I'm feeling better already. No permanent damage was done. I'm just not used to carrying that much weight around. I can empathize with the arthritic pain, @Bruce Andrew. Although my arthritis isn't nearly as bad as a lot of people I know, it's coming.
Last week, I got out of the shower, dried off, stood on my right foot, slightly bent over to pull on a pair of shorts. As I raised my left foot, a flash of pain and heat crossed my back and I couldn't straighten up. I was absolutely in pain for three days. Imagine explaining that one to the doctor, "well, I was pulling up my pants....." Getting old is not for the faint of heart!
I had often wondered what people meant when they said they "threw out their back." One day I was changing the sheets and must have been at a funny angle when I lifted the mattress...as I lay on the floor, I understood.
I remember my grandmother always calling it "down in the back", as in "Agnes wasn't at church today 'cause she was down in the back." Another term for general pain was "the miseries". "I couldn't get my garden in this year 'cause I got the miseries something terrible." And there was always "the rheumatiz".
Find lately last couple years to go slow and short intervals. After thinking I was dying several times from double digging garden or just working too fast too hard to stop long before I think I need to stop.I couldn't breath or move for and thats scary! Hubbyhad a few of those episodes too and learned to stop ehile its still posible.
I hauled pretty much the same amount of compost today as I did on the 12th, which prompted this thread and, while I hurt, I don't hurt as much as I did a week ago.
My collarbones have been hurting for a couple of weeks now, no idea why. After reading all the possible side-effects from meloxicam I'm gonna try going off it. Did not take any yesterday. My collarbones hurt like hell this morning, hands about the same as they've been. Took tylenol and ibu when I got up. I feel better but I typically do anyway as the day wears on. So who knows?
Know what you mean we decided to put in a small fish pond In southern il all rocks you have to buy we found a place with slab rock 2 inches thick 10 to 12 inch squares. They sell by the pound. I had to pick them and load on palet was 385 pounds never thought much about it until I realized I had picked them up--1 time on palit ,1 time out of truck to wheelbarrow, 1 time out of wheelbarrow, and 1 time to place them all in same day thats 3/4 of a ton back was hurting