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midget6423
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Hey guys, new to the board here!
I just need... to know if other's are going through/have been through this because no one I talk to understand how much back problems ruin your life.
I am 20 years old, up until nearly 3 years ago I was an assisting Tae Kwondo instructor, I played in banRAB (I am a drummer, bassist etc) and was basically a healthy teenage girl.
I then started having all the back pains etc, and eventually found out I had Spondilolysthesis. I had my spinal fusion done at 19 (L5-S1), on the 18th March 2007, and was promised I would be able to return to Tae Kwondo and so on.
So here we are, little over a year later, and I find out one of the titanium screws has broken, I found this out on Friday (14th March 2008) and am now waiting for the surgeon to tell me what is happening.
I know there are far worse situations I can be in, and I know that chances are this can easily be sorted out. But the thing is, I'm a University student, I've missed at least 60% of my time in lectures because my back hurts too much to go in, my social life is going downhill because I always turn down nights out because my back won't last for the whole night, and when I do go out it is literally for 2-3 hours if that. I'm losing money because my part time job is in a real ale pub (or bar if you like), my room is constantly a mess because I can't bend down to pick things up and worst of all I get really paranoid about my boyfriend seeing other people because...well you get the picture!
This is really ruining my life, my 2 hobbies are now impossible and there is nothing left. People without ever experiencing this tell me to just forget about it, but as most of you will know it is impossible.
My quality of life is terrible at 20 years old, if you can relate PLEASE get in touch and tell me how you deal with it because after this long I am losing faith that (at least some of) the pain will ever go away. Any advice on the screw breaking as well is gladly appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
I just need... to know if other's are going through/have been through this because no one I talk to understand how much back problems ruin your life.
I am 20 years old, up until nearly 3 years ago I was an assisting Tae Kwondo instructor, I played in banRAB (I am a drummer, bassist etc) and was basically a healthy teenage girl.
I then started having all the back pains etc, and eventually found out I had Spondilolysthesis. I had my spinal fusion done at 19 (L5-S1), on the 18th March 2007, and was promised I would be able to return to Tae Kwondo and so on.
So here we are, little over a year later, and I find out one of the titanium screws has broken, I found this out on Friday (14th March 2008) and am now waiting for the surgeon to tell me what is happening.
I know there are far worse situations I can be in, and I know that chances are this can easily be sorted out. But the thing is, I'm a University student, I've missed at least 60% of my time in lectures because my back hurts too much to go in, my social life is going downhill because I always turn down nights out because my back won't last for the whole night, and when I do go out it is literally for 2-3 hours if that. I'm losing money because my part time job is in a real ale pub (or bar if you like), my room is constantly a mess because I can't bend down to pick things up and worst of all I get really paranoid about my boyfriend seeing other people because...well you get the picture!
This is really ruining my life, my 2 hobbies are now impossible and there is nothing left. People without ever experiencing this tell me to just forget about it, but as most of you will know it is impossible.
My quality of life is terrible at 20 years old, if you can relate PLEASE get in touch and tell me how you deal with it because after this long I am losing faith that (at least some of) the pain will ever go away. Any advice on the screw breaking as well is gladly appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to read this!