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I am going to vent about back pain. I fell in February, backwards in my apartment. It wasn't so bad the first two weeks but then it got worse and seemed to spread from very low back on up. I saw a back doctor yesterday and got a prescription for PT and Diclofenac. The pill helped a lot last night but today not much at all, but I can't take Advil on top of that.
I spent a lot of time on the phone with Humana to get PT lists that are close to me. I'm in NYC and need to walk to m appointments or maybe just take a short bus ride. I called 3 times before I got a list that included my zip code. The other lists included PTs in New Jersey, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. Then I spent a lot of time trying to make an appointment at a specific place on West 57th Street. I have to wait until 4/25 to get in for my first appointment. I've been through all of this with knee PT. I went for five months in 2021 and still having bad knee pain, still do the exercises and swim laps. I see the knee doctor next Monday.
I've started having a lot of pain the days after I swim. Swimming always did help my back in the past. There were no fractures. I can't remember if the doctor came up with anything specific to my problem and I have nothing in writing, not even in the portal. He says I do have scoliosis, but I was born with that and knew about it for years. No problems in my childhood except when I was in a car accident, age 17. It's only slight (I was told when I had my first chest x-ray). I asked the doctor if I have arthritis ("yes"). I think I have it all over. It has taken over my knees.
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