Dakoda Loc: Cle Elum, WA

Problem is now that opioids are headline news, their afraid to administer anything that might become addictive. One thing that helps me is an exercise my PT taught me. Lie on your back, one ankle against you opposite knee. Pull lightly towards that knee, while turning your upper body the opposite direction. Gently stretch your back, and hold for 30 seconds. I give each side at least three stretches.

Dakoda Loc: Cle Elum, WA

HenryG Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts

Welcome home TC that's the problem with pain you really can't tell people how much it hurts. 🇺🇸😎👍

Big TC Loc: Raytown, MO.

That's a big AMEN!!!

Big TC Loc: Raytown, MO.

Your pain is caused by something different. My pain is being mainly caused by my spine deterating.

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

I have had 2 surgeries on my neck and 4 discs removed and 5 vertebrae fused and wired together. Lower back spine pinching on nerves running out.

Big TC Loc: Raytown, MO.

This is another reason why I don't want to do surgery.

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

I consider Myself being saved by an outstanding Neuro Surgeon back in 75 and 77 when I had my neck operated on. I was close to being paralyzed from the neck down. The end result did impact me physically due to stiff neck. In my competitive shooting, the essayist position, prone, became hardest because if you can picture this, laying on floor I could not arch my neck enough to look down range. I had to move my eyes much further up and look past my eye lids and get a partial picture of the target bull. Not sure I explained that good enough to understand. To look up at my apple trees, I have to arch my back to look up enough. At the time I was newly Divorced, promoted to a new Manager position in design for the Navy and my kids were with me and I was concerned about not being able to support them. Thankfully I had just starting dating the love of my life a nurse and she advised me on the two Neuro surgeons in the community. She had dealt with them and their patients in the ICU at the hospital. She said one Was good technically and great bedside manners and the other was GREAT technically and poor bedside manners. I said if someone is going to cut my neck open from the front to operate on my spine, I wanted the best and I could deal with bedside manners. I chose the best Technical Surgeon and and grateful. My new wife advised me. It is now 46 years married to her and gained two great kids in the deal. My Doc didn't want me to do any shooting because of recoil impact on my neck. I said, Doc, my target rifle a .22 weighs 15 1/2 lbs without my sights (iron or scope) so the recoil from the .22 cal is almost non existent so he said OK. So then I took liberties with my hunting rifle and went from my 30.06 180 grain Springfield to a Browning .243 (min by state law) in a BAR with some mods and to Remington 1100 in 20 gauge and .410 from 12 gauge. Never had a problem knocking anything down, just smaller projectile or fewer pellets, but I adjusted. I AM GRATEFUL!