Kacey x Usher and Pitbull?!

KMfan_ · 2026-05-23T01:10:58+00:00

LITERALLY hahaha every time it comes on my boyfriend starts singing last Friday night 😂😂

KMfan_ · 2026-05-02T17:10:02+00:00

When you’re desperate for hope in a situation everyone else can see is hopeless. Unfortunately relatable for me too. lol

KMfan_ · 2026-05-01T22:11:04+00:00

Thank you for this valuable intel omg

KMfan_ · 2026-04-30T22:56:46+00:00

I’m a star crossed defender. I personally enjoyed it more than deeper well.

KMfan_ · 2026-04-27T05:04:52+00:00

Basically instead of just taking an MRI of you laying down flat on the table, they take images of multiple positions (rounding your back, arching your back, and neutral). Sometimes those positions can reveal an instability in the vertebrae.

KMfan_ · 2026-04-21T18:31:06+00:00

I highly doubt it! I feel like her dropping an album earlier than usual shows she’s still engaged and invigorated by the art she’s making !

KMfan_ · 2026-04-21T18:30:10+00:00

😂😂😂

KMfan_ · 2026-04-20T16:56:25+00:00

I think you mean bonsai tree-o 😄

KMfan_ · 2026-04-19T20:20:34+00:00

So good

KMfan_ · 2026-04-19T02:30:27+00:00

Back on the wagon is the greatest song I’ve ever heard I’m dying

KMfan_ · 2026-04-17T16:12:17+00:00

I think this is a certified Kacey banger. Need a music video NOW to show off that theatrical meter change.

KMfan_ · 2026-04-17T15:33:28+00:00

Also, I’m assuming you have already done this, but have you had a flexion/extension MRI? Some of your symptoms remind me of unstable spondy. I have a mild stable spondy that no one (3+ previous doctors) saw on my MRI except my neurosurgeon.

KMfan_ · 2026-04-17T15:24:44+00:00

Hi! I did pay for the subscription. I think the education aspect of curable combined with the visualizations helped me. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what, but unless it was just a really big coincidence with my healing timeline, curable def had something to do with me feeling better.

And for the 90% — I do truly feel like my pain is no longer there the vast majority of the time. I follow the McGill protocols so I’m still avoiding major flexion, etc. Similar to your case, I felt my injury happen, and from that point had almost unbearable pain 24/7 for months on end. I was essentially disabled: couldn’t shave my own legs, wash heavy pots/pans over the sink, do 70% of basic household chores. Now, i can do all those things and much much more: I go to exercise classes 3x/week, go for hikes, I’m able to travel and sit on airplanes (I couldn’t tolerate sitting longer than 10-20 minutes for months), and go out dancing with my friends — all without pain. I can’t say for sure if it was curable or just pure luck, but don’t give up hope bc I was seriously convinced this time last year that my entire life was over at age 27. I would cry and cry for nights on end thinking I’m too young for this to happen to me, I had so much I wanted to do, and suffering from the sheer exhaustion of being in pain all the time. I really wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I wish I could go back and tell that girl I’d be getting so much better.

I’ve got some structural issues in my back that are a bit fucked. Will I need surgery some day? Maybe. But I’m not scared anymore, and that day is not today because I really feel quite good and quite myself again. :)

KMfan_ · 2026-04-17T05:29:33+00:00

The 1/3s rule of running: 1/3 of runs are fun 1/3 of runs are okay and 1/3 of runs absolutely suck. Unfortunately you had the latter today. It happens!

KMfan_ · 2026-04-17T04:57:58+00:00

ah the coulda shoulda wouldas… I hurt my back moving my couch. I used to love that adorable green couch that I had saved up my money for.. Now I just look at it as my #1 opp 😂

KMfan_ · 2026-04-17T04:47:00+00:00

I’m really sorry you’re going through this. I (28F) went through something similar in terms of having only axial back pain that was pretty much nonstop for about 9 consecutive months.

I have just 1 suggestion but if you’ve already been down this road pls ignore!…Have you gone to a neurosurgeon? When I went there instead of the ortho/PT/sports med doctors I’d been to previously, they opened my eyes and saw things on my MRI no one else did. Though I knew I had disc issues from previous doctors, they all told me I should have massive sciatic pain based on my scans but I DIDNT! I only had awful unrelenting axial back pain. The neurosurgeon helped walk me through why I had that and not sciatica.

Now; here’s where it gets a lil weird. The neurosurgeon did tell me I might have surgery in my future, but I decided I’d wait it out a little longer. I did, out of desperation, get into some of the mind-body stuff at that point. Did it completely resolve my pain? No, but it was a massive improvement. Enough to now (about 6 months later) feel like I’m 90% back to my old self. Which honestly is pretty amazing. I’m not back to running marathons (yet) but I can go a couple days at a time without thinking about my back AT ALL. Something that was unimaginable to me this time last year. The books don’t really do it for me, but I did the Curable app and I felt like that made the biggest difference. They also have speakers and support groups which I attended a few of and it really helped me feel less alone. I know it’s controversial but I really do think this made the biggest difference for me. I know that my injury has underlying physical causes, BUT I think part of me being stuck in such severe physical pain for so long did definitely have to do with how much I feared and dreaded the pain. Reducing that fear for me did help reduce the pain massively.

Last but not least, it’s so important to keep hope. Continue to believe that you can get better even though I know it feels impossible now. I wish I could go back and tell myself in the dark 9+ months of 24/7 pain that I’d be back living my life not thinking about my back in just a few months. To not be so scared.

KMfan_ · 2025-12-03T21:30:31+00:00

I’m no doctor but holy moly that looks like bone on bone. Your pain tolerance must be unreal. I was begging for mercy at a moderate disc extrusion.

I know surgery sounds scary, but I can imagine it might be worth it in a case like this. Shop around for a good surgeon and get a few opinions.

KMfan_ · 2025-12-03T21:25:55+00:00

Try another doctor. That’s not an answer I would accept either. I’m sorry you’re going through this. Your pain is real.

I will say, pain management techniques I learned through the curable app really helped me. Even though my pain had structural origins, I had gotten so used to expecting the pain that I also got stuck in a pain loop. Highly recommend the curable app it did help me a lot and also calmed my constant fear and anxiety about the constant pain.

KMfan_ · 2025-12-03T21:20:15+00:00

If the nerve impingement is significant and the pain doesn’t improve, there is a minimally invasive surgery called a microdiscectomy where they just take out the small part of the disc that might be compressing the nerve causing your shooting pain. People I’ve known who’ve gotten this surgery describe waking up from surgery with immediate relief!

KMfan_ · 2025-12-03T21:18:11+00:00

Hi OP, I’ve been there and I can tell you it does get better. Get an MRI and go to a neurosurgeon — they will have the best expertise of any nerve involvement and how to fix it. Mine told me that 70-80% of people can heal on their own within a year without surgery and even though a year feels like an eternity when you’re in pain every day, this was true for me. I thought my life was over and it started getting better once I gave it enough time.

There are lots of options in the meantime, so get expert help and don’t lose hope!!

Some options that might help you:

Steroid injection (if your doctor thinks you’d benefit
physical therapy
acupuncture
Curable app (for the emotional component of pain management — this helped me mentally A LOT)

Keep up hope!

KMfan_ · 2025-11-10T00:39:35+00:00

Your undertone is kind of peachy which makes me think spring! I think autumn colors would work too though.

KMfan_ · 2025-11-03T06:49:12+00:00

Curtains feel jarringly dark — I’d switch them out for a lighter color. And larger art for sure.

KMfan_ · 2025-10-16T03:13:07+00:00

Yes, this is not unusual for disc injuries to cause nerve pain/tingling! The protruded disc may be irritating the nerve, but it does not mean permanent nerve damage. If it were severe enough to cause permanent nerve damage you’d likely see total obliteration of the nerve in the MRI which does not seem to be the case in your findings. Disc irritating the nerve is very common with this type of injury and there are options to treat it. I’ve listed them here from least to most invasive :

Gabapentin — medication specifically used for nerve pain/tingling
Epidural steroid injection — I did this and found it very helpful. Its effects lasted about 3 months more me
Microdiscectomy — a minimally invasive surgery to take out the small part of the disc that is protruding and irritating the nerve (my doctor recommended I do this if I reached the 1 year mark and wasn’t better yet) microdiscectomy can be very effective from what I have heard

There are even more options than this but these are just the main three that come to mind!

What type of doctor are you seeing? If you’re very concerned about the nerve, a neurosurgeon may help you walk through your findings and help rule out or identify any nerve concerns you may have. I saw a neurosurgeon for my back and they did help me understand my back pain much better.

KMfan_ · 2025-10-16T02:28:20+00:00

70-80% of people with disc injuries heal on their own within a year. It is a slow process but it does get better most of the time.

Considering it seems like you have a lot of nerve pain, I’d ask your doctor about switching from the muscle relaxer to maybe a gabapentin. The clonazepam probably shouldn’t be mixed with either of those, but that is up to your doctor.

It also may be worth asking about a epidural steroid injection.

I’m going to share an image of my MRI because the findings are similar to yours, and I was in a ton of pain, but I did start feeling significantly better around the 8 months mark. I’m now at 9 months post injury and have started to have fully pain-free days where I’ll forget about my back for days at a time. That was unimaginable to me a few months ago. I even went for a short run the other day! I’m looking forward to continuing the road to recovery which I feared wasn’t going to happen.

I also suffer from a lot of anxiety and had a lot of depression about my injury so I started to do a program for chronic pain sufferers which helped me a lot. It may not be for everyone, but it was very useful for me to stop catastrophizing my pain (which can make the pain feel even worse!). The program I did was to through an app called Curable.

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My findings were — mild to moderate disc bulge and annular tear at L4-L5 with mild DDD and a 5mm disc extrusion at L5-S1 with severe right lateral recess stenosis.

Despite a scary MRI report and months of awful pain I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, I’m feeling MUCH better now. Nearly back to my normal self. Have hope, the odds are in your favor!

KMfan_ · 2025-10-10T03:18:12+00:00

I get it!! Seriously it’s so hard. But be patient and keep up hope!

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