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Curing and splitting wood for burning
On Jan 31, 1:25*pm, Charlie Pridham
wrote: In article et, says... On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:33:15 +0000, David in Normandy wrote (in article ): Huge says... snip Ankylosing spondylitis? I don't recall ever being given a specific name such as that, but the doctors spoke of the formation of bone spurs impinging my nerves and the degeneration of disks in my neck. To quote my medical report: At C4/5 level there is uncal osteophyte formation with some narrowing of the left exit foramen and probably impingement of the exiting nerve root. At C5/6 level there is left postero-lateral osteophyte formation, this would appear to be associated with a chronic protrusion. There is canal stenosis with cord compression and compression of the exiting left nerve root. (In none-medical jargon - It seriously bloody hurt!) Hi David, have only just caught up on some of my newsgroup reading and saw this. *This sounds exactly like what I have, which is called Spinal Stenosis (NOT Ankylosing spondylitis, which my father had, and which is quite different). *If you Google Spinal Stenosis you will find chapter and verse. I would urge you not to have surgery. *My consultant once told me proudly (when I was resisting such) that he had done the same operation on one patient three times! *He couldn't understand why I thought this was a failure, not a success. *A friend of mine insisted that surgery was the only cure and that he had been told he would have a new quality of life within six months. *He has. *It's worse. This is seriously OT for this group except that gardeners have to watch their backs! *If you want to take it to email, mine will work and I'll send you a real email address. I know its OT but I couldn't agree more, my sister had the op and was in such pain after that she had it done again after which she was worse and pleading with them to remove her leg (hers being the same problem in her lower back, but apparently removing the leg would not have removed the pain) now recovering from her third operation and life seems to be getting better and she is nearly back to the pain levals she lived with before the first op! In her case the original bad back was not caused by gardening but it has certainly restricted her ability to garden. (feeble attempt to get back on topic!) -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwallwww.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I've missed a lot of this but if you have a back condition where you can actually move then it's pilates pilates pilates. "Cured" me (symptom free) of a bad back and dodgey hip. |
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Curing and splitting wood for burning
adder1969 wrote:
snip I've missed a lot of this but if you have a back condition where you can actually move then it's pilates pilates pilates. "Cured" me (symptom free) of a bad back and dodgey hip. I am very glad that it helped you. But that is *not* universal advice to be followed. Partner gets worse if she does anything like pilates (and she has tried). -- Rod |
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