Review: Back pain sucks I've only been suffering months
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2013
I bought this book because I have dealing with lower back pain for months. I injured my back working on the job putting in hundreds of 42" steel framed LCD monitors. I went to work busted my hump did all this crawled around on the floor running wires and other components for an Arcade Manufacturer. At first when I hurt my back I took a couple of days of vacation. Then I came back to work for a half of a day and had a weekend. I came back and started working like nothing was wrong with a powerful motivation feeling great... I went to kneel down onto the floor and work on some wiring and bam my back went out I could not stand it had to go in to the docs for medical treatment. It was crappy to say the least the doc said that I needed to be off work for the next week so while I was off layed in bed worried and helpless not knowing what to do I slept and got relief from my heating pad. (Which does help for me...) I slept and woke up all day long just hoping the next time I woke up I would be ok and able to move finally after 5 days of sleeping and moving very limited I was able to move a bit. For years I have weighed between 250 - 280 I go about 260lbs at the time of writing this but this is where I feel most comfortable at 6' 1" I have been a brick house just solid like a tank not ripped but able to rip anything up in my way I feared lifting nothing and was always called on when help was needed and I would gladly get to it. Back to my story I was getting better so I finally was able and willing to start physical therapy I went going there at first I could barley arch my back I was completely stiff but after about a month and a half of appointments and religiously doing the workouts at home provided I graduated from physical therapy my back was feeling lots better while not 100% it was good. I wore my back brace at work for another week as the doctor said it was needed. During this time I was on "Light Duty" which was is such a "JOKE" my job said they had office work I could do when I came back but they threw me back out onto the floor and expected me to just work and told me ask for help when I needed it as it is a requirement when you lift things. So I figure what the heck if I hurt my self it is on them I can't just quit my job and walk away! So I got out of my back brace and felt pretty good then we get these deluxe gigantic games to work on and they throw me on monitors. They aint that bad but once they are in a huge 55" wooden box with 1/4" plexi glass covering them and you have to move each one 4 times you learn very quickly these are no light weight objects grossing easily over 100lbs even with help were hard to lift. Now keep this in mind my job put me on the heaviest thing KNOWING that I had just gotten over this injury well guess what I hurt my back again this time I said nothing did nothing as I feel helpless as if I am wasting my breath and mad and ready to retaliate all in one. I got out the back brace and started wearing it faithfully every day again. Which was a couple of days that's it cause I had a few days off coming for vacation. The 16 hour car ride was brutal but I made it there and back my back was still in pain but I just kept doing what I had to do when I came back. After about a week or better it stated feeling OK so I took my back brace off and worked nearly 100% of the day and bingo 5 minutes before the bell rings I am lifting something this time light maybe 40lbs and it felt like someone had jabbed a knife into me! This is where I am now for the most part after reading this book my goals have now been to get back into the exercise routine and hope that my job does not effect my health further but I have been in pain for days now and today I had the same sharp pain again and would you believe a fellow employee had the nerve to ask me to lift a pool table after knowing that I was in massive pain luckily after saying yes he said never mind I have an idea but I am very upset at the lack of compassion that people have for me for 8 years I have helped people who were not able mentally or physically lift things by taking their place if someone was injured I was always the first one to say no no your hurt let me do this for you!Why is there such selfish non caring individuals in this world just floors me! It makes me sick almost to the point that I would like to muscle some of them bad back be damned. It is very frustrating I wish that people would appreciate all that I have done and help me as I would them. Society is like a deaf ear it feels while it may not be I feel as if I have been taken advantage of for the last 8 years.I don't know weather this book or anything will brink me back to mule status. But I am willing to try nearly anything and I will begin with exercise after I get some padded mats as the floor kills the tailbone. There should be something by now why medical phenoms do not have simple and effective solutions to such an age old problem just floors me! I see Duke has been working on disc repair....I was told by my physician that I had muscle related pain but this is with no xrays, no MRI's no nothing I happen to believe that could be true possibly as muscle strains can last for quite some time.... But I hope to heck whatever it is gets better soon! I am 32 years of age and have a lot of life to live!This is my story and my review sorry if it was too long. But thank you for this read!