And the pain continues

As I have said in past posts... I'm the queen of klutz. As you know I have been recovering from my jaw surgery for the last couple of months, plus over the 4th of July I sprained my ankle. So I have been nursing that too. Then last Wednesday night I was walking up the stairs to my place, when I wrenched my back. I was literally just walking, not goofing around or anything. Anyway... I first just thought that I had tweaked it a little bit, so as soon as I got upstairs I took some Tylenol and put the heating pad on it. It seemed to help, so by the time I went to bed, I didn't think I needed to sleep with the heating pad..... BIG MISTAKE. When I woke up on Thursday morning I could barely get out of bed.... it took me 10 minutes to make it to the bath room to pee. Then I carefully climbed into the shower and tried to let the hot water loosen things up, it help a little... or should I say just while I was in the shower. Once I got out... there was shooting pain down my back and into my legs. I lied down again to wait for the doctor's office to open. As I lied there, I just kept thinking that all I would get from a doctor is pain medicine, which would be good, but I would still have to problem. So I called the mother and she said go to "Yimin"... who is an acupuncturist..... he has helped me before and I figured it couldn't hurt. So at 8:45 am I started heading for the car to drive out to the place. It took us ( skinny was home helping me) about 20 minutes to get down the stairs again and into the car. We made it just in time for the appointment. Now normally once they get started with the needles and everything, whatever body party they are working on starts to feel better. But this time I was still in a ton of pain... and since they put needles in your hands ( some how it helps your back), my hands started to hurt. So once I was made into a human pin cushion, they had me walk.... walk???? more like hobble back and forth around the room.... which pretty much made me feel like I was 80 years old. Finally my back started to loosen a little and they had me lay down on the table... to relax. Which actually did make me feel a ton better....but I knew laying down would..... so after about 1/2 an hour I was free to go... but not before they put a stinky patch on my back and left some needles in my head... then told me to come back the next day for another treatment. My back still hurt but at least I could walk a little better. I ended up going home...which they told me to do and resting. Since I took Thursday off work, I had to go in on Friday... and it was a LONG day... every time I had to get up it was an ordeal. I felt horrible by the end of the day.... but knew I would be going to the acupunturist again that night so I willed myself to make it. After that treatment I felt a little better again but as soon as I started to head home... the pain came right back. So Friday night I slept with the heating pad again, I was determed to get rid of the pain. On Saturday afternoon I took a different approach, I had a massage... which made me feel a 100x better.....not back to totally normal but pretty close. I was good most of the day and into the night. On Sunday I was pretty good too. I even made it to my 15 year high school reunion. But come MONDAY.... my back was starting to tighten up again... I think it had a lot to do with my chair... and sitting at my desk.... it was alright for awhile but slowly as the day progressed I was in real pain. Finally when I left it was like walking as an old lady again. So once again I spent the evening on the couch with a heating pad. Last night I slept with it and am feeling pretty good today... now I have brought the heating pad to work and a pillow.. I think I have finally found the answer or ...should I say relief to the pain..... or at least I'm able to sit here, type and then get up without to much trouble. I guess we will see how long it lasts.
I just keep thinking to myself... am I every going to be pain free... I hope so.... since I'm going wedding dress shopping this weekend.