What REALLY grinds your gears?

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by mooby

This is very interesting - I could def. do with going back to the gym as I stopped after fracturing my wrist last year - and then as soon as that healed it was barely 2 months later and now sciatica is bothering me. Appreciate the tip jamf. Definitely something to look into while I wait.

Things that grind my gears: Doc sends over imaging order for MRI, I call Inova to schedule it and have to wait on hold 10 minutes just to talk to someone this morning who takes down my info and then tells me a scheduler will call to set it up. Wait all day and finally get a call at 5:30 while I'm at the grocery store and the paperwork is at home. Call them back as soon as I get home and she says first available date is July 17th. Normally I'm not one to complain but I've been living with this pain for 6 weeks now and idw wait another 3 just to get an actual diag before a plan for treatment is made. So I bitch and the scheduler says if I call my doc back maybe they can work with my insurance to schedule a same/next day appt. So now gotta do that tomorrow.

That is definitely frustrating.

To be honest no one really has a “cure” for back pain. You could very well be over it by 7/16. 6 to 8 weeks is the normal lead time for it to heal.

I know when mine is getting better by how far up my leg the pain is. The closer the pain is too your spine / ass / lower back the closer you are to it being healed.

[Giantone]

If I can add in one more time. Checkout your bed situation and if you go foam , don't go cheap, Tempur Pedic is the best...seriously.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Giantone

If I can add in one more time. Checkout your bed situation and if you go foam , don't go cheap, Tempur Pedic is the best...seriously.

I appreciate that G1 but I already have a new mattress en route... Brooklyn Bedding honored their 10 year warranty and shipped a new firmer one out to me for free. No new warranty on it but original warranty with 5 years left still applies.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by mooby

I appreciate that G1 but I already have a new mattress en route... Brooklyn Bedding honored their 10 year warranty and shipped a new firmer one out to me for free. No new warranty on it but original warranty with 5 years left still applies.

That's a sweet deal. MTK is right mattress's are through the roof but in our case it was a have too. The Mrs. had major scoliosis surgery years back that stretched her torso 3ins.Spent two months(summer) in bed and couldn't carry a gallon of milk for a year but never missed one day of teaching .

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Giantone

That's a sweet deal. MTK is right mattress's are through the roof but in our case it was a have too. The Mrs. had major scoliosis surgery years back that stretched her torso 3ins.Spent two months(summer) in bed and couldn't carry a gallon of milk for a year but never missed one day of teaching .

Yeah I hear ya, I did a lot of research when I bought the original 5 years ago because I know how important a good bed is - you spend a third of your life sleeping so obv. don't wanna cheap out on something like that. Even found a forum where they get super technical about in the ins and outs of buying a mattress (the jist is that Big Mattress is a scam lol).

Sorry to hear about your wife, that sounds like an absolute motherfucker to deal with. Is everything better now?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by mooby

Yeah I hear ya, I did a lot of research when I bought the original 5 years ago because I know how important a good bed is - you spend a third of your life sleeping so obv. don't wanna cheap out on something like that. Even found a forum where they get super technical about in the ins and outs of buying a mattress (the jist is that Big Mattress is a scam lol).

Sorry to hear about your wife, that sounds like an absolute motherfucker to deal with. Is everything better now?

Thanks. Manageable. It's something she was born with and wasn't bad at all when we got married but child birth and time accelerated the prosses .Take care of it or she becomes a crippled were the choice's .She does ok ,she does laugh when people complain about back problems,....LOL....I know better.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by mredskins

That is definitely frustrating.

To be honest no one really has a “cure” for back pain. You could very well be over it by 7/16. 6 to 8 weeks is the normal lead time for it to heal.

I know when mine is getting better by how far up my leg the pain is. The closer the pain is too your spine / ass / lower back the closer you are to it being healed.

Interesting anecdote mred, because the most severe pain is on my leg just above my ankle.

I still haven't been back to the gym but it's starting to look like my #1 option, my insurance denied my MRI and my doc (who I've only had 1 phone appt. with so far) has his receptionist working on it for over a week now with no update.