Long Tom
Stainless
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2011
- Location
- Fiddlefart, Oregon
I was splitting wood several days ago and reached down to pick up a chunk I’d just split and ka-POW.... shooting hot pain in my lower back. I had to use the splitting maul like a cane just to get back to the house.
For reference, I’m mid-50’s and have been splitting wood in large quantity for 30 years as it’s how we heat our house. But, it appears it finally got me.
If I get up and move around it gets very sore and spasms within an hour or so. If I’m flat on my back I can feel it but no spasms.
I know this is impossible to diagnose on the internet but still, I know a lot of you have hurt your backs, and any words of wisdom you learned would be greatly appreciated. Hell, I’ll settle for words of pity. This sucks.
The pain is very low, mainly on one side. However lying here it feels like the injury is a few vertebrae up from where the spasms/pain are happening, if that makes sense? Maybe not. Hard to tell.
Should I bother with a doctor? Are they just gonna want to do expensive imaging then tell me rest it and take ibuprofen? Should I consider a chiropractor? Never been to one.
For reference, I’m mid-50’s and have been splitting wood in large quantity for 30 years as it’s how we heat our house. But, it appears it finally got me.
If I get up and move around it gets very sore and spasms within an hour or so. If I’m flat on my back I can feel it but no spasms.
I know this is impossible to diagnose on the internet but still, I know a lot of you have hurt your backs, and any words of wisdom you learned would be greatly appreciated. Hell, I’ll settle for words of pity. This sucks.
The pain is very low, mainly on one side. However lying here it feels like the injury is a few vertebrae up from where the spasms/pain are happening, if that makes sense? Maybe not. Hard to tell.
Should I bother with a doctor? Are they just gonna want to do expensive imaging then tell me rest it and take ibuprofen? Should I consider a chiropractor? Never been to one.