I’ve had a sharp, acute pain in my lower back for the past week or so. When I first noticed the pain, it was on the tail end of my 14 day straight work/school week, the one where I didn’t have any days off whatsoever. The one where I was the freakin’ Energizer Bunny because I had sooo much to do. I figured my body was simply mad at me and needed some rest and stuff. So I tried to take naps whenever I could. They didn’t help. I’d wake up more sore than when I went to bed. I didn’t pick up any unnecessarily heavy boxes at work or anything, so I knew that couldn’t have been the reason.
I woke up last Thursday and the pain had shrunk to my lower back. I figured it was cramps because I was due for my crimson wave this month and usually when I get pains back there, it’s because of that. What worries me is that the pain is still there, and no OTC medicines are working. I think I’ll schedule an appointment with my doctor tomorrow. Hopefully they can take me on the same day. I’ll cry if they don’t.
I hope it’s nothing serious. Ideally, I should’ve gotten it checked sooner. I’m not very good at preventative maintenance. I wait until something’s wrong to take care of stuff. I think that’s the American way though, lol. As such, it looks like I’ll be skipping school. I don’t think I could sit through class with this pain.
It feels like it’s fading but if I sit a certain way, or sit too long, or try and turn a certain way, it’ll twinge like I was getting poked with a pin and sort of “earthquake” through my lower back. I’ve had to stop and pause while the pain faded. Please God, don’t let it be serious.
Other than that, we’ve been so busy at work!! 3 shows are here this week, and aww man. That’s all I’m saying lol.
But all the drama at work is okay, because I took my sister and my nieces to go see “The Lion King” for Valentine’s Day. I got a 2 for 1 special. I know the girls enjoyed it, because from the moment they started the show, their eyes were glued to the stage. The only bad part was this dude sitting next to me, hogging up the arm rest. FAIL. lol. I kept leaning towards N the whole night, in an effort to get away from the guy. Ate M treated us to a late dinner at Denny’s afterwards.
They invited me to go bowling and see “Valentine’s Day” today, but I didn’t feel up to it. I felt like being lazy. Well, the pain too helped with that decision. I took a nap but my back was twinging at me while I got comfortable, so I don’t think I slept very well.
I’m going to make an effort to start exercising too. Even if it’s through a video game. I am going to start using “Just Dance” as my exercise method, lol. Hopefully there’s songs to unlock because I’d prolly start memorizing the dance moves after awhile. 
I want to get Wii Fit (not Wii Fit Plus ’cause I have the game, just need the board).
I need to get motivated. I have no motivation whatsoever. I mean, I’m winging it at school right now. I don’t like that. I’m trying to break the habit of sleeping in too, by setting things on my calendar with alarms. I’ve slept through a few of them. Yuk.
I’m too complacent about my life right now. I need a swift kick in the bum to fix that.
Help.
?: “What do you do to get motivated?“
The less that can be said about me, the better.
I’m not liking this pain hun, hope you get it sorted out soon hun. I know from experience how difficult back pain can make life.
I need a swift kick too! So if you find out how to get motivated tell me!
Thanks. It’s kinda strange, I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep and I felt the pain trickling out of my body. It was the strangest thing. I woke up and I could move even better than I did the day before. Weird how bodies work.
Speaking of motivation, I’m going to make a vision board. I have to go through a few other old mags that we have lying around. Have you heard of them? I think I need a double punch of visual and verbal motivation.
Could it be a muscle strain? I had something very similar to what you described recently. I didn’t have much exercise, but I did exert my body pretty suddenly from its zero state, and what I thought felt like kidney pain the next day was a muscle strain. Either way, I hope that you resolve this pain problem soon.. whether it be through our body’s miraculuous mechanisms or the doctor. I tend to root for the body, though. It’s cheaper, and it never ceases to amaze me how much it’s capable of natural healing.
Maybe. I didn’t do anything abnormal as far as exertion before the pains came. I decided against going to the doctor, so I’m pretty much back to 100%. Maybe 89% lol. I think I might try a chiropractor though. My sister swears by adjustments. Still feeling stiff.