Medications delay or try and block nerve signals of pain from registering.
One of the best ways to deal with chronic back pain is to ignore it.
My apologies and I do not mean to minimize the anguish back pain suffers experience, but I am a trained health care profession, have been for decades...
So remember you have tons of muscles surrounding your back, so simply doing the tiniest exercise will stretch the injured damaged areas. Just tiny simple movements to do a few things.
You want to lengthen the injured muscles slightly, just a bit so they are less likely to cramp up and scream at your nerve endings.
By working your back slowly and ultra carefully you will build up surrounding muscles slowly over time, these additional muscles will support your body and reduce the strain on your chronically injured zones.
One of the best things for injured backs that occasionally cause massive pain is alcohol since it relaxes all the muscles and dims the mind to pain, obviously this is a rare use it. If you start needing alcohol more than once per week, remember bad painful backs last months or years; so avoid alcohol unless you want to become an alcoholic.
No you will not improve in days or maybe even weeks but slowly over time your lifestyle should allow you to move carefully without massive pain nor needing lots of medications.
Understand alcohol is bad long term, marijuana is bad long term and so are prescription medications. Understand your health professional is obligated to keep your pain under control. Essentially many medications are issued by licenced government drug dealers.
I am not trying to be nasty here but sometimes people think the best solution is just more intense drugs. I have posted a basic 300 second exercise program, it is aimed to build up muscle but some people with bad backs can benefit from movement and exercise instead of sitting around popping pills to provide pharmaceutical companies with profit for shareholder dividends...
Please always consider if advice might be correct for your circumstances : )
/ hugz ; )
Thanks so much, @crok. I'm really not a fan of taking pain meds at all, and I do think you're right, we often think pain is an important signal to help us prevent further injury, but I'm learning it's very often not that and something which can be worked past. It's amazing how much our brain is involved in this whole process too. If I can get myself to just "ignore it," I wonder if that would subconsciously fire off messages via the nervous system to those straining muscles to chill the hell out as well.
Either way, this quote I support and will now poor myself a nice little shot of whiskey in celebration thereof:
Thanks for the hugs. :)
Go for herbal medication. I used to have a pain at the back too but I just drink a lot of herbal tea.