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Calling the NS Doctor: Upper back pain...
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One fateful September eve in 2008 I was real drunk and jumped in my basement and smashed my head into the ceiling full-force... don't ask why, I'm not really clear on that either. Since then I have been plagued with an annoying pain in my upper back (more specifically, my spine, lol). I have had this discomfort in my spine since the injury, and it varies depending on my level of activity (if I'm workin out it hurts quite a bit afterwards, and since I've been skiing these past few weeks it hurts pretty bad).
I went to the doc and he sent me off for an x-ray and told me to come back in 3 months to see if it got any worse (I don't like my new doctor, I tried explaining to him that I've had the problem for longer than 3 months and it hasn't gotten any better). In the x-ray they found a small bulge but he said it should be fine (idiot). I just want to be able to ski, work out, etc.... without the fear that I may have something terribly wrong with my back, has anyone experienced anything like this?
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jumped and hit my head on a ceiling in september, started getting pain in my upper back / spine, hasn't gotten any better, gets worse when i'm active, doc says it isn't serious.
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wow man, sounds like spinal compression. has your neck/upper back muscles become tighter after this ?
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yeah, and any time i work out my upper back or shoulders (and even chest) I find the pain gets much worse.
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yea go see a real doctor man.
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get a second opinion, bring the X ray so you don't have to take one again. See what the other doctor says since you are clearly not satisfied with the first guy
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the sketchy thing was that he didn't even show me the x-ray, all he did was read an analysis of the x-ray written by some other doctor.
today i was hitting a smooth 25 footer at holiday valley and I cleared the landing/over-rotated and slammed pretty hard on the flat and i can DEFINITELY feel it in my back/neck lol.
a second opinion is definitely a good idea, I'm going to go to the sports therapist whom I'm pretty tight with and hopefully she'll give me a better idea of what is going on, and hopefully refer me to a specialist.
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