Three seconds of inattention and I can't do anything for days. Swinging between pissed off and borderline depressed. This sucks.
I hate having a bad back
Three seconds of inattention and I can't do anything for days. Swinging between pissed off and borderline depressed. This sucks. -- Drew |
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Re: I hate having a bad back, sorry to hear, I have one as well luckily at the moment no pain
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I used to have one.
More walking, better posture at work, standing and stretching for 3 minutes every 30, and a hard latex mattress have made my problems pretty much go away. Not saying it will help for you, but there was a point a few years ago where every other day it hurt to move. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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especially the bed. I have slept on a thin futon on the floor for many years, it helps
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The most comfortable beds we've had:
The futon we had in college, and the latex mattress we have now. The latex matters has 4 layers that can be switched around or replaced if necessary. 5 years old and it still shows no signs of canoeing. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Do you know the brand off-hand?
We've got a Sealy almost-pillowtop something or other that is two sided. We were religious about turning it every month for the first few years, but it still developed depressions. J's sister has a magical mystery foam thingy that they seem to like but always swallows me when I lay down on it. I naturally move around at night, so it's like torture for me not to be able to move in it... Thanks. Cheers, Scott. |
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thats what I like about futons, pick it up and shake it back into shape
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My waterbed does not get depressions . . .
. . and is very easily adjusted for firmness and temperature. I do have to burp it every few months though, when it gets noisy. I do get mild lower back pain under two conditions. One is staying in bed for much more than 9 hours. This goes away in a few minutes after I get up. The other condition is pick and shovel work, especially digging holes. That takes a little longer to go away, but not a lot. |
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Yeahbut...
Do they make anything approaching a "waveless" water bed anymore? J is a very light sleeper. I can imagine her killing me from getting seasick the way I move around... It looks like there are some that claim to be, e.g. this one, but it looks like we'd have to change our headboard and footboard, bedframe, etc., so that's probably a non-starter. Thanks. Cheers, Scott. |
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My local supplier tried to sell me something like that . . .
. . last time it was new mattress time (about every 15 years), but I don't need anything like that. So far nobody has had any problem sleeping, even though I do move around a fair amount - the waves seem restful. My big disappointment was during the big Whittier Narrows earthquake - it hardly made any waves at all. The only real problem has been with women who snore really, really loud in the wrong frequency range and in the wrong position - It can act as an amplifying echo chamber.I think some of the fancier versions might dampen that - but I haven't waited to find out. One woman, afraid of snoring, brought a CPAP machine. Let me tell you, her snoring was nothing compared to the leaf blower sound of that diabolical machine. Fortunately she fairly quickly realized that and turned it off, so I got some pretty good sleep after that. There are times when the cure is much worse than the disease. Personally, I think snoring is an extremely serious problem for many people, and I don't think our health care industry is giving it even 10% of the attention they should be giving it. For the record: I have been reported to snore, but only a couple times in my entire lifetime. That was when lying flat on my back, but unless I am really totally physically exhausted, I can't fall asleep (or stay asleep) flat on my back - it's my waking up position. |
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I snore a bit too.
The "nose strips" (stiff band aids you put across your nose) do help some (though they usually peel off my nose a little by morning). I hope it never gets so bad for me that I need a CPAP, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Thanks. Good luck. Cheers, Scott. |
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I used one for years.
Basically filled with pillow stuffing. Worked to dampen. My brother uses one that is a series of water filled tubes. No movement between them. I now use a foam temperapedic ripoff. |
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life-saving waterbed
A chum relates the story from forty years ago of smoking in bed (unwise) and falling asleep with the still-lit cigarette (doubly unwise). The fire did not initially wake him up. The fire melting the plastic waterbed envelope, causing the contents to cascade over him, did. Hilarity ensued, not. He was, however, able by dint of vigorous splashing and thrashing to smother the flames with the now-charred bedclothes, and escaped with only minor burns. Cleaning up his basement apartment afterward was something of an ordeal. cordially, |
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Yowza!
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Sleep EZ
https://www.sleepez.com We bought the 13" with 4 layers, but if I were to do it again I'd stick with the 10". The 13" mattress is extremely thick. The king is two separate stacks of latex slabs, which means that you can J could have two different setups with respect to firmness. The break between the two sides also means that movement doesn't transfer much at all. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Thanks very much. Gotta do some studying...
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Our backs are a weak part in the design.
I had never had issues with mine until I tried to shift some storage shelves at work without noticing that the bottom shelf had dug into the linoleum. (yank, yank, *pop* - ow - that didn't sound good.) It took about 3 weeks before I could use the clutch in my car without pain. As Scott says above, try to stretch. I hang from the top of a doorway for a minute or so every night and gently wiggle my back around a bit. I also do leg presses occasionally to try to stretch out my knees and muscles in my legs - they're all connected after all. It seems to help, but I know things still aren't right so I have to be gentle with it. I hope you find a way to get back on your feet soon. Good luck. Cheers, Scott. |
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also I use a book and a doorway to press out kinks.
place haedcover book between back and door frame, press strongly against the opposite side of door and listen for the popping sound you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer |
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Oooh. Sounds scary, but worth trying. Thanks.
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chiro taught me that one, press like doing a pushup
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Sounds like an upper back trick?
This is lower. Might try it anyway. -- Drew |
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no. place book right against tailbone, lean a little forward then try it
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Re: I hate having a bad back
Got opiates? I messed mine up trying to get a kid's birthday cake out of a shopping cart a couple years ago while visiting Washington. Managed to drive to urgent care where I got a stack of vicodin and methocarbomol. I spent three days in my hotel flat on my back and out of my head ordering room service before I could walk out. (It required a fireman's carry from the bellhop to get me to my room in the first place). I think once you turn 50 you should get an opiates and muscle relaxant allowance for shit like this. |
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Wouldn't help (much)
Mine is a disk pushing on a nerve. Muscle relaxer would help minimize spasms, but wouldn't do anything for the underlying problem. -- Drew |
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Is surgery an option?
I had a L5 lumbar lam 4 years ago. It no longer requires days in the hospital. I had a synovial cyst on my spinal chord which shut my legs down almost completely. I showed up in the morning for surgery, in the afternoon the doctor walked into the recovery room and said "Get off the bed and walk". I did, and they sent me home that afternoon. I wasn't supposed to driver for a couple weeks and I had some light physical therapy. I can walk miles again and I consider 450lbs. to be medium weight to leg press at the gym. Spinal surgery isn't as scary as it used to be. If it is an option, you should consider it. "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." ~ AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) |
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Hmmm ...
Four years ago it was an option, but only if PT didn't work. I'm mostly good now, but it'll be worth asking if it happens again. -- Drew |