The inflammatory pain in the gluteal area that I wrote about in October and November has for the most part subsided now. I’d say things had calmed down a lot by December 1. I had taken the Prednisone, and that helped. But, I think the biggest help was really time. You really just have to …
November 29, 2021 So, I just completed the latest course of Prednisone. As I’ve discussed before, I’ve gone through the Prednisone scripts maybe four times or so since I had the major back surgery in August 2020. That was now 15.5 months ago. I’ll tell you, the more post-surgery time I get under my belt …
Well, what can I say except it amazes me how well this anti-inflammatory pill works for me! If you’ve looked at this site at all you know that I had a major back surgery 15 months ago. It was a two level fusion from s4->L1. And, I must have been in pretty bad shape because …
So, it’s in the title: 4th day back on Prednisone today on November 19, 2021. I see on Nov. 8, 2021 I say that the inflammation is finally going down. And, that was the case. And, I stopped taking classes because of the inflammation. So, I’ve been going to the gym daily but taking it …
November 8, 2021 So, it’s great keeping a sort of pain diary. I suppose this public website is my pain diary. The good thing is that you can really put things in perspective. I know it was on October 5, 2021 that I first started feeling just a bit of the inflammatory pain concentrated in …
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November 1, 2021 All the hip muscles First look at this diagram.. So, before I had a lumbar fusion, it was extremely easy for me to explain why I was experiencing pain. All the imaging and analysis had been completed. I could very confidently say, “I’ve got lower back pain—along with some other weirdness—because I …
For me, October 2021 will go down as Ouchtober, Around October 5, what I presume (HOPE!) was inflammatory pain originating from gluteus etc. starting thumping away. And, this pain (especially focused around butt and above butt) pretty much kept thumping through all of October. You wake up and wonder, “Is this going to go away?” …
October 27, 2021 It’s so strange the way pain works in my body…or maybe you could say it’s strange how my brain works as far as interpreting pain…and, I don’t mean strange as in unusual..I imagine I’m pretty typical…I mean strange simply as in it’s really weird how inflammatory pain just lingers around for 3 …
One of the things about doing this type of pain diary is that…well, the way pain works is sometimes really strange. And, this type of diary lets you really see that clearly. I’ll give you an example. The inflammatory ouchie lumbar bullshit pain started-up October 5, 2021 and slowly started ramping itself up. Yesterday, October …
Yea, so this feels like it’s been going on for a bit now. And, the pain level is definitely fading. But, there’s still enough there to get my attention and make me think about it. So, the pattern is that the inflammation arrives and lasts fr a while. And, this “a while” is starting to …
