I hate the human body

[Stoney Mason]

I stayed up really late playing some game last night and now my back is fucked up for some reason. I can barely move. 

Last time this happened I knew somebody who had some sweet prescription muscle relaxants but that person isn't my neighbor anymore so now all I have is lame otc medicine.

Anybody have any tricks for a bad back?  The pain and tightness is like high up in my back on my left shoulder blade it feels like.

[Mupepe]

go get a thai massage and do some squats and deadlifts!

[Stoney Mason]

How were you positioned? On your side, leaning on your elbow?

You mean when it happened or now.

When it happened I kinda have this shitty chair I sit in that's only a few feet from the TV. I kind of sit all hunched over in it. I should just invest in a good chair but hindsight is hindsight. I do this thing where I pop my neck to relieve tension occasionally but when I went to do it last night after having it done it all night suddenly it hurt like a bitch. So I went to bed hoping it would just feel better in the morning.

It didn't. It feels worse. There is like this tightness in my upper back on the left side. If I lay perfectly still on my back in bed it feels better but if I move or twist any at all it flares right up. If I'm standing up I can't really bend down. I mean I can but it hurts so I don't. Taking a shower this morning sucked.

I took some tylenol this morning but it didn't really feel like it did anything so I'm gonna take some advil now.

[Stoney Mason]

Thx for the advice. I took some more tylenol and advil which is also an anti-inflammatory like aleve. It feels a little better but not much. I also have been laying on a heating pad.

I'll try to sleep on my back tonight.

[Yeti]

I have difficulty falling asleep on my back, I always have to sleep on my side.

[huckleberry]

I have difficulty falling asleep on my back, I always have to sleep on my side.

I actually find it impossible for some reason.  I get terrible headaches a couple times a day from smashing my face into my pillow at night. To combat this I tried to force myself to sleep on my back and could not fall asleep for the entire night.  After trying for two weeks I gave up. 

[etiolate]

I saw my doc months ago because I was having lower back pain and some smelly pee. I thought it was my kidneys. My doc said I was just out of shape and ate too many veggies.

It was my first getting old moment. I have never been out of shape, but I can't just skinny my way through everything now.

[muckhole]

I get terrible headaches a couple times a day from smashing my face into my pillow at night.

I'm trying to wrap my head around this. How hard are we talking?

[lennedsay]

Fuck doctors and fuck back pain  :'(

Every time I see my doctor, he tells me I have some other condition or illness (which I very well have, but just didn't tell anybody about like it would just go away). I would rather know all at once instead of this one-at-a-time shit.

When I did yoga, that's when my pain was at it's lowest, fwiw. Yoga

[huckleberry]

Pretty hard. I wake up most morning with a stiff neck and pounding headache. My forehead will have a large red mark on it. My wife has caught me doing it and wakes me up when it starts......I haven't had a week full of good sleep in years.  :'(


I am about to homo my ass out and start some yoga. Maybe that is what I need as well.

[Diunx]

Lately just standing for like 2 minutes gives me lower back pain, am I getting all or do I have some freak lower back cancer?

[muckhole]

Pretty hard. I wake up most morning with a stiff neck and pounding headache. My forehead will have a large red mark on it. My wife has caught me doing it and wakes me up when it starts......I haven't had a week full of good sleep in years.  :'(


I am about to homo my ass out and start some yoga. Maybe that is what I need as well.

Jesus. You must be having some crazy-ass dreams to go along with that. Wild.

[TEEEPO]

i have 3 dislocated discs in my lumbar as well as the entirety of my spine getting pretty much fucked in a car accident, so take it from someone who has to live with back pain for the rest of his life, do stretches, yoga/tai chi and exercise, specifically swimming, walking or biking, daily! never be stationary, it's the worst thing you can possibly do to your back.

[TEEEPO]

I have difficulty falling asleep on my back, I always have to sleep on my side.

I actually find it impossible for some reason.  I get terrible headaches a couple times a day from smashing my face into my pillow at night. To combat this I tried to force myself to sleep on my back and could not fall asleep for the entire night.  After trying for two weeks I gave up. 

try sleeping without a pillow? i find them to do more harm than good.

[huckleberry]

Just now dawned on me - maybe my wife is trying to smother me in my sleep.   

[lennedsay]

That bitch. 

Start poisoning her in her hot tea.

[Diunx]

Sounds like something TVC would be into.

[lennedsay]

I think I saw it in a movie one time, only it was spit.

[Barry Egan]

So I'm doing this yoga work-study right now.  Fold towels, clean washroom, get free yoga.  It's hot room yoga and you basically do all the poses in a sauna.  I was dizzy and nauseous by the end of my first session but the next day I felt good, and had an almost manic amount of energy.  Also my posture is improving alot.  If you have hot room yoga around you should definitely give it a shot.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Could someone explain to me why your fucking body can't just go to sleep when you fucking tell it to? Who's supposed to be in control here, me or it? Is this the real reason people commit suicide, to show their bodies who's boss?

[lennedsay]

I thought I was doing pretty good. I'd go to bed, and I'd go to sleep.  (or so I thought) I knew I was a light sleeper, but I seriously thought I was asleep.

But I noticed that I wouldn't have dreams. I hadn't had a dream in years and years and years.

When all this health shit came up recently, my doctor sprung up on me that I'm an insomniac and I only think I'm sleeping, but I'm never really asleep. Meds are great though. 

[Phoenix Dark]

Was gonna give some tips, but then I realized you injured yourself playing videogames - not sports. SMH, no advice for you sir

[Brehvolution]

If you sleep on your side and get lower back pain, sleep with a pillow between your knees.

I have one under my top arm as well. Nothing beats a good body pillow to straddle. If only they made one with boobs.

[Diunx]

If you sleep on your side and get lower back pain, sleep with a pillow between your knees.

I'm gonna try this, was thinking about getting a new pillow anyway.

[Cormacaroni]

  HOT TIP FOR SLEEPING COMFORTABLY, WHETHER YOU HAVE BACK PROBLEMS OR NOT

Most people naturally slump into a position that crimps their spine when getting into bed. Whether you sleep on your back or your side, you can make yourself hugely more comfortable by simply stretching out your spine as you lie down. If you lie on your back, lower yourself down on your hands with your spine curled forward. Stretch out your back as you hit the mattress. Give this a shot right now and you are in serious danger of losing half an hour, totally unplanned. Real talk.

It works just as well on your side, once you get used to the sensation of stretching it out. Do this right and you can sleep well on a hardwood floor.

[Cormacaroni]

Could someone explain to me why your fucking body can't just go to sleep when you fucking tell it to? Who's supposed to be in control here, me or it? Is this the real reason people commit suicide, to show their bodies who's boss?

To get serious, my hypothesis is that we have evolved mechanisms to protect us from sleeping in potentially hazardous environments. For 99.9% of human existence we have slept in caves of some sort, in pitch dark and in near absolute quiet. So naturally, we find it harder to sleep when there is light or noise, since that indicates that predators etc may still be around.

It takes quite a while for the stimulation of playing games or working on PC to wear off, and even an LED alarm clock in an otherwise pitch black room can trigger that state of raised alertness again, making it difficult to drift off. So you have to learn to taper off in the evening, and cut out those kind of stimuli before you want to go to sleep. There are some cool apps for gradually decreasing the brightness of your monitors as the sunlight fades - think they were covered on Lifehacker recently.

Either that or lift really fucking heavy weights at some point during the day, then take a hot bath just before you want to go to sleep. You'll be out like a light, guaranteed.

[Groogrux]

Cormac to the rescue with real talk again!

[Dickie Dee]

Could someone explain to me why your fucking body can't just go to sleep when you fucking tell it to? Who's supposed to be in control here, me or it? Is this the real reason people commit suicide, to show their bodies who's boss?

To get serious, my hypothesis is that we have evolved mechanisms to protect us from sleeping in potentially hazardous environments. For 99.9% of human existence we have slept in caves of some sort, in pitch dark and in near absolute quiet. So naturally, we find it harder to sleep when there is light or noise, since that indicates that predators etc may still be around.

It takes quite a while for the stimulation of playing games or working on PC to wear off, and even an LED alarm clock in an otherwise pitch black room can trigger that state of raised alertness again, making it difficult to drift off. So you have to learn to taper off in the evening, and cut out those kind of stimuli before you want to go to sleep. There are some cool apps for gradually decreasing the brightness of your monitors as the sunlight fades - think they were covered on Lifehacker recently.

Either that or lift really fucking heavy weights at some point during the day, then take a hot bath just before you want to go to sleep. You'll be out like a light, guaranteed.

I sleep much better by getting rid of all light souces and covering my LED. I even wear a sleeping mask to shut out all light - to counter the fruitiness of wearing the mask I got one that has "CAN'T SEE SHIT" printed across it.

[Third]

I only use my pillow when I sleep om my sides. Sleeping without a pillow is very comfortable for me.

[Barry Egan]

Was gonna give some tips, but then I realized you injured yourself playing videogames - not sports. SMH, no advice for you sir

He's probably not even going to take the advice to do yoga  :'(

[Stoney Mason]

For what its worth it feels a lot better today. I basically also slept with a heating pad on it all night and have been on a healthy diet of tylenol and advil. It's still not perfect but its a hell of a lot better than it was yesterday where I basically had to stay in bed all day.

[Mupepe]

I thought I was doing pretty good. I'd go to bed, and I'd go to sleep.  (or so I thought) I knew I was a light sleeper, but I seriously thought I was asleep.

But I noticed that I wouldn't have dreams. I hadn't had a dream in years and years and years.

When all this health shit came up recently, my doctor sprung up on me that I'm an insomniac and I only think I'm sleeping, but I'm never really asleep. Meds are great though. 

i do that sometimes.  i don't dream and i don't feel rested when i wake up.  it's some odd state between sleeping and awake.  i hate it.  it happens on stressful days or nights when i'm not tired but i tell myself to close my eyes and try to fall asleep and eventually i'm just there sitting still with my eyes closed for hours and i don't realize it until something jolts me and i realize i've been like that for hours.  i hate it.  worst feeling ever.