I'm Injured - Gonna Be Scarce
 

A couple days ago, I slept wrong on my right shoulder & woke up in a lot of nerve pain. After 3 trips to the chiropractor, he sent me to my primary, who thinks I either have a severely pinched nerve or I slipped a disk :(

I should be going for an MRI tomorrow & then we'll know more.

Typing & moving my mouse is almost unbearable. The pain meds I'm on does not even begin to touch this pain. They put me on steroids to try & reduce the swelling, and while that did help, it wore off after a couple hours.

It took me a good 20 minutes to type this with my left hand, so working is almost pointless.

As soon as I can type without a serious amount of pain, I'll be back.

Holy fuck balls. Sorry to hear. Speedy recovery.

|coolman

Wow that is awful sorry to hear. Hoping for a speedy recovery for you.

Shit... thats not good - get well soon

maybe get some speech recognition software - I've been thinking about it

Hope you get better soon Greenie

Take care of yourself greenie.

On the other hand now you know how it feels to type as a porn surfer, with one hand...

ok that was lame :)

fuck! Thats pretty fucked up.

Well that blows, get well. :)

Damn man, you know you're getting old when you can hurt yourself by sleeping in the wrong position. Wishing you well with the MRI results and then getting what's wrong fixed so the pain goes away.

Thats sux, hopin for a speedy recovery :)

I have sciatica which is a pinched nerve in the lower back. So yah it hurts at times

Have a good one ya'll

Ouch, Greenie.. hope you get well soon and the pain goes away permanently!

Well that sucks. :(

Hopefully you will have a speedy recovery.

I highly recommend acupuncture for an ailment such as that, of course that depends largely on if those types of practices are available in your area, I would venture a guess they are.

It may take 2-3 treatments approx, but far more effective than chiropractor, which I have no confidence in.

Damn
Between you and Cleo, you guys are going to break the health insurance industry ;)

Sux man, but it will get better. Be careful with the pain stuff.

Update - I had an MRI yesterday, so I should have the results on that on Monday. The pain has been increasing each day & my right hand is almost constantly numb.

My chiropractor thinks it might be aspartame poisoning due to the amount of diet pop/soda I drink, so for now I'm cutting all that out. If that is the case,m it will sort itself out in about a month :(

That sucks! Hope you get fixed up soon!

Dude I've seen the way you eat. I'm surprised you are growing extra limbs or something.

Didn't know Diet soda could have that effect. I was told once by my doctor though it can attribute to migraines like I get, but I don't drink the stuff.

Hopefully it's something so simple.

Numerous studies have linked drinking diet soda to diabetes and ironically to weight gain.

ooops, missed this one :(
Hope you'll be well soon |waves|

Best Of Luck To The Both Of You! Power Is Back On In New Hampsha |bananna|

When I said that I needed some R&R this is not what I had in mind.

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...1&d=1320536380

Sorry to hear all that Greenie. Hopefully it will be quicker then the docs say.

The upside to all this is if you cut out all that soda and hopefully all those energy drinks as well, you might be able to get a decent sleep pattern back which will give you more energy then the drinks do.

|couch|

Cleo,

I think that view would make me more stressed.

Hopefully you will recover quicker then expected as well.