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You need a 3 year rotation KE, and can't you get them under cover, ideal with slated sides.

Although I don't suffer back pain, I do suffer with a touch of arthritis in my left hip. Only plays up about 3 times a year now, but when it does....... Can't sit still, can't stand still, hurts to sit , hurts to stand. It has brought tears to my eyes in the past. I've been to the doctors about it and a few years ago she sent me for a scan. When the results came back she said, they wouldn't even consider doing anything about it, unless I was in absolute continuous pain for months. Prescribed codeine phosphate and told me to grin and bear it.
Nowadays I can feel when it's about to come on. The pain just builds up, and up for about a week, then subsides almost within a day.

Im stuck with a dodgy cervical vertebra, been niggling for over a year now. £35 a pop at the osteopath and its great for about 4 days then, inevitably, work intervenes and it traps the nerve again. learning to live with it, the osteopath is good but until I get to the stage where I can give up work its not worth getting treatment. I blame it on my glasses, varifocals are fine until you are looking at ceilings and you have to hyperextend your neck to get the near vision to focus. Tried single vision which is fine for about 1 metre radius but otherwise useless for what I'm doing. For some reason no-one will make varifocals with upside down lenses, there must be a market for them, I can't be the only one with this problem.

thescruff wrote:You need a 3 year rotation KE, and can't you get them under cover, ideal with slated sides.

The logs are already 2 years old - well seasoned - so they're only where they are until I get around to splitting and stacking. A bit of rain doesn't do any harm. Future plans include a decent sized log store as the one we currently have is only 3.5 cubes (about 2/3 season)

Back OT......

what do others think about doctors recommendations to 'exercise' a bad back? When I did my disk(s) the docs insisted I moved around as much as possible. I told them to f-off and stayed where my gut feeling told me to stay i.e. horizontal. Probably impossible (now) to determine whether moving or staying put had any discernable difference in results but what about the rest of you? Do you move or do you stay (sounds like there's a song in there somewhere ).

Treatment depends on the injury, I certainly wouldn't trust a doctor with it.

Get along to a specialist and take their advice, with certain types they can weld the disc together to stop it trapping the nerve.

There is a Ti girl at the RUHRD and we had Hydro-therapy at the Bath spa and all sorts of water exercises, 5 x 20 min sessions and I was a new man, still get pain occasionally but I have exercises for that.

Exercise is the only thing that got me back to work. I still have a back issue lifting anything heavy, when it went the first time i thought i would have to do a desk job or pack in totally thats how bad it was.
I went to every quack and manipulator, after all of them they would give me exercises and stretches to do. they got me back working not the quacks, they just relieved me of £100s.
youtube back pain exercise.

Well i didnt bother with doctors or specialist main reasons being time and money,read up on and used back exercise on the net and i am sort of back to normal now

Glad to hear you've had some form of relief Canny..... These days you seem to get better advice on-line than from the doctors

In that case, I better head On-Line for advice.
Had serious stomach pains last Tuesday. When I rang to book an appointment, I was told GP will call me back. By 6pm, I had not heard from him. So I got down there at 6:15pm and asked receptionist if I was going to get that call? 'You must have been called' she said. 'Look to see if you have any missed calls?'
I had none.
Now I am here I'm just going to have to wait and see the doctor. I says.
No, was the reply. You have to go home and wait for the call.
The surgery normally closes at 6:30pm. By 6pm, all patients are normally already been seen.
So I sat at the reception area. At 6:20 I got call from a blocked number? It was the GP. I told him I'm at reception and can just knock hiss door and see him.
He refused and insisted on talking to me over the phone, then wrote out a prescription for Ibroprofen and gave receptionist to give me.
That night I ended up at A&E for 5 hrs.

That was FIVE days ago. Now the pains are back from 9am today?????