Posting here for traffic.
I have really hurt myself. I think I did it trying to pull start a mower.
It's like my spine at the back of my chest has become unstable. It is hellish painful and clicking all the time.
I am taking maximum Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.
On two occasions it has stopped me bending forward to clean my teeth. The feeling being the vertebrae are misaligned.
By hanging myself by my arms from the roof of the shed I can reduce it to a degree.
It is making me feel very anxious all the time.
I woke up one morning in utter agony and DH took me to the GP. My regular GP was away and I saw a locum. He sent me for an Xray that afternoon but it came back as aligned and with mild arthritic change only.
I carried on for another two weeks and went to see my regular GP. She said it will heal eventually but will take ages. I have had a situation in the past though when I saw her and she wished to treat a condition conservatively when actually I needed surgery and I have had long term effects of the delay so I don't 100% trust her if I can put it that way?
I found wearing a tight bra helps so have bought a really tight sports bra today and am wearing it 24 hours as it takes a fair bit of the pain away, presumably because it is stabilising the injury?
Despite nothing showing on the Xray there is something that is definitely unstable at the back of my spine as my movement is sometimes impaired and the pain and clicking is really something.
I feel like this is almost no better than when I did this 6 or so weeks ago.
Has anyone else had an injury like this please and if so what was the outcome please?
I am worried that I need stabilisation surgery on my spine and I have been fobbed off by my GP again but I am so anxious about this injury it might be the anxiety talking and it will heal but take it's sweet time. I'm scared and could use some reasurrence : /