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Title: Re: [RC]   Linda's Back Pain

Hi Bruce, if you’re still there,

I was able to see my rheumatologist today and he confirmed that the pain is my sacroiliac joints. He ordered x-rays and Oh, by the way, the last set of labs indicated something was going on with my liver. So I had to get labs too.

I had chiropractic manipulation before, it made it much worse. No, I don’t do manipulation anymore. Even my brother-in-law, who is a D.O., makes me hurt worse.

I have been pain free for about 5 years but before that I got so bad that I couldn’t work at all for a year and a half. I am a pet groomer and I have been successfully managing my body for the last almost 5 years. I want to be able to continue to be a pet groomer and to ride endurance. Part of me wants to do the Tevis in order to encourage all the people who are crippled by their Fibromyalgia, so that they can know that they can learn to recover. I also want to do it for myself so that I can see that I was not crippled forever, because there was a time in my life when I thought I would be in intense pain forever. Forever unable to sleep, forever unable to walk down the street, forever unable to sit in church and listen to the sermon without having to get up and pace.

Linda



On 9/21/05 8:36 AM, "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Linda--
> You should inform your rheumatologist about this flare up of pain that 
> seems to be coming from the SI joints, as they are commonly affected 
> with ankylosing spondylitits. Your case must be mild if you haven't 
>  lost much flexibility through the years. Touching your toes is not, in 
> my opinion, a sign that all is well with your back. It takes multiple 
> body parts functioning normally to do that safely. If, for example, your 
> hamstrings are short, you will have to strain your low back to complete 
> the rest of the movement to bend over and pick up a ten dollar bill off 
> the ground.
>   Ice and DMSO might help, but use dilute DMSO. It can burn your skin. 
> Does stretching by pulling your knees to your chest one at a time help 
> or hurt? Have you successfully had manipulation? Are you taking 
> glucosamine and/or chondroitin? Two-pointing may be more comfortable (or 
> less painful) than posting for now.   Bruce