I’m Out Of Warranty

I’m in pain. I am falling apart. I’m out of warranty.

Knowing me this isn’t a sports injury!

Some time over the last few weeks I developed pain in my upper right leg from my butt down toward my knee joint. I can’t make it hurt by probing my leg. It’s deep.

It’s also connected to everything else in my body! Sitting hurts. Standing hurts. Pressing the gas pedal hurts. Even coughing hurts.

By now I would have expected it to be a little better, but it doesn’t want to heal on its own. That’s why I’ve got an appointment with Dr. Steve tomorrow morning.

He said he’d cure me, but added, “It’s more like a weather forecast than a promise.”

Beaten at my own game by my own doctor! Wow!

19 thoughts on “I’m Out Of Warranty”

  1. HI GEOFF, I HAVE THAT SAME FROM MY HIPS DOWN EVERY SINGLE MORNING BEFORE I GET OUT OF BED.PRETTY MUCH OF THE TIME I CANT GET OUT OF BED OR EVEN STEP ON MY FEET. I ALSO CANT WALK EITHER. I DO SIT IN MY COMPUTER CHAIR FOR A CERTAIN LENGTH OF TIME THOUGH AT NIGHT AT THE COMPUTER. I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW ITS NOT A SCIATICA PROBLEM GEOFF.ITS DUE TO A DISC PROBLEM

  2. GEOFF I HAVE THIS PROBLEM EVERY MORNING. I HAVE HAD MY BACK EXRAYED SEVERAL TIMES THE DR,S SEND ME HOME WITH MEDS AND TELL ME TO GO HOME AND RELAX. I ALSO HAVE A SMALL CURVE AT THE END OF MY SPINE THAT PUTS ALOT OF PAIN IN MY BACK AND DOWN MY LEGS. I KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN YOUR IN GEOFF.THE BEST OF LUCK WITH YOUR DR. HOPE YOUR FEELING BETTER GEOFF. HOPE TO SEE YOU BACK AT THE CT FOX NEWS SOON. JUST TAKE IT EASY GEOFF HOPEFULLY THAT PROBLEM WILL RESOLVE IT SELF. HOPE TO GOD YOU WONT NEED ANY SURGERY LIKE I DO SOON. LOVE YOU GEOFF. PATTY SHAFER PAWCATUCK CT.

  3. I sure hope Dr. Steve can fix it for you, or at least help you to feel better. It is lousy getting old, isn’t it?!

  4. I have a simple answer to a very similar problem. Take the wallet out of your back pocket. It pinches the nerves and can lead to pain and numbness.. It fixed my problem… Well, that one anyway…. 🙂

  5. I was diagnosed with a catscan 25 years ago with a herniated disc. How do you spell disc, disc or disk? confused. Well, I have had no treatment or pain management for 25 years and asked my new doc to order a new catscan, last one being at Hartford Hospital and this doc with Yale. I just wanted to know what was going on and said from the start, no surgery. Had my first MRI without contrast. She got the results and agreed, no surgery. Two degenerative discs and some nerve involvement and stenosis. (all lower back.) Bring on the opiates. Well, I haven’t filled the pain meds yet and live on 4 Advils at a time (same as prescription Motrin), and I have this wonderful mattress pad from Penney’s, it’s an entire Queen sized heating pad!!! I love it!!! I just crank the AC. Check the archives of New York Magazine for this story they did on back pain and how the pain compares with those who had surgery and those who didn’t. That convinced me never to have surgery. I am waiting for somebody to invent the back transplant!!! Good luck with the doc, Geoff. I never knew MRI’s made so much noise!!! Almost flipped out. I am diabetic and I am supposed to walk for 30 minutes a day. Working up to that.

  6. Geoff,

    At 32 I had an MRI that showed a pinched nerve was causing the same exact symptoms you are now having that I was having, so Dr. Kapur gave me an epidural with I believe a nerve blocker but it could be tons of other things as well but atleast you’ll get to choose the radio station you want to listen to when you are getting your mri done lol. Hang in there I am sure you are in good hands. Keeping you in my thoughts Jen.

  7. Sounds like Sciatica….same symptoms I have. A few visits with a good chiropractor should fix you right up. Standing and/or sitting can aggravate it.
    Also,the suggestion from Jim Murphy is a good one.

  8. Sciatica’s my guess.
    Stretches help immensely, sit down and pull each knee to your chest.
    I thought I had a deep vein thrombosis and was happy for the diagnosis from the Dr.
    – Craig

  9. Get an extended warrenty. Getting older isn’t the problem. The problem is that we think younger than we actually are. Good move on seeing the Dr. Welcome to the age of pain management.

  10. Sure sounds like sciatica to me too-have had it over the past few years-physical helped me a couple years back-and has been pretty good ever since. I do feel it sometimes 1st thing in the morning when I wake up-but stretching helps. Hope your dr can help you quickly-and easily.

  11. My diagnosis: A real pain in the butt! Mine starts in lower left back, right above my left “cheek”. Down to the back of my left knee. Simple stretches, no sitting,(sitting seems to aggravate it more)walk with short steps slowly, and a nice HOT shower directed at the lower back helps me.

  12. What really stinks is that, when we get on in years, we don’t even have to do anything to provoke the pain. It just comes to us like someone’s lunatic idea of a funny joke. I always thought that if I at least knew what i did to cause the flare up, I could prevent it from happening again. Wrong. It’s just our bodies way of telling us we’re not a spring chicken anymore.

  13. Well Geoff. Got some good news for you. I”m a bodybuilder an am 57 years old. Been doing it for years. I have much arthritis in each shoulder. Had a few shots of cortizone in each shoulder. A bodybuilding friend turned me onto a Ibprofen creme w/lidocaine. It has Ibprofen and lidocaine in it and you rub it into the injury and trust me. It works. The best thing thing is no prescription needed. You can buy it online at a site called Tao of Herbs. I used it and never needed another cortizone shot and am back to lifting.

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