Today, I have severe back pain that is only relieved by lying flat on my bed. I also have acid reflux that is only prevented by sitting straight up. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I'm fit, but so exhausted from work that I hardly managed to even climb the stairs. Yet, as soon as I sit on the couch for longer than half an hour, my butt starts hurting. So I guess it’s either reading a book lying on my stomach, which makes my back hurt, or hanging upside down from the ceiling like a bat. FML
Today, I have such chronic back pain that I can usually never get comfortable, but I found the perfect position to lie in bed, and was nearly 100% pain free. I felt so good. Someone knocked on the door, so I had to answer it. They'd got the wrong house number. I couldn’t find that perfect position again. FML
Today, I awoke to an excruciating pain in my back from sleeping in the same position all night. I can't wipe my own ass. I've already gone to shit twice. FML
Today, I ended up in the hospital due to a severe acid reflux attack. I knew I had acid reflux for years, but was never allowed to get it checked out. Why? My dad told me I was too young to have it and that I was making it up. I now have to see a specialist. FML
Today, I woke up with my back super sore. I couldn’t get out of my bed without crying and great difficulty. The last time my chronic pain was like this it went on for three months and I could barely move. It was absolutely awful. FML
Today, I was suffering from acid reflux. I was told that drinking water laced with baking soda would help. Nope, all it did was create a huge belch that made me vomit all over myself. FML
Today, I realized just how sedentary both my work and home lives are after I went to the doctor with a rash on my butt and he diagnosed it as bedsores from near constant sitting. FML
Today, I sneezed so hard that I threw my back out. Now my back is in agonizing pain, and I can barely walk. FML
Today, I got back from a holiday. I've been suffering from debilitating muscle spasms in my back for over a year, causing migraines and immobility. After all the physical therapy, drugs, and tests, it seems it was caused simply by my mattress. A week of sleeping in the hotel bed completely alleviated it. FML
Today, I'm sitting in agonizing pain following a scoliosis surgery. I have a bunch of painkillers that I need to suppress the incredible back pain, but looks like I can't take any, because my mom has hidden them from me because she thinks I need to be taken off them. I wish my doctor was here. FML
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BlowinChronic 18
Sit up at an angle to partially relieve both! It's bound to work!
rvnclwprfct731 13
Don't they make medicine for stuff like that?
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rvnclwprfct731 13
Don't they make medicine for stuff like that?
PinkKawaiiChic 10
Yep, take a couple tums and and a pain killer!
GothickNihilist 15
Some people do not like taking pain killers, due to the high risk of addiction. I refused to take narcotics, due to a large amount of friends and relatives, who have become severely addicted after sustaining injuries. OP could have a history of addiction, or share those personal views on narcotics.
Roevera 14
Pain killers. Not even once.
lilhellian 27
PIlls for the acid reflux.. And then lay down for back..
sens3sfailing 25
~You know what might fix this? cocaine.~
firefighter925 18
get you some nexium!!
lizzi02 13
I have acid reflux. Sometimes the medicines don't help fully. Or they may not be able to afford the meds they need for it, sometimes they get pretty pricey
LittlestPrincess 21
I have severe back pain. the only medication that helps a bit has HUGE side effects. when you compare the side effects and how much (or how little ) it helps it's just not worth taking the risk.
kakarot2 11
She can take the tums and lay down to fix the headache.. No "addition" will happen. Problem solved.
kakarot2 11
Tums!!! Damn it auto correct.... MODS Y U TAKE EDIT TIME AWAY FROM IPHONE APP??? We need it back!
browneyedgirl52 13
By painkillers, they mean Advil or Tylenol which do not pose a high risk for dependency.
shannonreneee 11
OP can take pantroprazol (probably spelt wrong) or somac (brand name) for the reflux! Pain is way harder to manage than reflux (I find).
ShyAnn29 15
60, how do you know that what they meant? Anyways I have to take narcotics for my pain (Fentynal) luckily I haven't become addicted to it.
Spottedfeather 7
Can't afford to get a pack of pills off the shelf at walmart ?
mariah3269 4
43: I thought it was back pain
leadawg75 12
Sometimes medications don't workfor severe acid reflux. I have it, and have taken many different medications for it, and none of them help. I'm sorry OP!
Charity Taylor 17
it's entirely possible that they're like my boyfriend and medicines doesn't actually have any effect on them.
BlowinChronic 18
Sit up at an angle to partially relieve both! It's bound to work!
MCRaddict15 15
This actually sounds really effective, but slightly painful.
browneyedgirl52 13
You could put pillows under your mattress so it is raised at an angle so you are laying flat but also sitting up.
ToxicxKitten 9
What a vicious combo. Try tying yourself to a flat board and putting it at an upward angle?
emeraldisle 30
Time to find a happy medium OP. Hope you feel better soon.
SPRKY 6
I wonder if the OP has a lazy-boy recliner.
1217jonathan 15
Lets hope so , good luck op!!
Jeffo193 13
Call a doctor rather than going on FML.com, they can give you painkillers and something to combat the acid reflux.
genericfmluser 17
not ever one can pay for them.
CharresBarkrey 16
Best advice I've seen on FML yet.
Jeffo193 13
78. Sorry, being from a country with free healthcare, i forget sometimes that this can happen. Also i'm on my phone so i can't see where OP is from :-P why do Americans not want free healthcare again?
Charity Taylor 17
cause it takes us up to a 20 min wait for our appointments and we get treated quicker and easier as opposed to waiting forever constantly for any time we need a doctor.
naya_bingi 11
Prilosec OTC and Advil. You're welcome.
pradip 26
**** gravity, go to space. Costly, but effective.
mario2012 18
That was actually creative.
thepunman 11
Shoulda had a V8
missababgaga 19
Well at least you don't have unpredictable and explosive bowel movements to go along with those things. Though what you have is still quite unfortunate of a combination.
SoMuchWut 8
Time to defy physics