Please I really need help!!! Can't hardly move last 40 days due to severe pain in L/H lower back, buttocks, hip, thigh and calf. The pain is constant and when sitting I'm in agony to point of pass out. And walking near impossible as very crooked and weight on my left leg causes spasms... not good as my right foot is crippled and arthritic after a botched subtailor fusion ( with a 3/4 tear in the anterior talyofibular ligerment -spelling?)
I'm a 38 yo male. It all started when I was 18 lifting a heavy truck wheel hub, I lent over to put it down and had a bad pain in lower back and could barely move. Doc says rest 2 weeks muscle spasm
Couple days later I was fine went back to work. Over the next 14 years it would agrivate and I would hang from a bar and it was good.
5 years ago it took a bad turn and I was in pain (7-10) with pain in L/H hip. MRI showed a disc herniation l4/l5 with narrowing of spinal canal . I was called at 9:30pm from radiology to go straight to emergency which I did. Doc called surgeon and surgeon said " put him in ambo and will do surgery tomorrow.. I was scared but then heard surgeon ask doc if I had " private health insurance". When I said" No". Surgeon said sorry. He will have to go on waiting list...... so I researched surgery and decided not to do it as my back had now healed again however standing or sitting long periods would ache it...
Howeve the last five years it started to paralise me!!! I would feel an ache in my back then muscle spasm would force me to just fall face first on to belly then would be paralysed not being able to move for 15-1/2 hour? When I would get back up I would be slightly crooked and in pain (8-10) But I found ide hang on an inversion table, relax my body and feel a pop/crack and then be almost 100% again. This has worked well until 14 months ago!! I was in agony and hung on the inversion table. I forced my body to relax and could feel something moving in my lower spine. Then !!!!! Pop/crack/bam. An electric shock went through my whole body and I screamed out in both pain and shock.. I swung back inverted and my back was good again? So last 14 months have been great with only an ach in a certain car. Or standing up. Did 3 16 hr drives with no probs
Now..... 40 days ago. I did nothing out of the ordinary. When just walking in shopping centre I got a ache in my lower back. With in 1-2 mins I could barely move and was very crooked, the 45 min drive home was the worst in my life. For next 7 days I struggled to barely move with extreme pain(9-10). In lower left back. Tried all the usual hanging, exercises pain killers ect. Then on day 7 I had a very bad muscle spasm? I was left 1/2 nakered on the toilet floor -a grown 38 yo man crying in front of the wife in kids....another MRI showed no real change from 5 years ago? And NO impinging on nerves!
My doc sent referral to surgeon but still no reply yet. However over the last 20+ days pain has localised to left kidney,buttock,hip thigh and calf( but 10-10) not much pain in back . I'm very crooked still ( leaning to right. Left hip pushed out) and only get relief lying down moving positions every 5 mins.( get full relief only whilst hanging from arms dangling feet?)... I have tried every thing on net. acupuncture ,trigger therapy, exercise and stetch 10 times a day, PT. Aqua theropy ect... nothing helps and I have been unable to work for 40 days. Pain killers ect. Nothing works? Doing my head in
I also suffer severely from anxiouty. Hypoventilate, migraines, (throats lump once), but very happy person that loves life and lives it to the fullest- well not last 40 days.
Anyone have any suggestions or simalar?