Needs to get worse before it gets better
Posted: June 4th, 2019, 3:03 pm
When I was in my teens (a very long time ago…) I damaged my lower back doing judo: the result was a prolapsed disk and general blancmange around L4 and L5.
This comes back to haunt me every so often after physically awkward work such as hedge trimming with a heavy petrol-driven trimmer (I have a big hedge). The result is usually a nasty ache with some cramping in the two big vertical muscles either side of the lumbar area and some sciatica.
Sometimes it eases off after a couple of days.
However, on other occasions the ache and pain remain for many days – sometimes a week – getting no worse or better until I do something (accidentally) that makes it much worse. After two or three days of ‘much worse’, it rapidly gets better.
It is almost as if it needs to get worse before it gets better! Has anyone else encountered this and is there any logical explanation?
This comes back to haunt me every so often after physically awkward work such as hedge trimming with a heavy petrol-driven trimmer (I have a big hedge). The result is usually a nasty ache with some cramping in the two big vertical muscles either side of the lumbar area and some sciatica.
Sometimes it eases off after a couple of days.
However, on other occasions the ache and pain remain for many days – sometimes a week – getting no worse or better until I do something (accidentally) that makes it much worse. After two or three days of ‘much worse’, it rapidly gets better.
It is almost as if it needs to get worse before it gets better! Has anyone else encountered this and is there any logical explanation?