My Tortuous Journey with Severe Back Pain

I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed degenerative disc changes at several levels in my lower back and neck, as well as significant narrowing, or “stenosis,” of the bony passageways through which the nerve roots leave the spinal cord. The month of my 50th birthday I ruptured a disc, sending me crashing to the floor in a seething, slashing, crushing black wall of pain. <a href="https://medium.com/wise-well/my-tortuous-journey-with-severe-back-pain-e1cc12056142">Website</a>