BS: One thing after another

Subject: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 08:36 PM

Been having some heavy duty neck pain these last couple of weeks, went to have it checked out. Had x rays taken and the they showed a "Compression fracture of C 3 vertebra.
Now I have to get a bone density test to make sure my bones are ok. Seems like if therewas a problem with any of my bones, I'd know it.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 08:46 PM

That's nasty!

Don't listen to us idiots' advice here on mudcat, other than to consult real competent help!

Don't push your neck, take some rest too.

"Seems like if therewas a problem with any of my bones, I'd know it." Unfortunately commensense ideas like this don't make medical sense, sorry!

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Mickey191
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 08:52 PM

Kendall, One of those heat patches may give you a bit of relief until your Doc decides on a course of action. I was surprised at the relief it gave my achin' back. Good Luck.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 08:54 PM

Gettin' older is a bitch (excuse my language), ain't it, Kendall. I read not long ago that some 60% of Americans have pain everyday. I know I do... I've had lower neck pain, off and on, for the last 20 years... C4 and C5... Been to chiroprators, massuage therapists, accupuncturists and even a danged psychiatrist...

Now I got a sharp pain in my left elbow and can't play guitar but fir about 5 minutes before I get this strekin' pain up my arm from it... Going to go see the orthopedist on Wednesday...

Like I said, gettin' oldert is a pain... but it beats the alternative...

Hang in there. The docs 'ill get this fixed up just in time fir somethin' else to crap out....

Jus'funnin'... kinda... geeze...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 08:58 PM

I hear youse -- I am a spring chicken and always have been, having elected to adhere firmly to a policy of arrested development around 22. So it is really a surprise, an assault on my sense of reality, and an affront to find my knees wobbling with pain after only rwo hours of siting, and lower back throbbing every time I lift my own weight, which by the way is getting to be harder all the time thanks to the bloat after not smoking. I hate this shit and I want my rubbery, immortal 18-year-old body back!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 08:59 PM

My husband has compression in several vertebrae in his back - don't know which ones. He has been faithfully (and that's the key) following the exercise regimen that a physiotherapist put him on, and has been pain-free for three years.

I hope you find something that will work that well for you. Good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 09:09 PM

Been on any heavy-duty steroids for any other conditions recently?

They can cause bone density issues, I believe...

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 09:25 PM

"Seems like if there was a problem with any of my bones, I'd know it." You mean like neck pain? I'm sorry, Kendall. (Not about the smart-ass comment - about your pain.) My Mom had a couple of fractured vertebrae. She took a dive out of the bathtub and onto the toilet, which gave her some minor bruises. A week later, she picked something up off the floor and fractured the buggers. She did some sort of excercise program in a pool, and it helped her a lot. I don't know what they'll have you doing for a neck though. In any case, I hope everything turns out ok and you heal fast.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Tinker
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 09:36 PM

Hey Mister, take care of yourself okay???    I have to confess, that in true Kendall fashion you set up your post like a straight line just waiting for the next comment. I'm going to refrain though. I'll just send along Blessings and Light.

Kathy

Oh, if you need a smile try to picture me with six kids and six grownups having Thanksgiving Dinner on a Disney Cruise boat...Last time my sister in law plans things... Maybe I'll join you and Sinsull next year...

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 10:14 PM

Oh, here's Mickey and Minnie to tell us all the things they're thankful for!! Like Pluto, and Donald, and Roy, and Michael Eisner, and their amazing wonnerful SALaries!! Oh, boy, kids!! Isn't this greaaaat!!???

Kathy -- is this the kind of TG you had??? LOL


A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 10:35 PM

Mickey and Minnie are grateful for Donald and Pluto, et al.?

Amos, WHAT did M & M eat for TG dinner? Are you trying to tell us that Roy didn't resign?

Anyway, Kendall, just do what the doctor says. Vertebra ain't things to fool around with.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 11:20 PM

I dunno, Rap -- I was just imagining their squeaky-voiced thankfulness. Maybe they were glad Roy resigned. Who am I to guess how a cartoon feels about reality? ;>))

I am sure it is different than the way real people feel about cartoons. And swi5tching back and forth is not easy. Remember Jimmy Dodd? Died of a drug OD.

A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Benjamin
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 12:07 AM

Hmm, and I thought this would be yet another political thread.

Kendall, hang in there. Eventually, you CAN beat everything and be healthy again. Just take care of yourself and be patient.

Good luck,
Benjamin

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 08:20 AM

Jeri was the only one who "got it".

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 09:28 AM

Kendall

If they're looking at bone density then there's a possibility of osteoporosis and yes, it can develop in men as well as women. The first most people know about it is when they get a fracture. The good news is that there are now treatments which can actually restore the bone density, rather than just stop it progressing and, from some reading I did a short while back they may be more available in the States than over here in england. I hope so.

There's a history of osteoporosis in my family which is why I've kept an eye on developments in the treatment. I always say know your enemy.

Thinking of you and sending good thoughts your way.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 01:33 PM

Thank you for your good thoughts, but I doubt very much if it is a density problem. A couple of months ago, I took a bad fall landing on my hip and shoulder while holding one end of a 30 foot wooden mast. No damage from that.
I have, however, whacked my head a number of times going into the forepeak. That might have done it.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 01:41 PM

sorry about the pain Kendall - but just think - if your theory is correct, how much worse it could have been if you'd whacked your forepeak going into the head!

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 01:46 PM

A good chiropractoer should see you right, if that's what it is about, Kendall.


A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 08:14 PM

It was my chiropractor who found the problem and showed me the X rays. Even I could see the crack.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 08:28 PM

OH, shit. Sorry, Kendall, I misread the thread!! So how do they address a fracture in C3? Are we talking about surgery? Or some sort of collar or splint device?

A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: mg
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 10:04 PM

lots of sunshine and vitamin K...remember how for years they told you iceberg lettuce was absolutely worthless..not quite..it has vitamin K..not as much as some other greens but still a fair amount......mg

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 04:44 PM

I will not allow any saw bones to dig around on my spinal column. They have crippled too many people that I know about.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 04:48 PM

Are you sure you didn't get that fracture frolicking under the porch with your ex-wife? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 07:31 PM

Thinking of you, dear Kendall.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: lady penelope
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 07:36 PM

Take it from someone who buggered their neck doing up her shoes.....GET THAT SPINE LOOKED AFTER!!!!! I love low tech and all that but this is deffinitly one area where all mod. con.s are the best way to go.

Most of the answers to spine problems are usually simple, but take time and effort.

You can do it!! And get your neck better.........

Chin chin!    ( I'll get me coat......)

TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 07:37 PM

I often think of you too dear Alison.

Kim C I forgot about that incident! I'll have to tell my doctor and see what he thinks.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 07:50 PM

That's Allison. Not nice to misspell someone's name. People are always leaving one "L" off my name. It bugs me.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 07:00 AM

For those who want to know, I had an exam with my regular doctor yesterday. He thinks the fracture is an old one, probably aggrievated by the fall I took. However, my daughter, the radiologist, says the X-rays are of poor quality, doctor agrees, so I will be getting more on Tuesday.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Peg
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 10:10 AM

good luck, Kendall. I hope they find the problem. Meanwhile, it occurred me this week when I was experiencing my own neck pain to say that cold weather aggravates these sorts of problems: the muscles tense up, we hold them in poor posture against the cold. So do bundle up that neck and your head when you're in the cold...I tend to have neck pain in the winter until I get used to how to bundle up.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 11:00 AM

Yes, osteoporosis does occur in men. My dad and his older brother both have it and are taking calcium for it. Neither of them knew about it until their doctor (same one) scheduled a routine bone density test. No symptoms have been noticed at all. Did you have the test yet, kendall?

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 12:23 PM

So winter is a pain in the neck Peg? I have a much lower opinion of it.
Don't know what will be done until after the x rays I really don't believe there is anything wrong with my bones.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 11:00 PM

What does the llama say?

Osteoparosis - no symptoms until things start breaking. Scan takes ten minutes, is painless, and does not even involve undressing. Do it.
SINS, in Chicago

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 07:32 AM

I will do what my doctor says.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 12:40 PM

osteoporosis. I am tired. You are right, Kendall, Do what the doctor says. I apologize. I have a sticker tacked on the bathroom mirror that says "Just do it!" Sigh. I think I belong to a cult.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 08:25 AM

Final word from new X rays. It is not a compression fracture, just an odd vertebrae. That figures. The pain must have been caused by the fall I took back a while ago.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:19 AM

aN ODD VERTEBRAE? nOT VERTEBRA? dAMN cAPSLOCK!
Is that odd as opposed to an even one?
Good news, Captain
SINS, dancing with joy as she leaves for the airport.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:32 AM

VERY good news. because a crack in a neck vertabrae isn't something to mess around with. in any manner.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:45 AM

Great news... a needed smile.

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:26 PM

Maybe I was a horse thief in a past life?

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:37 PM

Well, I wouldn't doubt it -- you've got the personality to be a hoss thief, and then some, you old buzzard; but chiropractic doesn't treat past-life causes!! For that you need regression therapy or some kind of over-arching epiphany, I reckon. COnfession is a good start, though!! :>))

Love ya,

A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 12:25 AM

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

On the other hand January is a wonderful month to be off your feet, February is even better. You don't miss much besides slush, unless of course you're in Australia, in which case you REALLY have my sympathies.
Oh! If you're looking for a good read, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin books are great! I'm rereading them.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 12:34 AM

It occurred ot me I ought to clarify my sympathies. It's summer in Australia now. Being laid up in the winter is not a bad thing. Being laid up in the summer is hell.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 07:40 AM

Sure, but just being laid is great!.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I'm not a Patrick O'Brian fan. He can never replace C.S.Forrester in my book.

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From:
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 04:04 PM

Hi Kendall

That's really good news - it must be a great weight off your mind. What's the recommended treatment?

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:01 PM

Time is the big healer. And, of course, try to avoid being hung.(sorry, hanged)

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:34 PM

I'd prefer to be well hung then well hanged myself.......

Glad your neck is okay.......Now you need a CT of your brain 'cause I'm sure that's screwed up. What else ya' figger you got going bad?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: Amos
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:39 PM

I'm sure you never tried to avoid being hung, Kendall -- and as for Spaw, I am sure he never had to try. Avoiding it just came natural, like.

A

Subject: RE: BS: One thing after another
From: kendall
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:58 PM

I've got a lot going for me. My eyes, my hearing, teeth...
And, if you believe that, you'll believe there is going to be a Richard Simmons Jr. too.