>The doctors told me I would need to go through physical therapy in order to regain my strength and walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make things worse.

That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands.

A few years ago I ruptured a few discs in my back, and pinched the sciatic nerve between them. To be honest, I don't recall experiencing any other pain quite like that was. Even giving birth and having a super duper tooth ache didn't compare to this.

When it first happened, it sent me on my hands and knees. I couldn't move; I even had trouble speaking, because the pain was so intense. Thankfully my husband was nearby. I couldn't stand and it hurt to move, so my husband scooped me up and carried me to the bedroom and placed me on the bed.

I laid in pain for about 2 days, only getting up with my husbands help, to go to the bathroom. He told me I couldn't go on like this and that something needed to be done. He scooped me up again, carried me to the car, and off to the hospital we went. They done all sorts of examinations and knew quite quickly what I had done.

I was sent home with medications that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. After about 36 hours, I noticed that I was having a bad reaction to the meds. I swelled up like a balloon and wasn't able to urinate at all. We called the doctor whom told me to quit taking any and all meds for now, and to drink as much water as I could possibly hold, hoping to detoxify my system. Okay, so that worked, but what about this pain?

The doctors told me I would need to go through physical therapy in order to regain my strength and walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make things worse.

That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands.

e; I even had trouble speaking, because the pain was so intense. Thankfully my husband was nearby. I couldn't stand and it hurt to move, so my husband scooped me up and carried me to the bedroom and placed me on the bed.

I laid in pain for about 2 days, only getting up with my husbands help, to go to the bathroom. He told me I couldn't go on like this and that something needed to be done. He scooped me up again, carried me to the car, and off to the hospital we went. They done all sorts of examinations and knew quite quickly what I had done.

I was sent home with medications that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. After about 36 hours, I noticed that I was having a bad reaction to the meds. I swelled up like a balloon and wasn't able to urinate at all. We called the doctor whom told me to quit taking any and all meds for now, and to drink as much water as I could possibly hold, hoping to detoxify my system. Okay, so that worked, but what about this pain?

The doctors told me I would need to go through physical therapy in order to regain my strength and walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make things worse.

That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands.

me I couldn't go on like this and that something needed to be done. He scooped me up again, carried me to the car, and off to the hospital we went. They done all sorts of examinations and knew quite quickly what I had done.

I was sent home with medications that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. After about 36 hours, I noticed that I was having a bad reaction to the meds. I swelled up like a balloon and wasn't able to urinate at all. We called the doctor whom told me to quit taking any and all meds for now, and to drink as much water as I could possibly hold, hoping to detoxify my system. Okay, so that worked, but what about this pain?

The doctors told me I would need to go through physical therapy in order to regain my strength and walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make things worse.

That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands.

I noticed that I was having a bad reaction to the meds. I swelled up like a balloon and wasn't able to urinate at all. We called the doctor whom told me to quit taking any and all meds for now, and to drink as much water as I could possibly hold, hoping to detoxify my system. Okay, so that worked, but what about this pain?

The doctors told me I would need to go through physical therapy in order to regain my strength and walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make things worse.

That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands.

>The doctors told me I would need to go through physical therapy in order to regain my strength and walk proper again. Well who can afford that? And besides, I didn't want to have to make all those trips in the car again. Vibrations only seemed to make things worse.

That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands. I was going to beat this ordeal. I realized that by staying still for too long, made things worse. My entire body stiffened up. So my first goal was to get up and move. My husband was a great coach, despite the crying I did. Once on my feet, we walked (very slowly) back and forth in the bedroom. After about the second day of this, I was able to move a little faster and attempted the stairs.

It took a good month before I was back to normal, but I did it on my own. Why pay a therapist for the same thing you can do yourself? I will have to live with this condition for the rest of my life, but I learned from trial and error what makes it hurt, and what makes it feel better, and without medications.

I do have a word of advise here: When an injury occurs to a nerve within the body, especially on or near the spine; any vibrations will irritate it immensely. Riding a mower, using muscle massager's, even riding in a car at times will cause relapsed spasms to occur. But you can get through it without the heavy cost of therapists, and unneeded drugs, which usually have negative side effects in one form or another.