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[burntcorky]

Around my 19th birthday, I decided to finally take action and get myself healthy. I'm 6'3" and currently 320 lbs. I began reading MDA and got Primal Blueprint and got really serious about getting healthy. I have quite a lot of muscle mass (more than I really want, actually), but a LOT more fat than my body needs. I was born with asthma, and was never able to be active when I was little. I got steroids, too, and inactivity + steroids during my first 5 years caused a lot of problems. I figured, though, when I'm 18 years old and I still have the same problems, amplified times ten, plus a thousand more, that it has become my problem, and I'm responsible for fixing it. I spent my 18th year trying to figure out ways to get healthy, but this April, when I turned 19, I started to take action. I tried fixing my diet, tried to get rid of stress, tried to sleep more and play more and be more happy. It was working for the first week of application. Then...

BAM! I was running down the road, and wasn't watching where I was going. All of a sudden, under my left foot, the ground raised six inches! There was a new sidewalk being built, and I hadn't noticed. So, my heel slammed onto the sidewalk so hard that I felt something snap in my lower back. I couldn't even let my left leg come down and straighten out. For a while I thought for some reason that I pinched my sciatic nerve, but now I'm almost certain that it's my sacroiliac joint. I don't know what the problem is with it. It has been two months, and I still can't sit, stand, walk, or sleep without being in horrendous pain. So, all of my activity has been cut to almost nothing. I cannot move. Sometimes, on the weekends, I can rest myself and the pain slightly goes away, but every night of work undoes every bit of progress that I make. Now, I can't be active at all! I physically cannot run. Any time that put any weight on my left side, it feels like a knife going directly into my SI joint.

I don't know what to do! I can't be Primal if I can't even move!

Anyone else had this problem? Or know what can be done to get fit, even though you're almost wheelchair-bound?

[arthurb999]

Have you been to a doctor, physical therapist or chiropractor?

[apple]

Orthopedic doctor should be your first step. If you are in constant pain, it's probably a big deal. If you were just in pain during certain activities, you could maaaybe put it off. But horrible pain all the time is pretty serious. When you rest on the weekends, are you sitting or lying down? Have you tried ice or heat therapy?

Your doctor might be able to sign off on some temporary disability paperwork for your work. If you are lucky enough to have such a benefit, that is. Either way, go to a doctor instead of asking strangers online to fix your back!! :P

[apple]

Also, since you are just starting out primal, stick to primal foods if you can. You should still lose fat even if you cannot exercise right now. And protein is essential to healing most everything!

[starrchilde]

Do you have access to a swimming pool? Perhaps the buoyancy will help while you're waiting to see what the doctor has to say (*hint*hint*).

Outside of that, stick to the way of eating and I hope you're able to get to a pain-free place soon.

[Mac]

Get thee to a GOOD chiropractor - preferably a graduate of Western States Chiropractic College or Texas Chiropractic College if you can find one. They are in my opinion the top science based colleges and most likely not to produce doctors that will rip you off with scam treatments. I have had major issues with the SI joint and my chiros have been indispensable to me being pain free and mobile.

[Dr. Bork Bork]

Can't say enough for my chiro. He's the one that got me started on my weight loss journey. First recommendation: Stop consuming dairy, cuz it's EVIL! He's riiii-iiight. He's from Texas, so I dunno if he went to the schools Mac is talking about, but I luvs him. He does body energy & everything. He can cure vertigo bouts (which I get kinda regularly), and make super bad moods turn happy.

[burntcorky]

Thanks for all the help and concern, guys! I haven't been to a doctor or the hospital in a long while. For the past 4 years, I have tried going to hospitals for various things. It seems like I'm on a blacklist or something! I couldn't even get any bloodwork done, or any x-rays! They tell me that there's nothing wrong with me. I live in south Mississippi, and things here are (for the most part) so backwards! I was thinking about trying to find a chiropractor, but can't find any rates online. I'd probably have to be accessed first, though, right?

Yeah, I would be able to totally stick to the Primal diet if my family could accept it. I'm expected to eat anything that's cooked, and if I don't, they get insulted. They think I'm crazy when I say that grains are poisonous and that fat can be good for you! I love eating beans and vegetables and meat, but my family mostly eats pastas and sandwiches. This may sound crazy, but my grandfather who is 71 eats -- I'm not kidding at all -- ONLY sandwiches. When he gets his SS check every month, he goes to the dollar store and buys a month worth of bologna, "pasteurized milk product", and white bread. That's what he eats every day. Not a thing else, other than his beer and koolaid. It's scary. He's 6'0" and usually between 95 and 100 lbs. He never complains about any pains, though. No clue what has kept him alive for this long. That's been his diet since I was born.

starrchilde, I just tried swimming for the first time in two years, two days ago! It was very fun, and didn't hurt me very much at all. When I got out, I felt very relaxed and the pain went down some.

Every day, though, I am getting as much more Primal as I can! My diet is getting cleaned up, too, more and more each day. It would be pretty good if I could just learn to tell my family that I cannot eat their grain products. I tell them every day, but I guess they think that I'm just joking!

Thanks so much, guys! It means a lot to get your advice. I'll keep you updated on how my back gets, and my Primal progress! Thanks

-Aidan

[TigerLily]

It's a long story, but what pertains to this discussion is that I had constant sacrum and R sacroiliac pain for three years. Constantly red hot to the touch and I could only bear the slightest touch. Six weeks of 2x weekly atlas orthogonal chiropractic, and that pain is gone.

ETA: It's soooo important to keep your body as un-inflamed as you possibly can right now.