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i pulled my back somehow last saturday. i'm convinced it has something to do with the mattress i was sleeping on, or that i am somehow actually physically active in my sleep, because god knows that i don't do ANYTHING in my waking hours that would hurt my body. except slouch at my desk chair. or slouch at the bar stool. or slouch in front of the TV (speaking of TV, rip vmars).

i've pulled my back before - i have bad joints in general so i'm really used to being completely uncomfortable constantly and in pain, i'm thoroughly convinced i actually have junior arthritis - but this has lasted almost a week and is really bad. in fact, i can't bend over, whatsoever, and bending over, it turns out, is an integral part of living (no dirty jokes, please).

put shoes on? can't do it. pick up shampoo in shower? nope. dropped a pencil on the floor? i'll stare at it, forlornly, for five minutes, till somebody else sighs exasperatedly and gets it for me. it's a pain! in the back! ha ha! HOW THE FUCK DO I MAKE IT STOP? am i going to have to go the ryan avent route and eventually get steroids shot into my spine or eyeball or something?

in other completely not related news, i meant to mention this in the ratson's post down below, but the night we were there was the regular stetson's trivia night, and i'm telling all y'all that used to do trivia at fado's: we would CLEAN UP. two example questions that i heard, i'm not lying at all:

"are happily and easily adverbs? true or false?"

"if you mix equal amounts of red and blue paint, what color do you get?"

Comments

[Jake]

Yeah. I basically accidentally won their trivia night a year or so ago--a couple of friends and I sat down for a beer and decided to play along, and smoked the "competition." It is ludicrously easy.

[OffSeventh]

I did the same thing on Monday...I feel for you! Ice Ice and more Ice...it helps.

[matty]

Did you throw your lower back out? If it feels like something in your nerves and not in your joints, you might try Alleve or another anti-inflamatory. It'll take some time to heal, but if you sleep on your back and take the anti-inflamatory right before bed, it should eventually help. You may need to see a doc to get stronger stuff. In general, only time heals it, if it's like my back problems.

[alkali]

Sounds like a back spasm. Go to a doctor. If the doctor confirms that it's likely a spasm, she will prescribe a muscle relaxant (perhaps Flexeril). Go home and take care of anything that needs taken care of for the next 24 hours, and then take the muscle relaxant, preferably close to your bed. You will wake up without back pain.