NickW
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Ok TJ, but remember you
Ok TJ, but remember you asked. Well, I had my last back surgery in Feb. 2010. I was supposed to be off all pain meds within 3 months, at 6 months they put me on gabapentin, after a month of hell on that they tried some other nerve drug which didn't work either. The acupuncture electrical shocking doc happened around 8 months. At 9 months they told me there was nothing else they could do because they couldn't find anything wrong, and they wouldn't put me back on the drugs that did work and acted like I was an addict. Like you, I really didn't like oxycodone and don't like mind altering drugs (unless you count a beer or two here and there or maybe a glass of wine).
After that I started researching natural ways to cure back pain, at least make it well enough for me to lose the 40 pounds I had put on so I didn't have that extra weight making my back hurt even more. At about ten months after my surgery I was out on the road trying to run in my old trainers again but after about a mile my back and legs hurt so bad I was out for a week because the pain was so bad. Then I would go out and try again, only to have the same thing happen.
I had found barefoot running and lifestyle stuff on the web for a couple months but thought that was stupid and for idiots (I know I'm sorry folks, but I could not fathom at the time how being barefoot could be gentler than padded shoes on my back). At about a year I was so terrified I was going to be crippled for the rest of my life that I figured what did I have to lose, so I tried walking barefoot and running in the vff's. I really liked the vff's, but I kept having tofp. After about a week of this my back felt much better, but my feet couldn't take it anymore so I took the vff's off during the middle of a run and voila, foot pain was gone and I was loving being completely barefoot and running. It wasn't more than a few days after that of totally barefoot living that my back pain was but just a memory. To this day I have zero back pain. :bigsmile:
Ok TJ, but remember you asked. Well, I had my last back surgery in Feb. 2010. I was supposed to be off all pain meds within 3 months, at 6 months they put me on gabapentin, after a month of hell on that they tried some other nerve drug which didn't work either. The acupuncture electrical shocking doc happened around 8 months. At 9 months they told me there was nothing else they could do because they couldn't find anything wrong, and they wouldn't put me back on the drugs that did work and acted like I was an addict. Like you, I really didn't like oxycodone and don't like mind altering drugs (unless you count a beer or two here and there or maybe a glass of wine).
After that I started researching natural ways to cure back pain, at least make it well enough for me to lose the 40 pounds I had put on so I didn't have that extra weight making my back hurt even more. At about ten months after my surgery I was out on the road trying to run in my old trainers again but after about a mile my back and legs hurt so bad I was out for a week because the pain was so bad. Then I would go out and try again, only to have the same thing happen.
I had found barefoot running and lifestyle stuff on the web for a couple months but thought that was stupid and for idiots (I know I'm sorry folks, but I could not fathom at the time how being barefoot could be gentler than padded shoes on my back). At about a year I was so terrified I was going to be crippled for the rest of my life that I figured what did I have to lose, so I tried walking barefoot and running in the vff's. I really liked the vff's, but I kept having tofp. After about a week of this my back felt much better, but my feet couldn't take it anymore so I took the vff's off during the middle of a run and voila, foot pain was gone and I was loving being completely barefoot and running. It wasn't more than a few days after that of totally barefoot living that my back pain was but just a memory. To this day I have zero back pain. :bigsmile:
Lol! Yes you can use my story TJ. You can ask all the questions you want. I'm sure all of you know how long winded I am so I could probably give you a novels worth of answers. :bigsmile: I had some funnier remarks for you but I accidently deleted my origional response to you. Errrggg I hate it when I do that. Hey maybe a book of real life anecdotal evidence will make the scientific community take us barefooters a little more seriously.
