Back Pain Tips

Only thing i could suggest is to pay real close attention to the positions you sit, lay down, bend over and stand that seem to trigger it and try to avoid those things. That’s what I do anyway. Mine is triggered by putting too much pressure on my left hip when sitting, so I sit so that most of the weight is on my right hip and cross my left leg over my right if I feel it trying to act up. It also helps so lay on heating pad, atleast it feels better than the pain.
Also there’s a certain position that triggers it on me when I bend part way over, like when making a bed. I let someone else handle those things for me that require that particular angle.I also stopped sleeping on that side along time ago because i noticed after sleeping on it all night, I would wake up to it. Since I’ve been doing these things, it has cut it down considerably. If I over do something, then I’ll feel like or if I sit too long. I try to limit how long I work on something so it doesn’t sneak up on me.
Any ways, I tried physically therapy one time years ago because it would flair up occasionally, they had me going 3 times a week. By the end of the second week, it was hurting almost constantly, so I quit. Seems like it just had to run it course and it finally got back down to where it was before I went.
If you ask me, I think it must have caused inflamation in there or it irritated it some how, because it’s NEVER hurt like that again since I quit going. I’ve had others tell me the same thing, so, I just try to avoid things that I’ve found that irritate it and I go for long periods now without it. I feel an occasional twinge, and I just act on it right away,
I also have MS and I’m in a wheelchair constantly. I have tremor, and vertigo and muscle spasticity among other things, but I’ve learned to manage these symptoms quite well without medications. They had me on 12 different kinds at one point on top of my weekly injections. I noticed that every time I lifted something with my left arm, it would go into a tremor, so I just stopped using my left arm, and started using my right one to lift things instead, and it doesn’t bother me.
Same with Vertigo, if I turn my head to far to the right to look behind me, I spin, so I just turn my whole self around instead. And the spasticity only happens if I over-do, so I just take breaks. The only meds I take now are my weekly injections, which is supposed to help slow down the progression, and prescription motrin or excedrin.
They told me it couldn’t be done without medication and physical therapy. I went from not being able to stand at all or even bathe myself, to being able to stand and transfer myself in and out of the tub. I just went to PT long enough to learn the exercizes and had my husband help me do them at home until I could do them on my own. You just gotta pay attention and listen to what you body is telling you, that’s all. There’s usually a warning sign first, a twinge or a tightening of that muscle, even feeling tired can be a warning signal.

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