Bad back

[Tony Baloney]

Jim, the wife's uncle has serious back trouble in his late 40s to such an extent he had to quit work as he was a Bank Manager and couldnt sit for any period of time. Although quitting golf was the bigger issue! Throughout this time he avoided surgery as the thought of it scared the shit out of him. Eventually he could take no more and went for surgery in Dublin and it transformed to an extent he took up gardening for people.

Hope you get sorted on the 6th.

[Gaffer]

Jim, the wife's uncle has serious back trouble in his late 40s to such an extent he had to quit work as he was a Bank Manager and couldnt sit for any period of time. Although quitting golf was the bigger issue! Throughout this time he avoided surgery as the thought of it scared the shit out of him. Eventually he could take no more and went for surgery in Dublin and it transformed to an extent he took up gardening for people.

Hope you get sorted on the 6th.

Hope Lewis from Coronation Street is reading this. He s got a bad back at the moment and it s what is keeping him from humping gorgeous Gail!!!!

[Tony Baloney]

Jim, the wife's uncle has serious back trouble in his late 40s to such an extent he had to quit work as he was a Bank Manager and couldnt sit for any period of time. Although quitting golf was the bigger issue! Throughout this time he avoided surgery as the thought of it scared the shit out of him. Eventually he could take no more and went for surgery in Dublin and it transformed to an extent he took up gardening for people.

Hope you get sorted on the 6th.

Hope Lewis from Coronation Street is reading this. He s got a bad back at the moment and it s what is keeping him from humping gorgeous Gail!!!!

I'd be hobbling about like a Derryman on the DLA if that was ahead of me 

[Mayo4Sam]

Jim sent u a PM there, hope it's a success. The most important thing is to get into the physio ASAP after, even better if it's one u can trust to trust u if you know what I mean. Who'll say listen do A, B, C and if there's no pain then onto DEF as soon as u can and if he says every two hours then get down to it.
If its any help I had mine on 13th dec last year and have cycled over a 1,000miles since and ran the marathon, brought home the turf and and shook the fertiliser, just need to make sure I keep doing my core exercises

[Cold tea]

I have been attending physio for several weeks, 3 weeks ago she started using acupuncture, I swear my back has made huge improvements.

[JimStynes]

Good man Mayo and the others for the PMs. Some really good advice and reassurance for me. Operation is now scheduled for 13th Dec at some stage in the other. Hope it will be a success.

[JimStynes]

Got great help from this thread the last time so going to try again!

Had the operation in December there and everything went well. Was back up walking about within a couple of days basically pain free. Since then I have been going to the gym, playing golf, cycling, swimming and running. I have completed a few cycling events and a triathlon. Total different man from this time last year where I was basically in constant pain, sleeping max 2 hours per night and I could hardly walk.

I havent been able to back to playing football though as I still get a tiny bit of pain at the top of my right leg and a bit of pain in my lower back. I dont think I would be able to bend down to pick up a football while getting shouldered and tackled. This past few weeks though this has started to get a little worse. I was meant to compete in a triathlon this morning but dropped out as I dont think I could have sit on the bike and ran. Swimming doesnt seem to bother it too much. I am probably being paranoid but I dont want the sciatica pain coming back. Would really love to be able to play football again but dont know if this is as good as it gets recovery wise.

Anybody had any similar experience to this?

[Milltown Row2]

Got great help from this thread the last time so going to try again!

Had the operation in December there and everything went well. Was back up walking about within a couple of days basically pain free. Since then I have been going to the gym, playing golf, cycling, swimming and running. I have completed a few cycling events and a triathlon. Total different man from this time last year where I was basically in constant pain, sleeping max 2 hours per night and I could hardly walk.

I havent been able to back to playing football though as I still get a tiny bit of pain at the top of my right leg and a bit of pain in my lower back. I dont think I would be able to bend down to pick up a football while getting shouldered and tackled. This past few weeks though this has started to get a little worse. I was meant to compete in a triathlon this morning but dropped out as I dont think I could have sit on the bike and ran. Swimming doesnt seem to bother it too much. I am probably being paranoid but I dont want the sciatica pain coming back. Would really love to be able to play football again but dont know if this is as good as it gets recovery wise.

Anybody had any similar experience to this?

That is a shit one Jim, was that the Omagh Triathlon? Nothing worse than back problems, touch wood I've been lucky enough. You'd need to see if it's the same problem for before the operation. You could have picked it up from something done at the gym, running on the roads to something else.

Get back on the waiting list and hopefully you won't wait too long to get it seen to

[JimStynes]

Got great help from this thread the last time so going to try again!

Had the operation in December there and everything went well. Was back up walking about within a couple of days basically pain free. Since then I have been going to the gym, playing golf, cycling, swimming and running. I have completed a few cycling events and a triathlon. Total different man from this time last year where I was basically in constant pain, sleeping max 2 hours per night and I could hardly walk.

I havent been able to back to playing football though as I still get a tiny bit of pain at the top of my right leg and a bit of pain in my lower back. I dont think I would be able to bend down to pick up a football while getting shouldered and tackled. This past few weeks though this has started to get a little worse. I was meant to compete in a triathlon this morning but dropped out as I dont think I could have sit on the bike and ran. Swimming doesnt seem to bother it too much. I am probably being paranoid but I dont want the sciatica pain coming back. Would really love to be able to play football again but dont know if this is as good as it gets recovery wise.

Anybody had any similar experience to this?

That is a shit one Jim, was that the Omagh Triathlon? Nothing worse than back problems, touch wood I've been lucky enough. You'd need to see if it's the same problem for before the operation. You could have picked it up from something done at the gym, running on the roads to something else.

Get back on the waiting list and hopefully you won't wait too long to get it seen to

Aye im going to go see about it. Thankfully it is nothing anywhere near what it was before, just dont want it ending up that way again by doing too much or something. I want to find out if it is going to get better or whether I am going to be left by having some degree of pain or weakness in my back. I mainly want to get back playin football for another couple of years.

No it was the lough neagh sprint triathlon, was really looking forward to it too.

[Milltown Row2]

Well hope it works out for ya

[Main Street]

You could manage the pick-up if you genuflected
Genuflection is about the only useful thing the church teaches.
I'll give my thoughts on full blown sciatica in a while but my lumbar is telling me loudly that I've passed my computer use limit now.

[Mayo4Sam]

JS, core work is vital, I find if I leave it for even a few days I can feel the old aches coming back and its only a matter of time before they turn into real pain. Keeping up the core work I can do everything else like triathlons, lifting 50kg bags of fertiliser, bringing home turf.
Football is the one thing I stay away from, too much contact, you're only running the risk of a reoccurance.

But i'd love a game