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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Enslaved 38
I've heard doing sit-ups might work. It probably won't make sense me saying it but working your core muscles will strengthen your back and losing weight (even a few pounds) might help with the acid reflux. I know a few people with the same combo pain and this worked for them. But in the mean time, FYL both seem very painful.
Pitbull305 9
realistic "low gravity" option- bathtub, pool, hot tub...it'll reduce pressure on the column and allow you to sit up.
SuzeDee 9
Stop drinking alcohol and coffee. Stop eating junk. Give your stomach a rest and fast for a while. Eat a plant based diet and your health will come back. :)
TechFire 25
Fasting is not a good way to lose weight at all. Eating healthier and exercising are the only healthy ways to lose weight. Not eating is just dumb and usually makes things worse in the end by slowing down your metabolism.
asb818 14
Acid reflux isn't always caused by drinking, smoking, being overweight, etc. Sometimes it is just an issue with the esophagus or stomach and can only be treated with medication. Why are so many people assuming the OP needs to lose weight?
bfsd42 20
There is no ailment that exists that can only be treated with medication. That's what they want you to believe.
crammer1 6
It's true. No matter what causes the reflux, eating foods rich in fat, caffeine and eating larger meals can make it 10 times worse. I did't read anything in the post about loosing weight. Just eating healthier.
horneyhic 15
What about Parkinson's, MS, Epilepsy or Cancer no treatment for those has much if any chance of success with out drugs
vilesiren 6
Perfect timing for both to kick in.
lilhellian 27
Go home cat you're grumpy! :D
loserman67 36
Bourbon -- answer to all your prayers. It makes everything feel better. Your back will stop hurting allowing you to sit up and thereby relieve your acid reflux. When you feel better, then roast a few slices of bacon in the oven and collect the accumulated grease. Drizzle a scant bit of the grease in your next glass of bourbon and slip of piece of cooked bacon into the glass. Sip the bourbon slowly as the bacon soaks in the flavor and vise-versa. Nibble the bacon as you sip the bourbon. Trust me in about an hour you'll feel great and won't give a shit about anything.
horneyhic 15
If u smoke pot it'll only take 5 min
sunkissedluster 20
Ain't that the truth! Don't believe the gov't's lies!! Never smoked it myself, but it shrinks cancer tumors like nothing else on God's green earth.
DocBastard 40
Shrink tumours? Really? So the government (which government is that again?) has been lying for decades? Marijuana is actually a wonder shrub that cures cancer! Of course, how could all of medical science be so wrong?? Sunkissedluster, you've done it! The Nobel Prize is yours for sure!! Moron.
sunkissedluster 20
THE government. I didn't say it cures cancer, I said it shrinks that shit like crazy. There's no money in it for big farma, durr. Maybe you should read a book some time in your life and learn something instead of stalking all my comments and thumbsing yourself up. Sanctamonious piss wank.
asb818 14
"THE government"???? Was I sleeping when all the governments of all the nations unified into a single government? I guess I failed history.
horneyhic 15
THC has been shown to strink tumors when injected into them you won't get that effect from smoking tho so she was partially correct doc
horneyhic 15
Mid 1930s convention on marijuana resulted in most countries outlawing it. All of the information used in that decition has either been disputed or proven wrong
catkat1988 17
Take a proton pump inhibitor? It won't fix your back, but it'll at least allow you to lie down without the acid reflux. Or alternatively, ask your doctor for a stronger/another pain killer. And know that if you're taking NSAIDs for pain, then they may be causing the acid reflux. I don't know how chronic or acute your back problems are, but if they are acute and you're suffering from acid reflux, then maybe something narcotic (i.e. Vicodin if you're American) might be a better option. Just beware of the risk of addiction.
qirde_15 5
lie 45 degrees. slide horizontally or vertically depending on the severity of your condition
charvisioku 22
Do sit-ups.
CynicalWolf 9
Go halfway! Ya know, take out a thingymabopper and measure 45 degrees.