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Carry with a herniated disc
unfy:
Haven't had a chance to try suspenders yet. Hours at work / home have been hectic.
--- Quote from: patrickdm ---I'm curious as to why surgery is out of the question.
--- End quote ---
Surgery changes things. And it's not necessarily "fixing things". I have talked to lots of people about such things over the years... and it seems that there's a few categories that may overlap.
a) it's awesome, fixes everything
b) once you have one back surgery, you always have more due to moving where stress occurs etc.
c) it only changed how the pain was/works/etc
d) it made things worse
e) standard possibilities due to complications
If I can avoid a 'no going back' choice / situation that is surgery - I will gladly do so. It's a personal choice, much like I refuse to take any kind of pain pill that is a narcotic in my current situation.
bkoenig:
I exhausted every other possibility before having surgery - chiropractor, muscle relaxers, pain killers, physical therapy, you name it. I was at a point where I was literally a cripple. I could barely walk, and when I did I looked like Igor from Young Frankenstein. Surgery is a last resort, but for me it was the right choice. I walked in to the hospital bent over at a 90 degree angle and walked out 6 hours later like a normal human being.
I've found the only time I really have problems now that I'm recovered is when I get lazy and stop exercising. If I don't stay in shape I start having sciatic pain, then I start dragging my left foot, and it goes downhill from there. As long as I stay active I'm more or less in the clear.
I completely understand your aversion to pain pills. I was in such agony that I took them, but I HATED it. Between the pain killers and the muscle relaxers I was a zombie. I once sat through an entire hour long meeting at work and had no idea what was said. I can see how people get addicted to them, though, because you build up a tolerance pretty fast. It would be very easy to start taking more and more to get the same effect. It's dangerous stuff.
unfy:
Trying out the Dickie's belt hook based suspenders today.
So far, so good. A bit weird, but not in absolute agony.
Might have them too taught, etc etc etc ... whatever. We'll see how the day turns out.
abbafandr:
FWIW, I only use the shoulder G17 and ankle PF9 on a longish road trip. Much easier to get to than my normal pocket, appendix PF9 or IWB G17.
Like the suspenders. :laugh:
unfy:
Suspenders: 8 hours of carry yesterday went smoothly. Carrying again today with same set of Dickies suspenders at the same tension as yesterday.
So far, a thumbs up.
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