{"id":1886,"date":"2013-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/24\/slipping-back\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T08:28:17","slug":"slipping-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2013\/07\/slipping-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 may not have turned out the way the Mayans had predicted, but it did represent the year I lost six months to illness and recovery. Well, technically, the six months spanned from Oct 2012 to Mar 2013, but you get the drift.<\/p>\n

I’d been battling an increasing amount of lower back pain for a while, but each time it would go away after rest and exercise. A new regime of the McKenzie<\/a> method was showing promising results, but the pain kept recurring in greater intensity and frequency than ever before. Until, one day, I went to bed and couldn’t get up the next morning.<\/p>\n

Then came a series of explorations of finding out my options (ranging from steroids to ozone injections to yet another surgery), and attempts at trying out everything from EFT to cranio-sacral therapy.\u00a0 Finally, what worked for me was electro-acupuncture<\/a> and auriculotherapy<\/a> at the hands of a gifted individual (God bless you, Dr. Mistry!). Of course, weeks of rest and rehabilitation would have to follow. But I was on my way to recovery…<\/p>\n

I’d written about my experience with back surgery, many years ago, in a post<\/a> that shared my learnings; it my way of informing those who were considering the surgical option of what would be in store for them. This post continues where that one left off.<\/p>\n

Here are the lessons I learned from my second<\/em> slipped disc:<\/p>\n