Back Pain

Over the past 2 weeks, I've developed some very uncomfortable lower back pain.

Today is the worst.

It started on a weekend that I was rather lazy and stayed in bed way longer than I needed to. But I was reading and was loving it. However, that began the back pain. All of a sudden, I could not bend over very far without feeling as slight twinge in my lower back.

Then I let it rest, but not lying down. I have lessened the intensity of my workouts, which I had already done with my tweaked shoulder.  And it was going fine. It was feeling better.

And then last night, I did a move, standing up, but twisting my trunk, that made my lower back go *ouch*. And so I lowered the intensity and focused on just doing things that were not trunk twisting. And then I took a bath to relax the muscles, and then went to bed.

I think that this was a bad move.

I don't think my posture in the very shallow bath helped matters.

I don't think that my bed helped matters. It's rather soft, and I fear that I'm having a hammock effect.

I hate that! I just bought the mattress 4 months ago! It was a big purchase, I'm not going to throw it out, or donate it, but if it's hurting my back, I don't see how I can stick with it.

So I had really bad sleep last night.
My back hurts more than it ever has.
And I just don't quite know how to focus on things.
I'm in a fog of pain.

Boo.
~Katie