Sooooo sorry to hear this...I have broken my lower back twice...ouch... it just is never the same once you've tweaked it. Get better soon! Yay... pain pills...

• Posted at 3:20 AM | By  sumo

damn! i am so very sorry. there is NOTHING worse than back (or tooth) pain.

please take good care and be well. i'll light a healing candle for you too - just in case. it won't hurt!

• Posted at 5:49 AM | By  Unknown

Aw! Thats miserable. Actually I hadn't noticed any pervasive sucki-ness. I'm easy to please.

• Posted at 12:19 PM | By  Lily

Dude, we must be connected by some cosmic deal. I did something funky to my right arm last Friday. Whatever I did messed up a muscle in my back. So for the past few days I have been using the mouse of the computer as little as possible because it hurts so much to move my right hand. Forget using my left hand for that because I tried and the cursor goes wild with my efforts.
I can't take muscle relaxers because they make me goofy.

Hang in there and we will surely be here when you feel like writing again. Like Elizabeth, I hadn't noticed any suckiness at all.

Take care :)

• Posted at 2:32 PM | By  pissed off patricia

Ouch. Take care and get well soon. You're badly needed.

Though I agree with EB that I hadn't noticed any sucky posts...

• Posted at 2:39 PM | By  Motherlode

Thanks for the warm thoughts. I really appreciate those that take a momnet to stop by.

• Posted at 5:37 PM | By  Yukkione

Hope you feel better. Be careful with the pain pills (especially if they are opiates). Big corporate terrorist pharma doesn't want you to know how addictive they are and how bad the withdrawals from them are.

• Posted at 8:11 PM | By  Citisucks

feel better man ... pain sucks ... I'm on "light duty" myself for a couple days because of whacking my hand on the job ... but it ain't nothing like a back problem ... you only have one back ... so ... anyhoo ... take care

• Posted at 9:31 PM | By  Rory Shock

Sorry to hear of your back problem, I've had the same thing. Get ready for a lifetime of back agony, as sometimes it takes just alittle misstep to injure it all over again. Enjoy the pain pills and muscle relaxers, just not too much.

• Posted at 11:00 PM | By  Lew Scannon

I had some pretty awful back problems about a year and a half ago, and I've been managing things (after the delightful muscle relaxants ran out) with a morning regimen of stretching--this book is a great resource for exercises for just about any affected area.

• Posted at 11:40 AM | By  Agen

thanks Agen, I'll see about ordering it. I've had problems for aver 10 years. omce in awhile it just gets really bad. I'm getting a MRI in the next few days.

• Posted at 11:51 AM | By  Yukkione

An MRI? Hope your not claustropohobic! A friend at work is having problems with her back as well, going to have an MRI and everything. Her problem has been diagnosed as arthritis.

• Posted at 11:33 PM | By  Lew Scannon

Arthritis.. OI! I have rumatoid factor in my bloodtest but none of the symptoms. I've had the damned back problems for at least 15 years. This would be the first mri though. Feeling abit better tonight, but then again I'm on all those meds.

• Posted at 1:05 AM | By  Yukkione

Yea, take care of that. Back problems can really mess a person up. I hope you feel better soon!

I hadn't noticed any suckiness in the posts either.

• Posted at 9:54 AM | By  gugon

Sorry to hear about your back, pal.
Of all the things on the body that can hurt, the back has to be the worst.

I had a herniated disc removed and spinal fusion done in 1979. The disc was starting to cut into the sciatic nerve on the right side of my back. Still have trouble now and then, but would be in a wheelchair now if I wouldn't have had it done.

Hang in there, buddy, I'm thinkin' about ya.

• Posted at 8:25 PM | By  Grandpa Eddie