Also, do you have a good support brace, something elastic, that will cinch in your muscles and give you support as you walk around...
...to be worn a while....taken off....then worn some more.
..I don't know what you have access to.
Did you ice it first...?
..that's recommended...
If it's muscles....they just take time....
I have done the most stupid things to throw my back out...
Rest a lot, but move too....you need to move...
..also, I know a good stretching exercise...I'll go to Private mail now....also to rec. a good medication.
I have one ben gay patch and several lidocaine patches. I have some good braces and I do get up about every half hour. Saturday I even stood for 10 minutes! LOL!
It is the change of position that bothers me and I need to take care to keep pressure off the bottom of my spine. It will take some time.
One thing has me concerned, if it was muscle damage, shouldn’t the muscle relaxants have helped with the pain? They absolutely did not. The pain is centered around the bottom of the spine with just a little extension into the upper back thigh muscles. That has me thinking maybe there is some damage to the bone that just wasn’t caught on the x-ray. That is why I haven’t ruled out a med-evac completely.
Oy vay! I’ll do the stretching exercises. It is a little too early for that.
At the moment, I have flat on my back with my legs hoisted higher than the hips. It makes for funky typing.