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I guess I'm a real boomer now, lol.
Same thing happened to me a few years back, I popped a few vertebrae in my spine. Luckily that was it, and I healed up fine. Hope you get better soon!
21 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 3h
I popped a few vertebrae in my spine
You mean the disks ruptured? Can that heal? I was under the impression that they stay ruptured - like worn out shocks on a car.
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I’m not sure what the right word is in English, but it was like small cracks in two of my vertebrae.
I was under the impression that they stay ruptured
That I don’t know, the doctor said there was nothing they could do. Just had to wait a few months and then get an X-ray to see how it was. I had to wear this kind of exo-skeleton thing for a while to keep my back straight. After that, the doc said I was good as new… but I always wonder if they just say that so we don’t worry too much! ~lol
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3h
I’m not sure what the right word is in English
sounds like a fracture
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That’s it. In Portuguese we call it a ‘fratura’. ~lol
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 24m
doctor said there was nothing they could do
centralized medical doctors usually don't know what to do or essentially say: "there's nothing we cud do that wudn't harm you;"
u probably have a small compression deformity (as seen in a sample image below); if u got an X-ray, then the smallest one u cud see wud give u issues for a few months; if u got a CT, small ones are visible, maybe a few weeks of recovery; if it were seen only by MRI, then it's essentially meaningless; there is a wide variation of what is small and what is large - sometimes decided by whether surgeons are getting greedy and want referrals...
i think everyone shud be curious how their own pictures look like and ask around for an additional look;
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 3h
i was wondering the same: compression fracture, or portion of a disk popped out of disk-space?
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3h
I think it's only muscles and tendons got their asses handed to them by gravity and concrete... so imma just lay low for a day or two. Also I am now looking as if I'm 25% smurf and these days where the overseer may ship you to some foreign prison based on racial profiling... you never know. Better safe than sorry.
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