To answer the question, I'm a sissy, I have a low threshold for pain. Although, when I'm pissed and the adrenaline from the anger kicks in, I become freakily unstoppable.
If you're open to suggestions about your back pain, I would certainly suggest losing the excess fat around your midsection. You don't have to have a six pack but having any beer gut at all is going to negatively effect your lower back. You say that you don't have too big of a beer gut, which may be a relative term since I have no idea how big your belly is, but you have to understand that extra weight in the midsection is going to throw your balance out of whack. Soon the weight starts pulling forward and your lower back begins to compress, its extremely painful as well as hard on the spine. Think of a pregnant women here, almost all pregnant women in the third trimester will have back pain thats extremely painful; its comparable to the negative effects of a beer gut.
Now that we have that covered, begin to weight train your abdomen and your lower back. If you're willing to put in the effort, I GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL ATLEAST FEEL BETTER TO A DEGREE; the weight training cannot hurt. Just be 100% certain to work the lower back and abdomen equally because they're complimenting muscles, one pushes and the other pulls against one another and you definately do not want to become unbalanced.
Lastly, stretch.
Will this solution completely solve your back problem? Possibly. Will it help your back problem? Absolutely, so its worth a shot.
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The best part about pain is...it lets you know that you are still alive
I heard that once.. from a movie somewhere, I don't remember. I like it.
Oh, and when I had my wisdom teeth pulled and 11 cavities filled, I didn't take any meds afterwards.. I don't medicate unless its antibiotics or a fever.. I hate fevers more than I hate medication.
Without pain, you would not be able to identify pleasure.
Life needs its ups and downs. I believe man is driven on hope and in order to understand hope, one must understand what it is like to be at the bottom of the barrel and then climb to the top.
For the record, I love that quote that you posted.
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Two years ago, I went into the hospital for a cough, skip foward through a stroke, clinical death, heart transplant, cancer, and we come to the annual biopsys where they check the right side of my heart. While awake, they enter my femoral artery (at your groin) and pass this water-hose type instrument up your body to your hear where a grappeling hook type instrument claws off a small chunk of tissue from your heart. So far, It's on my top ten of pains...
Perhaps the worst pain was when my mother told me she had wished I had died, or maybe i'd just make her life easier and kill myslef...that hurt.
You are an inspiration. Strangely enough, thinking about people such as yourself that have been through what can only be referred to as hell and back, makes me become watery eyed and rekindles my hope that there are truly strong and great people out there in the world.
Its an absolute shame that a loved one could be so selfish to only think of their pain, when a man such as yourself has suffered so greatly. Thats plain cold hearted. I would have done one of two things had I been put in this situation, 1) crumbled and withered away into nothing and ceased to exist or 2) become so motivated by rage that I strived to be the best that I could be. It appears as if you took the road less taken.
Its all in how you lift.
Go figure.
