What do you do if you have two discs in your lower back that are drying out? My chiropractor helps and I?
started Physical Therapy so I’ll have to see how that goes. I have to wear a back support that has velcro to hold it closed and two strings to tighten it up. I’m always in chronic pain, even when I exercise, but then the pain seems to be a little more bearable then. I’ve never heard of such a thing as discs drying out, meaning the cushion in between the bones is drying out. My chiropractor said drink a lot of water, and another one that works there said Glucosamine should help.
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Your chiropractor is a dolt. That’s not called "discs drying out" it’s called "degenerative disc disease" and it’s progressive. Drinking lots of water will do nothing for it. Not to say you shouldn’t drink lots of water- that’s a common sense habit people have to practice in order to maintain good health. Glucosamine is excellent….. FOR JOINTS. The last time I checked, facet joints only cause problems if their clanging together, and you can’t help that because the discs are going bad. Physical therapy might help a bit. The most useful treatment of the essentially useless treatments (chiropractors, physical therapy, etc) is long-term traction.
But- if you’re old enough and it’s really causing a problem, surgery is the ONLY long term fix-it. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I’ve suffered from chronic pain due to degenerative disc disease (along with lumbar spinal stenosis, 3 extruded discs and 1 herniated, and severe endometriosis) since I was 10 years old, and all my docs say that the only way to fix discs that’ve lost their fluid is surgery. Everything else is short-term and cost-prohibitive.