As far as what I did...
I was on my way up to the blue ridge campground 2 years ago... took a slow fall in some loose gravel.
I just had a skinned knee... was cussin' myself and looked over at the bike, just had filled it up about half hour before, and the gas was drippin' out of the cap onto the hot engine....
I freaked, grabbed the handle bar and the trunk (I had about 80 lbs worth of stuff stacked on top), and facing the bike I jerked it up (bad move), my back popped rather loudly and instant pain.
I still continued with the gang for about 3 days, then bugged out to home.
It was a compression fracture on my L4.... well, the military didn't see it on their xray and sent me to therapy... yeah... made me do situps, leg presses ect... made it worse.
After about 4 months I told them I needed to see a specialist, they sent me to a spine doc.... he told me that it had healed already and I got some steroid shots.
3X last year and once this year already..... it is not working.... so now the nerve burning.
It is supposed to last a year, we shall see.
Thanks for the posts, had to bump my appointment to next Friday.... and now the new doctor wants to "go over my records and talk to me first".... which I think is great
, now I can grill him.
Oh, and they won't "fuse" it with plates and screws, because my years worth of chemo messed up my bone density (I have osteoporosis) and they are afraid the screws will crack the vertebra that they anchor into.