I highly recommend seeing a spinal specialist. My GP told me I had mild scoliosis and arthritis. I know I do. After years of back pain that kept getting worse, I decided to follow his advise to see an arthritis specialist who saw a shadow on my x-rays- last month. Its not dangerous, but we did find out its a bad condition that can at least be managed. Dont wait. Its not worth it for your kids sake. I couldnt, and still cant afford the bills. But my thinking was, my kids cant afford not having a mom if it was worse case scenario. Then I found out my hospital system offers reasonable low interest loads, with very small payments to cover all the bills. I am saved!
I woke up this morning and decided to make it a bad day lol
I got up and took my shower; then gave my 2 youngest a shower. We all have curly hair except for my second girl, so I comb their hair after I put in the conditioner for easier combing (their hair tangles bad!). Well, my 3 year old always stands on the far end of the tub, so I have to stay bent over and leaning forward to comb her hair. Suddenly I had a horrible spasm in my lower back; which I have had before but I'd quickly adjust when it started and never had a problem afterwards. Well today was the worst that it's been, and now it's been hurting all day. I came down and looked it up, looks like I probably pulled a muscle in my back, but it felt like if I moved the wrong way that I may break something (like get a hernia or such, not that I expected to break my spine lol).
My back is a sensitive area for me, I've had a lot of back pain, and I worry more about damaging my back because I have scoliosis. I have never been diagnosed, but it's obvious that I have it, my back's so crooked that I only have a hip on one side, and I can feel the curve of my spine with my fingers. Plus, every time the anesthesiologist tried to give me an epidural with my kids, they always tried to tell me to sit up straight, which I was as much as I could with the scoliosis! I remember them trying to hold me in such a way to straighten my spine, but it's just not that easy. We never had the money for a spine specialist, so I've never gone to see what we might be able to do about it. The pain is pretty mild compared to how bad it was when I was an adolescent (I had constant back pain for years, learned to just ignore it); and I'm hoping it goes away within a couple of days. If it lasts more than a week or two then all of the websites I read say to go get it checked by the doctor; but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that and just gets better on it's own. Working this weekend will be fun if it doesn't get better, they already give me flack for not being able to carry the large trays since I injured my wrist by falling on it twice; now it won't bend back without causing me a lot of pain. (Joint problems run in my family, my feet and ankles pop when I walk, and we hurt our joints really easily, I have problems with my knees, wrists, and ankles a lot. I have a whole assortment of braces lol!)
On the plus side, I went to see one of my best buds tonight, we're both super busy so it's unusual for us to be able to spend much time together. She had a new place and I wanted to go see it, it was fun! It's nice to get out of the house and away from the bustle for a little while. Poor hubby had to deal with everything alone after working all day.Guess I owe him one now lol.
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