Glad to hear all the positive news!
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Good job mate!
Hate to say it, but… I told you so
Stay positive, stay active and youll do fantastically
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Hi guys a little bit of update,it’s been over two weeks and I have been lifting heavy and regularly,today I started to feel a bit numbness on my left buttok.The pain is minimal as compare to what it used to be like daily last.The thing that fears me the most is that the pain will start to be regular again(Touch wood).If I don’t report back again on this post meaning there is no lower back pain,so my pain has come back today and hope it is just a one time thing or it is recovering and the pain won’t be regular
Youll be okay, a little bit of neural sensitivity (which causes the numbess) will be total normal while you get re-adjusted to loading
Going for a walk will make sure everything settles
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Thank you for comfort hope what you say is true and happen
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It seems silly, but you really can’t overstate the value of walking for your discs. It would be your major pre- and post-op instruction as well. The lumbar region is notoriously avascular, and there is no healing without blood; walking helps improve blood flow to the area all while helping force improved posture vs sitting in terrible positions.
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I was feeling really high and confident during the two weeks where I can workout without pain afterwards.Last Saturday when I feel the pain creeping back ,reality really hit me.There might be exercises or stretches that are flaring my herniated disc symptoms,or it is simply heavy weight that is causing my symptoms.Sad
Oh,btw I just bought a lever belt 13MM,would it be better to protect my back vs the prong leather belt I have??
Sorry to hear about the struggles! I know it doesn’t help, but that’s pretty much par for the course for chronic injuries - you’ll have good days and bad. The most practical advice I ever heard was to do 80% of what you think you can do while recovering. It’s going to be enough for a training effect but not so much you keep insulting the area.
The belt question can be its own topic, but I guess I’d just ask why buy a belt you don’t want to use?
I have a 13mm and a 10mm and actually prefer the 10mm for the way I lift (light and wussy, baby).
I was wearing a prong belt,so I thought lever belt would be more secure and tighten.I bought a 13MM belt,maybe it will stabilize my back more then the prong belt??
We’ve had a ton of belt discussions on here. I need to find all those and link them together.
Anyway, a prong vs a lever really comes down to convenience more than support. Once you get a lever where you want it, it’s pretty automatic off and on. I always preferred a prong, because I wear a belt differently for squat vs dead and sometimes I wear a sweatshirt or not, but then Pioneer made a lever that adjusted and I really like that.
13mm is definitely stiffer. There’s a flip side to that in that you will have to put a little more work into breaking it in and learning to use it (which isn’t a bad thing) so your brace fills the whole belt. Folks have squatted 1000lbs in a 10mm, but many of us love a 13mm. I’ve used both for a long time. I’m currently spending all my time with a 10mm, but that’s really because my knees have become a greater limiting factor than my core and the 10mm is a little more comfy.
All that to say - you really can’t go wrong. Use whichever makes you feel better and brace into it hard.
What’s the reasoning behind having good/bad days is a path to chronic injury??
I just finished my workout,and even though I am lying down on my bed but I do feel ache and numbness somehow.Luckily I am going to sleep soon as it is late night
I don’t think it’s the path, I think it’s the reality. Some days will hurt more than others.
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I mean if it hurts all the time vs it hurts sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t.Which is worst??
Yea anyway I am probably going the wrong way,because now my mindset is hoping and finding ways to workout without pain,but for the past year I have failed.Today I fail too,as I am experiencing some numbness an hour after my workout,and now even in lying position I do feel ache/numb on lowerback.
I did an mri last year and it shows L4-L5 L5-S1 disc herniation.My question is would MRI I did that day be able to find tight/strained muscle??
I am having pain on left lower back,and whenever my chiro pressed my Quadratus lumborum I feel relieved,it’s like a trigger point.Could my problem be tight/strain left QL rather then disc herniation which was reported on my MRI?
I rest every Sunday from my workout routine,and my pain is a lot better when it’s my rest day,so the issue is definitely due to me working out
Hypothetically yes but practically no. MRI is a pretty versatile technology, and technically can show us a lot in soft tissue (although so think it would take some interpretation wizardry to see a strain). Here they were looking at your discs, so they were purposefully ignoring skeletal muscle anyway.
I really couldn’t tell you. I think this a great question for the medical professionals you are paying your hard-earned money to physically examine and treat you.
Kind of a short vs long term thing here, most likely. When you rest, you’re reducing inflammation. That inflammation could bear some responsibility for narrowing the space between your abnormal disc and nerve root; pressing that nerve root hurts. When you let the inflammation dissipate, the disc moves away from the nerve root, and you get relief.
I would still suggest a lot of walking and planks in the short run. You get some blood in there, which helps heal, you improve the local musculature that supports that area which should improve the aforementioned space over time, and it’s not likely to leave you with inflamed tissues that will cause all this pain. Exercise doesn’t have to be a light switch that’s either totally on or totally off.
Good luck!
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Just posting here to say I feel your pain- had sciatica thanks to a disc issue as well and just today felt pain free. Did a speed workout so I’m curious/ a tiny bit apprehensive how tomorrow feels. I can sympathize with your frustration about oscillating back and forth and concern about re-injury.
Sounds like you’re on a good path to healing - I found my pain was often worse in the mornings, and changing up my sleeping position helped.
Hope your recovery has continued in a positive direction and hope you’re feeling great now!
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I have gone back to my routine and am happy that I am able to reach my target and goals in training,which is training six days a week but at reduced intensity of I think 20%.I am still feeling pain once every two day but it’s bearable and I use some oilment to apply at my Quadratus lumborum side.I am still not sure if my problem is herniated disc(Which was shown in MRI) or is it what my chiro said it’s muscle ache and not disc issue
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Why would it matter? You can’t do anything to heal a disc other than time, so if it were the disc you would continue training. If it’s the muscle, you would also just continue training.
Either way, management doesn’t change
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When I am in pain,I would focus and magnify it while trying to find ways to reduce the pain.It’s been another week of not having pain now,but also now limiting and adjusting the weight/intensity of my workout.I am at a happy point now and there is no pain for a week…I am grateful towards you guys and this forum even though I joined just three month ago due to my injury
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It’s ten days without any pain,I haven’t increase intensity and almost thinking of increasing intensity.Today I start to feel weakness and pain on my lowerback.I will maintain intensity for a long period or even back down,not worth bearing with the pain for the whole day after working out
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