Monday, March 15, 2010

Ugh

As I was getting ready for work this morning, I bent over and twisted to the side. And felt agonizing pain unlike I had ever felt before in my neck and shoulder. Pain bad enough to make me nauseous and dizzy. Hard to see, hard to drive, hard to concentrate on anything kind of pain.

I can now say, after a trip to the chiropractor plus my workout at the gym this afternoon (scaled down to relatively easy as more of a stress reliever and loosen up the muscles kinda workout) I think I would prefer to go through childbirth without medication than to deal with this ever again.


This has happened before, and usually happens every 3-4 months on average. But nothing with pain EVER this bad before.

The good news? The chiropractor thinks he can put my neck and back into proper alignment, and I will be seeing a massage therapist to keep the muscles from tensing up again and forcing everything out of alignment.

The bad news? I'll have to deal with some pain for the next few days. Just what I want with a 13 hour drive one way ahead of us.....

The really good news? It was not arthritis that was causing my hip to ache like mad every morning to the point it was hard to walk in the mornings. It was simply my back being out of alignment.

I'll be back with some pictures of the happenings that went on over the weekend - nothing exciting, but we are delivering 1 horse to her new owner tonight. Hopefully I don't have to do anything invovling driving to get her over there...... or turning my head.....or lifting anything.....

Kris

7 comments:

Val said...

Oh this sounds just terrible. I hope you feel better soon. Be careful.

Nancy M. said...

I hope they get you straightened out! I hate that kind of pain!

Janet said...

Oh dear, I feel for you, this is exactly the same affliction I have, my chiropractor and the massages really help keep it under control. Fell better soon.

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LuAnn said...

Hi Kris Hope you are feeling a lot better by now. This warm weather will help I'm sure.

country mouse said...

Oh ouch!! Sorry to hear about the back pain, but thankful to hear your chiropractor can get you feeling better. Back pain is the worst! Hope your feeling better soon.

Scrappy quilter said...

Kris, hoping you're feeling better soon. Also I would suspect one of your comments might be spam.