last saturday, I went to the medical centre to check on my back pain,
all these while, I thought it's slipped disc, and I thought, the slipped disc caused the sciatica,
I told my story to the dr., he asked me to tell story first anyway,
it started around end of march, the end of the school holidays, when I was changing the bedsheets,
then, I thought my back is tired,
after a few days, this sciatica started to kick in, and it got more and more painful,
when, we went to his hometown, those few nights, it's still brearable, but I think it got worse eventually, thus, I resolved in using panadol EXTEND, ie, painkiller,
I started sharing my pain story with LK, bla bla bla bla...
well, before I saw the dr, I was having breakfast with him at the cafeteria,
suddenly (ya, just the night before, I thought of this...) I thought, though still blaming on the slipped disc, as I had the history,
it's many years ago, when baby #1 was having her tooth extracted at the dentist, and I'd to bend slightly to hold her hand, she's still small, oh~ my baby!!! and I've to adjust my body gesture according to the dental equipment, where the dentist sat etc.,
thus, I hurt my back, I went to dr. after that, and the dr. managed to pressed on the slipped disc... he asked me to go for surgery, and I refused, and therefore... ... ...
so, I thought, this is the problem of an old injury,
though it might not have started in end march, suddenly I thought so...
and it might have to be traced back much much earlier, maybe some time last year, maybe some time mid of last year...
when I started complaining about the chair that I sat on, at my workdesk!
I kept changing chair during that time, till I went to ikea to get a proper working chair,
during that period of time, I was pretty sensitive to CHAIRS,
I even changed the chair in his room in his hometown, we bought a new chair, and put i tthere...
now, I think of it, I thought, maybe it's started much earlier...
so, I told the dr. my story...
immediately, the dr. said, it's the "bone spur", 骨刺
I said "what?? please don't scare me!", he responded, "I'm not scaring you, I've not even mentioned about cancer!",
anyway, he told me, based on the symptoms I have mentioned, it sounded like the bone spur,
if it's slipped disc, it's immediate, not "after a few days",
and the sciatica, yes, it came along with the bone spur,
and mentioned, if I've to know the details, I'll have to go throught x-ray and MRI,
I told him, I'll just trust his judgetment,
ie. not knowing, but presuming it's bone spur, and he'll give me prescription to make me feel better, less pain, and I'd to go to physiotherapy...
if!!! after 2 weeks, the problem still hasn't gone away, then, I told him, I'll go for the MRI,
it's always trial and error, right???
anyway, after taking the med that he's prescribed to me,
I did feel slight improvement, sleep better, I won't think it's 100% solved, since it's bone spur,
when the pain was during its peak,
that's what I told him, "it's testing my patience"...
I hope it's just bone spur,
and I'll be going for the physio this week, ie. better do it while I'm taking the medication!!!!
