippled and paralysed. It made me take my patients more seriously when reporting pain.
I’ve had two chiropractic appointments and it is much improved. So it does look as if it was a trapped nerve. Certainly, I, too, will look more sympathetically on those who complain of back pain.