Bed Rest

It’s been 6 years of back pain. Usually after I sleep, it’s ok in the morning but last week when I woke up still in pain, I decided we’d just have to find the money somewhere.

I wanted to see a chiropractor but someone in the medical field preferred me to find a physiotherapist…Do you know how hard it was to find a female chiropractor? I don’t know how hubby did it.

I saw her on Friday and my lower back was horribly misaligned and in the wrong position. Remember my coccyx pain from 2010/2011? Yep. That was a sign but because the x-ray showed that the actual bone was fine, I also ignored the pain. I was (My sacral area or something to that effect.) tilted upwards and slightly twisted and therefore squashing some muscle and stuff. The theory is because of the loosening of joints during pregnancy, my small frame and the fact that I had back to back pregnancies, it all became too much and didn’t go back to normal. Plus the normal deliveries played a part.

It was my first chiropractic visit. Had visions of painful manipulations and so when she said I needed an adjustment, my heart sank. But she softened it up with a massage, though she said my shoulders and back show I have the weight on the world on my shoulders and am extremely stressed-which is true.

But it wasn’t sore. Both times.

She put me on bed rest for 72hours. Not so good cos hubby’s not in the country. And I’ll go back today. We’re both hoping today will be the last treatment. And hoping the muscular trigger points will be fine without needing extra treatment too.

Hoping for an end to the torture that has been my back for so many years.