Disclaimer: This is not a medical post. I’ve not referred to anything to write it, and I only vaguely understand what I’m talking about… if you are looking for medical advice, please look elsewhere.
My twitters for the past few days have mainly been moaning about my back hurting. I injured it last week, and have been out-of-action since.
I’ve been diagnosed today, so thought I’d share the full scale of my pain and woe with the world.
I have an annular tear in my lumbar region.
I’m trying to resist the temptation to google for this (seriously – that way madness lies!) but from what I remember of the doc’s description, one of the discs between the vertebrae in my spine has torn, causing the jelly (?!) inside to leak out. The jelly is what caused the muscles around the disc to inflame and spasm – a big cause of the pain I’ve been having since last week.
The idea