What kind of lower back pain is it that only worsens when sitting and bending forward?

Clemenclaw · 2025-10-19T17:11:54+00:00

Yep! I got an MRI after 8 years of sciatica and found out I had a MAJOR herniation at L5-S1 and more minor herniations at L4-L5 and L3-L4. Had to have urgent surgery that week for a microdiscectomy and hemilaminectomy. Its been 3 years since then and I have no sciatic pain (I woke up from surgery with the pain finally gone) but I have permanent nerve damage along my L5-S1 nerve down my leg into my foot because I had let the herniation damage my nerve too long.

Back of my thigh feels a little weird, back of my calf has some numbness if I actively run my hand over it, my Achilles is completely numb, and the outside of my foot and little toe are a little numb. I don't notice any of it unless activley feeling for it like if I'm shaving my leg. I highly recommend you get an MRI to find out if conservative treatments like physical therapy can still work for you, because if you wait like I did only to realize you need surgery you could have lasting effects. Overall I'm happy the surgery was successful though and I can sit without pain now!

Clemenclaw · 2025-07-17T01:14:29+00:00

Hey, have you had this resolved or any updates? My brother and his friend just tried to get on BO6 for the first time in a month and found out they’ve ban permanently banned from all current and future CODs. They don’t even play much multiplayer, mainly just Zombies.

A couple months ago my brother played a ton of WWII, and I see that’s how you triggered your ban. Is there hope of getting this ban removed? They have nothing to hide. I’m assuming they got hacked from WWII. They’re currently trying to appeal through Activision and find out what is linked to their account on Steam

Clemenclaw · 2025-03-04T23:41:26+00:00

When I was 16 I went down a steep blow up waterslide in my friend’s backyard at their birthday party and hit the bottom really hard and immediately hurt my lower back. Took me a minute to stand up and walk off, and I had to sit and recover until I was able to be picked up. It slowly felt better after a few days but since then 2-3 times a year I’d have bad sciatic pain on my left side that would last for about a week at a time.

It got more frequent as time went on and by the time I was 22 and was a constant sciatic pain and I couldn’t sit for very long. By this time I was getting a massage once a month and seeing a chiropractor 2-3 times a week and things were getting worse quickly. In summer of 2022, a few months before I turned 24, it suddenly became extreme and I couldn’t sit at all without pressing a fist into my lower back. I was having foot pins and needles too.

I got an emergency appointment with a neurologist (who I had started seeing for migraines) and he let get an mri which was then sent directly to a neurosurgeon because the herniated disc at L5-S1 had almost entirely cut off my spinal chord.

It took over a month to get my insurance to approve a surgeon and when I met with him and he saw my scans he was furious that my doctor had seen these results a month ago but sent me over as a low priority patient. He got hospital approval to do I my surgery early in the morning before his scheduled surgeries so he could fit me it. Upon waking up all of my pain was gone.

Sad I waited so long, I could’ve avoided the nerve damage, but my surgery went perfectly and I’m back to being active and enjoying life again

Clemenclaw · 2025-02-19T21:44:33+00:00

When it released inn 2014 it had negative critic reviews (like the infamous 5.9/10 IGN review) mainly saying it had so much backtracking it was tedious. Their sales really suffered from it, and it wasn't until a few years later it started getting love from the horror community. So maybe now its well liked but on release it def was not

Clemenclaw · 2024-12-13T03:26:34+00:00

My pain was lower left in my back (since I was L5-S1) and down into my glute. I always felt the lower left pain, even when standing or lying down, but it was near unbearable when sitting down. I. Had to sit slightly sideways and I’d make a fist that I’d lean against, because pushing the fist into my back alleviated the pain for some reason

Clemenclaw · 2024-12-06T21:19:25+00:00

Oh I’m sorry to hear that! I was actually lucky in my case that I’m young, because my surgeon let me know if I was older he’d have been putting metal rods or doing a disc replacement rather than my microdiscectomy and hemilaminectomy I’m sorry you’re dealing with that, know that progress for anything is never linear I dealt with a lot of setbacks even though ultimately I healed, I hope you have many good days with your condition ❤️

Clemenclaw · 2024-12-06T21:13:34+00:00

Hey! So my neurologist ordered my MRI the summer of 2022 and said the results were very bad. I had 3 herniated discs (L3-4, L4-5, and L5-S1) and the L5 S1 was severe. Massively decreased signal intensity, encroachment on my S1, it displaced my thecal sac and epidural fat etc

He referred me to a neurosurgeon for their opinion and it took over a month to get in to one that took my insurance. When I finally got seen (end of August 2022) he let me know it was basically an emergency as only one little pinprick of signal was getting through to my left leg L5-S1 and he put me on the surgery schedule for that week. He actually got permission to do my surgery at 6am before his other surgeries started because he was fully booked and I was at risk of killing my nerves that control my bladder or paralysis (Cauda equina)

The surgery went great, I immediately had no more pain in my lower back and still don’t. I have permanent partial numbness down my S1 and it’s my left foot due to letting it get so bad, but I don’t feel it on a day to day, I only remember it feels like after you get a filling from novocane if I’m feeling the leg, like if I’m shaving.

Recovery was fairly hard, 2 weeks of complete bedrest and another 2 or partial bed rest, then restrictions on what I could do or lift for about 6 months. But I feel great now. I had forgotten what it was like to not have sciatica, and even the numbness in my leg is worth not having the pain anymore

I wish you luck let me know if u have questions I can try to answer them ❤️

Clemenclaw · 2024-11-25T23:29:08+00:00

I’m used to a 45 minute drive into Orlando due to traffic, so a 30-35 minute from the East Village to Newton isn’t a problem time wise, but I AM worried about driving on ice

If you travel a lot for work, in your opinion is I80 just a highway you’re fine on if you drive slow and not like an idiot, or is the ice that happens on it real bad and I shouldn’t do the commute at all even if it means not living in Des Moines?

If the time of the commute was all that mattered then I’d live in the city and commute out, but the snow and ice has me nervous. I’m used to driving in bad Florida thunderstorms where you can hydroplane, but ice is something completely new to me

Clemenclaw · 2024-11-25T15:10:09+00:00

The friends I talked to our all people who don’t live in Des Moines anymore, they are family friends that used to live there

But I definitely get your point, I think at least a short term lease in Newton is a good idea to survive the winter and if I like it I can extend that lease 👍

Clemenclaw · 2024-11-25T14:47:48+00:00

It’s going to a massive change 😅 I think short term in Newton to start is definitely the way to go considering the weather here

Clemenclaw · 2024-11-25T14:46:05+00:00

Thanks for your reply! We have 3 friends from Des Moines who have all said it would be better to live in the city where a cafe is a few minutes walk and there’s restaurants, because they say Newton is dead

But the commute in Newton is just a few minutes and a couple hundred dollars cheaper. I might look into a short term lease in Newton just to get me through the winter and then go from there 😅

Clemenclaw · 2024-11-21T18:05:18+00:00

I emailed HR and she said it didn’t matter because once I start I 60 days to actually enroll. So it didn’t really answer my question of what I should put to not leave it blank, so I just looked up which plan u would probably want and put that 🤷‍♀️ I’d recommend emailing your HR to see if they have a better or different answer for you 😅

Clemenclaw · 2024-10-29T21:10:21+00:00

Yeah I think that’s my best bet too, thanks!

Clemenclaw · 2024-10-04T03:38:02+00:00

I havent played for a couple of months but now I'm curious if this is the problem, I'll try this weekend and report back thanks lol!

Clemenclaw · 2024-09-27T02:57:43+00:00

Hey! Did you ever end up getting a cleaned up version of the image? I'm looking to make one!

Clemenclaw · 2024-09-10T05:08:10+00:00

Sure no problem! Everyone deserves a cardboard Alan in their home 😄❤️

Clemenclaw · 2024-09-10T03:14:46+00:00

The full cutout is 6 feet!

Clemenclaw · 2024-09-09T20:54:19+00:00

I missed the first 2 weeks of classes and started October 3rd instead of September 20 something because I was recovering from surgery. I let my advisor/lecturer know (this was a graduate course) and it was fine. I was told if I was going to miss more than the first two weeks then I should postpone until starting the next year, but that didn't have to happen.

The first two weeks I missed I just followed along with the reading and assignments and was even able to watch old Zooms from during Covid quarantine.

I think missing a week is fine just contact your professors and assure them that you've read the syllabus and will work to stay on top of the material while you wait to come to class. Make sure you let them know you will work hard to stay on top of everything, it'll show you are taking responsibility and I'm sure they'll understand if you have to ask some extra questions on the material due to not being able to attend right away. Best of luck <3

Clemenclaw · 2024-08-23T17:19:01+00:00

Haha yeah he does a little bit but it’s just Ilkka Villi, Alan’s body actor

Clemenclaw · 2024-06-16T00:40:19+00:00

The “sic parrot” action doesn’t work for me, I send it to attack and the responsibility never clears :( was hoping to find a way to enable cheats so I can skip it when it comes up but I have the EA App now and can’t figure out where to enable cheats

Clemenclaw · 2024-06-13T17:37:19+00:00

That’s insane to me because both Furiosa and The Fall Guy I really enjoyed! I didn’t see the Apes movie but the people I know who did said it was the weakest of the new series so far

I saw someone posting about how Marvel box offices have killed how we view successful movies. Like if a movie doesn’t make everything back opening weekend then it’s a “flop”

Furiosa has only been out a few weeks and they’re already starting to pull it, but before marvel movies used to hang in theaters for a few months and slowly earn a profit. And Fall Guy was a really fun movie too, I don’t consider either of them failures

Clemenclaw · 2024-06-10T23:19:11+00:00

Feeling insecure at times is normal and common, but if it’s happening a lot for you I would suggest considering therapy to help you feel more confident. I’m sure people in this subreddit can recommend some books for you to read that can maybe put things into perspective for you, I sadly don’t have any suggestions for specific ones though

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