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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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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Comments (119)
Moody_Trudy 1
I get pretty terrible acid reflux too sometimes. I feel your pain OP, get well soon.
janettelove9 1
i always have the same problem!
chubbles 9
Defo gall stones and a hiatus hernia I'd say
Zacham 5
actually laying in your left side prevents acid from shooting up. "life long sufferer of GERD"
trulymickeyj 13
Omg I feel so bad for you. Call the doctor, I hope you get better!!
thestig 4
You might want to try acupuncture, OP.
sxdryv 14
Ask your doctor about "Rabeprazole - I swear by it! Kills acid reflux. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabeprazole
gman90210 18
Ya that really sucks I know how it feels with the back pain the pain meds only help a little but that's better then none. But I am not as bad off as you are. I feel for ya good luck
gregorygreg87 12
Nexium, Priolsec, or generic omeprazole. I have acid reflux too.
surrealJC 4
it's probably acute pancreatitis or late stage pancreatic cancer.