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Jan. 28th, 2012
and gentle exercise
Jan. 28th, 2012 11:22 pmSo my back was feeling bad enough this morning that I ended up taking it to the doctor.
Her verdict was that it was most likely muscle sprain/strain. (She prodded my vertebrae and noted no pain from those.) She also said that the way I got up from my chair when coming over after being called was pretty much textbook.
Treatment: no convenient instant-fix, unfortunately. Painkillers (ibuprofen and paracetamol), deep heat (ointment or patch), and gentle exercise.
I've taken the paracetamol and currently have a heat patch on my back, and I have to say that it does feel better. Not fixed yet, but better. And there's the psychological aspect that now when I bend over and it hurts, I can tell myself that I'm gently stretching it and it will improve, rather than worrying that I'm going to make it worse.
Still wish I hadn't done whatever I did to it, though.
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The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality. Thus if you had been trying to damn your man by the Romantic method — by making him a kind of Childe Harold or Werther submerged in self-pity for imaginary distresses — you would try to protect him at all costs from any real pain; because, of course, five minutes' genuine toothache would reveal the romantic sorrows for the nonsense they were and unmask your whole stratagem.
-- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
Her verdict was that it was most likely muscle sprain/strain. (She prodded my vertebrae and noted no pain from those.) She also said that the way I got up from my chair when coming over after being called was pretty much textbook.
Treatment: no convenient instant-fix, unfortunately. Painkillers (ibuprofen and paracetamol), deep heat (ointment or patch), and gentle exercise.
I've taken the paracetamol and currently have a heat patch on my back, and I have to say that it does feel better. Not fixed yet, but better. And there's the psychological aspect that now when I bend over and it hurts, I can tell myself that I'm gently stretching it and it will improve, rather than worrying that I'm going to make it worse.
Still wish I hadn't done whatever I did to it, though.
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The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality. Thus if you had been trying to damn your man by the Romantic method — by making him a kind of Childe Harold or Werther submerged in self-pity for imaginary distresses — you would try to protect him at all costs from any real pain; because, of course, five minutes' genuine toothache would reveal the romantic sorrows for the nonsense they were and unmask your whole stratagem.
-- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis