#spinal problem

[anftherapy]

Spinal stenosis occurs when the gaps between the vertebrae narrow, compressing the spinal canal and putting pressure on the spinal cord and nerve roots. 😣 This can lead to pain, weakness, or numbness, particularly in the legs and feet.

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[healmaxclinic]

Bulging and herniated discs can cause a tremendous amount of pain, which can radiate throughout the body, especially to the arms, legs, feet and hands.

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Our Treatment

Diabetes

Spine

Heart Blockage

[doomedfromthewombfr]

My body’s favorite hobby? Gaslighting me into thinking I’m fine until I move. Then it’s like, ‘Haha, just kidding- suffer’

[redpandavvstuffs]

"We need more clomplex female characters!!!"

Yall mfs couldn't even handle her 💀

[onlytiktoks]

[cpunkwitch]

Hi I need people to remember scoliosis isn't the only back issue that exists

I've had multiple instances where I talked about my back issue, stating a defect in my spine causes me chronic pain, and people respond with "so do you have a form of scoliosis?"

NO. not only does this show how little people understand scoliosis but that scoliosis being the first thing to come to mind means other back problems and spine conditions are not known well enough and we need to fix that.

Start talking about your conditions, talk about your back problems, explain what you experience and listen when people talk about theirs.

Don't let the world continue to be ignorant and assume there's only one condition for you to have, don't let peoples ignorance out you in a box, that happens way too often and the only way we can solve and prevent it is if we don't stop talking about it.

Bringing awareness to things is the only way we can stop having to deal with situations like this where people are ignorant and make assumptions about our bodies based on our age, appearance and their limited knowledge.

And for the able bodied folk, don't talk over us, listen and learn and help us spread awareness. PLEASE

[nikkalick]

I have chronic back pain, have for a while. It’s not so bad now that I had surgery, but I lived with it for years. I tried to go to a doctor for it, but they just said to lose weight, so I learned to live with the pain until one morning I couldn’t get up from bed. Couldn’t move without feeling like electricity was running up and down my back, burning my spine and leg from the inside.

This had me back in front of a doctor who (thankfully) listened and then for an entire year my insurance jerked me around requiring that I try different methods to manage the pain before finally agreeing to cover surgery.

In that year leading up to surgery something inside me broke. I couldn’t do the most basic tasks. Having to learn how to move my body in just the right way so that I wouldn’t lock up trying to wipe my own ass is one of my least favorite memories. Next to it is a tie between falling at my sister’s wedding because my leg gave out and being in so much pain I couldn’t sleep for days on end. I couldn’t sit, couldn’t drive, couldn’t bend or twist or even lay down without feeling like my nerves were on fire.

Work accommodated but I felt useless. I couldn’t lift inventory anymore. Couldn’t do a key part of my job that I (oddly) enjoyed doing. Commuting the hour to school twice a week was excruciating, but it was my first year of grad school. I had to push through. My professors were kind, they accommodated so that I could be as comfortable as possible in class. But I felt like a distraction, a nuisance, a bother. It was so hard to focus on lectures and homework when 90% of the input my brain was receiving was that of pain.

I grit my teeth and bore it, my mental health hit a new all time low, and I broke down in front my my mother more times than I can count. And I did this for a year because insurance refused to cover surgery unless I proved to them I needed it. I had to jump through their hoops and play by their rules to get the procedure I needed and that my care team knew I needed. I lost feeling in my leg and foot because they made me wait.

I will forever be grateful for the doctors who listened, for the physical therapist who advocated for me, for my mom who surprisingly became my rock during the whole ordeal. But my insurance company? They can go fuck themselves.

My pain before that year was bad, but not excruciating. My pain now? It’s minimal. Sometimes I still lock up and I’ll likely never have all of the sensation return to my left foot, but I’ll take the constant pins and needles over that year of pain any day. That said, had it gone on much longer I genuinely don’t know if I’d be here typing this.

Anyways…I guess what I’m saying is IF he did it, I get it. I really really get it.

[love-laugh-lobotomy]

disability stuff (and some loosely related comic book panels as a treat)

One thing about me is that I absolutely adore a disabled character that doesn’t want to be ‘fixed’. Fuck your ableist standards of ‘normal’.

I have a learning disability. I have a mental disorder. I have large scars. I have a spinal prosthetic. I have vision problems. I have sensory problems. I used to have mobility issues. I’ve had canes and back braces.

I don’t want a ‘fix’. I’m not broken.

I want acceptance and accessibility. (using Harvey as an example because I remembered the 2 pictures buried sdeep in the depth of my camera roll and wanted to use them)(also he’s so pretty)

[jacks-weird-world]

does anyone else doubts that jack's 6'2? 😅 I mean he's tall but sometimes I see a photo and he seems shorter

(also i hope you have happy holidays, i got into this weirdo a few weeks back and your tumblr is godsend:)

thx, gal. Happy Holidays for u too. 🎉

He has some complex or fear of decreasing in height because he has back problems. Height loss can happen as you age due to osteoporosis of the spine and other conditions that also affect the spine. I also have the impression that he's not very tall, but 1,88 cm is well above average, for example, for Brazilian men.

[chronic--experiences]

After years of putting it off, I finally got my first cane.

Definitely having mixed feelings about it. I’m worried about judgement coming from people who have seen me move around without a cane, and people claiming that I’m faking a disability because I’m young.

At the same time it’s such a relief to have something that provides me with more stability while moving around. My left leg has gotten so weak and I’m constantly scared of falling after my leg has given out multiple times (once on a flight of stairs)

I’ve got great friends who are super supportive of me finally getting a mobility aid and are willing to fight anyone who looks at me funny, but it’s definitely going to get some taking used to.

[rosehipandroots]

hey do the other fused spine peoples out there legit struggle to describe how it feels to have a bad back day to a normal non-quarter-metal person or is it just me

[rival-the-rose]

I was going thru this year's surgeries for unrelated reasons and now I can say that I personally have profited approximately $1000 this year from French Bulldog breed-specific maladies, specifically BOAS crises and elbow Y-fractures.

So I guess I have financial incentive for Frenchies getting even worse!

[gir-posting]

IMMINENT CHRONIC BACK ISSUES AHOY

[weepycat]

Man I am so sorry people were being dicks about you taking goop in when she was pregnant. Thank you so much for sharing the little gooplets with us, and good job surviving those fuckers who can't read.

THANK YOU, LOL. honestly people have gotten better since then, and that post is very dear to me -- goop & pumpkin gave us a gaggle of great cats, including two of mine, and now i get to make sure they're comfortable.

i hope goop lives a few more years! she's very wobbly but she's eating and drinking just fine <3

[marmorada]

I love waking up to my 67 year old father having a 14 year old girl style silent treatment bitchfit because he's decided overnight I'm faking my hand problems for mysterious reasons and I just love being humiliated by going to class without properly brushing my hair & also do it on purpose to, idk, screw him. Because somehow this has anything to do with him at all. I guess I need to be more understanding of his apparently grievous pain and ruin my hands even more so he can stare at my hair or whatever the fuck reason this bothers him so fucking bad.

[anaalnathrakhs]

the thing with ugliness isn't that i believe i'm inherently gross and disgusting, but i know and i mean i KNOW i look and act weird. i know for a fact i hold myself in weird ways, i cannot for the life of me stop seeming out of place everywhere, i'm incapable of acting natural, and i just can't be arsed to put any effort into my appearence cause it's so fucking complicated and i have no idea what i want anyway. it's not that i'm not salvagable by a makeup artist, a costumer, a personal etiquette trainer to fix my posture, and a good photographer, who could enhance the looks i have. most people look great when dolled up smartly. the point is that i am not a makeup artist, a costumer, a personal etiquette trainer, and a good photographer, i can't and won't do that to myself.