In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Brag all you want, Brenda !!!
Just teasing a bit. Could you please send it south of the border? Thanks! in advance. 
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Brag all you want, Brenda !!!
Just teasing a bit. Could you please send it south of the border? Thanks! in advance.
Hey Kiki. I would soo love to send this wet stuff south of the border. And the fog as well.
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Geez...
The pain took a serious downturn today. Wasn't that bad while I got my molds for my teeth, but I didn't sleep well last night... I turned out I wasn't actually getting teeth pulled today and we're doing them all next month, and even though it's old hat for me now just the littlest thing can screw with my sleep these days...
After I took a nap it's been bad. The worst it's been so far. I have to roll out of bed and get down on my knees and brace myself to get up. I can't get to a sitting position from lying down without an extreme amount of pain. Once I'm up and moving around it's not too bad. It's also hardly notible while I'm laying down. It's just the act of trying to get up that makes it flare up.
Not noticing any discoloration on the surface or any puffed out tissue down there, and I still don't feel sick.
I'm wondering if maybe I have a stone.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SIX, apparently you didn't check out the link that I posted on back pain v kidney pain, so I thought I'd bring that here
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Kidney pain ... won't get worse with movement ... it usually won't change with movement
https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-pain-vs-back-pain
I passed a kidney stone once. It was right up there with giving birth in terms of pain; blessedly it was much shorter than labor! It hurt so bad, I could barely breathe, and lying down didn't help. Neither did sitting up or writhing in pain. All I could do was sit and pant until it went away ... after four hours.
Given that the pain is really associated with movement, it might be a muscle spasm, a slipped disc, or a severely pinched nerve. Does the pain radiate down your leg? Is it associated with numbness or inability to hold urine or stool?
Seriously SIX, try a heating pad, try ibuprofen, try rest ... try all of the above. Try to move the situation in a direction and see what helps and what doesn't. If aggressively treating it like a back spasm doesn't help in a couple of days you really should see a doctor.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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I've been using a heating pad while de-hoarding for the last 4 or so hours now.
It's gotten even worse now. It's almost as bad as it was after I fell on it years ago, and it hurts no matter what I'm doing... even lying down. Once I'm up it still hurts quite a bit, but it's manageable. It's actually better when I'm standing than while I'm lying down. Trying to get up it feels like I just don't have any strength because the pain is so bad.
I don't exactly know what it is I did to my back all that time ago since I never went to the doctor. I'm thinking at this point the sneezing that I've been doing since the weather turned might have thrown something out of alignment or something.
I can't afford a doctor. I'm putting $4,000 on dental work right now. I'll just have to rest and hope it goes away soon because I need to be working soon with the unemployment almost out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well I'm really worried about you SIX. Don't you have any friends or family to appeal to? Someone who can check on you to make sure you just haven't curled up on the floor of an unheated house and died?
I'm still going with something muscle-related, maybe even a muscle tear. People have a lot of small muscles attached to their ribs and spine.
So REST, damnit. Stop trying to power your way thru this, whatever it is. Do whatever you need to do to make it better, even if it means grabbing a bunch of pillows and sleeping semi-reclining on a couch, or propped up against a wall on a futon on the floor, and popping the maximum recommended dosage of ibuprofen and tylenol for several days. (There's a problem with muscles: pain begets spasm begets pain. so just easing the pain can speed you on the road to recovery) Hot pad helps but be aware that you can get a significant burn when lying on one, pressing against even a low-heat hot pad. (Ask me how I know) That's why I like the chemical heating pads: the heat is so mild it will absolutely not burn. Stay warm enough so that you don't bunch up from the cold. Keep a bottle of water nearby, and an empty bottle or bucket to pee in. You shouldn't have to do this for more than three days.
But just on case, who is your emergency contact? Who can boogey over to help in case some new sympom appears? Please, give it some thought!!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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I've got family. They're in the know about it today. Unless this is something really serious that I haven't considered, I doubt it will ever get to the point that I couldn't at least crawl over to the phone to make a call.
If that were to happen, somebody would probably come check up if they couldn't get a hold of me. Back in my drinking days I sometimes went weeks or months without being in contact with anybody. I talk to everybody 3 or 4 times a week now that I'm sober. It's very unusual for me to get a call that isn't returned within 8 hours, and since they know of my back issue I'd like to think that they've got my back.
I think I know why I thought it was an infection of some sort though. You don't really notice chronic gas issues when you live alone. You just don't. But I have them. And when my back is screaming at me I have to imagine whatever is going on is causing some swelling, and that swelling is not playing nice at all with the gas. Risking TMI again, it's like opening a valve and relieving pressure when I can let one go or I go to the bathroom. It doesn't make the pain go away completely, but it immediately feels better afterward. I think I'm going to try to go a day or two without eating anything while using the heat pad and see how that goes.
That won't be easy, because my appetite hasn't been effected. I still show zero signs of being feverish or otherwise ill.
Maybe I'll set up my new firestick and see if there's anything worth watching on Netflix. The political stuff has been agitating me more than usual because of the back pain. I think I need to shut the brain off for a while. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Running though your list of symptoms, I can't imagine what it could be. Some of your symptoms point in one direction, but other symptoms point in the opposite direction. Some of the possibilities could be very serious.
Do you have a county hospital nearby? I don't know about Indiana, but here if you arrive at an ER by yourself they have to take you. If you arrive by ambulance they might wave you off, on the excuse that you're being medically stabilized. Can you drive yourself at this point?
BTW, when I woke up with some serious pain that was causing me to start to black out every time I picked my head up off the pillow, there were 2 things I couldn't imagine doing - getting to the phone to call 911, or getting to the door to unlock it for them. If you can, as a backup plan, keep a phone literally at hand - and I do mean AT HAND very literally - at all times, and leave at least one door unlocked while you're going through this.
And try to determine a crisis point at which you'll definitely call family and/or 911. Try to VERY SPECIFICALLY come up with contingency plans.
I hope you come out of this OK on your own Jack !! But don't be afraid get help if you need it.
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If I can't get into a standing position at any point I think I'll consider that my crisis point.
It actually feels somewhat better right now. I'm not eating or drinking anything and mostly just laying down on the heating pad. Feels a lot better than it did last night and earlier this morning when I woke up. We'll see how it goes.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm glad it feels a bit better! And I'm glad you have a trigger point! Sometimes you can 'slow walk' yourself into a bad situation step by step because you don't have a point that you won't go past, and every little step seems not too bad by itself.
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