So many of you know Nathan has a bad back. When he was about 16 he hurt it at work and it's never healed properly. He was working as a tire tech and they really abused him as an employee. When he finally had to quit due to the pain they replaced him with 3 people! He was all but imoblie for about a month and then went to a chiropractor for awhile but that's it.
Anyways, it's bothered him every since, sometimes worse than others. He went to the doctor about 6 weeks ago and was sent to physical therapy to see if that would help. He'd been going twice a week for over a month and things weren't improving, so he went back to the doc and asked to get an MRI to see what is going on.
He got the results back about a week ago and they showed that he has a severly ruptured disk. Esentially the goo that provides the padding in his vertibre is oozing out and aggrivated the crap out of a nerve, causing him pain from his lower back down to about the back of his knee. They are sending him to a pain specialist. We're hoping they will have some non-surgical treatment options that will heal his back rather than just giving him drugs to dull the symptoms. He really does not want to get back surgery and it terrifies me, so hopefully we'll find a way to heal him. I was looking online and everything I read said it ususally takes 6-8 weeks to heal a ruptured disk...I wonder what it means if it's been 6 years...
If anyone has personal experience, or knows of someone who has had this injury, any insight into how they healed it would be greatly appreciated.
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