One important question you forgot about, Doc... by acesontop

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One important question you forgot about, Doc...
I swear this is the last post I am talking about health problems and other personal nonsense that I bothered you lately on this blog. You probably wish to read some more cheerful posts on this blockchain. This one though might help you as well, because it's not just me ranting about the medical system like I did [in here](https://steemit.com/hive-167922/@acesontop/i-don-t-know-about-that-it-s-plants-based-well-you-should-know), but rather an educative post. Yes, education on my blog... I know it sounds weird. 

Anyway, the back problems, and the leg ones that seem to be caused by the sciatic nerve, that I mentioned about in previous posts, kind of stroke me at the beginning of October, when I started to become more physically inactive and drowned myself for hours on a chair in front of my laptop. They don't have an overnight cause, as they would have probably be gone by now, if they did. It's something that *I worked on* for years, without even knowing. 

Usually when you get to a doctor, some general one, not a specialist, whom I should have visited, they ask you about your work, in case of such health condition, if you do any sports, and the most important question for them is: *have you lifted heavy objects lately?*. Yes, probably most of the back problems are caused by lifting heavy things, and I encountered such situations over time, but they usually go away after a few days or weeks. They're not like some sort of silent killers, more like being loud screamers. 

![hammock-2589814_1280.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWaz7jJ4QtXmXHvmhdYgVsmevqAMxGnoAAFNABCVUfPWE/hammock-2589814_1280.jpg)
[image source](https://pixabay.com/photos/hammock-relax-chill-sleep-pillow-2589814/)

One important questions, that I found about, and that none of the doctors I've talked to, that I should have been asked, is:*how do you sleep?*. Yes, rarely do we pay any attention on how we sleep, especially when being teenagers or in the first years right before getting old. You go to bed on whatever position you feel like comfortable and you fall asleep, without even knowing it. Then you wake up the next morning, live the day, and repeat the cycle day after day, year after year. 

During sleep, which can take something between five and eight hours per night, the body usually doesn't change position too much, so imagine staying for eight hours with your neck, your spine and your legs bend in all sort of weird positions, keeping them under tension. For this matter, I have noticed myself as being a very weird sleeper, as I have quite the most damaging sleeping positions, and such positions might even be guilty for the scoliosis and sciatic nerve pain that I am dealing with. 

Bending and twisting vertebrates, nerves and muscles, for about eight hours a day, would at some point cause some affections and the body's triggering system to make you aware of the situation is pain. It doesn't have any other communication channel with you. Hence you start feeling pain in the back, legs, neck, or even headaches. Not all of them could be 100% caused by sleeping positions, but you will be amassed to see how much it affects such conditions, and I will link [a youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8VGqxks-ho) that *enlightened me* for this matter. 

My favorite sleeping position is some sort of a twisted sleeping one, on my stomach, with the right leg bend to the right. Guess what this one can cause? Scoliosis and pain in the hips, and leg muscles or nerves(sciatica). Exactly what's bothering me. Not only that I stress out those vertebrates, nerves and muscles during the day with laying on a chair in front of my laptop for hours, but I continue doing that over the night as well. It's like I'm somehow my own enemy, day and night. 

For every problem there are at least five solutions, if you start to think and ponder a bit, and this guy in the above linked youtube video not only explains about what and how pain is caused by "bad sleeping" but gives some healthy alternatives on the way as well. One of which I am happy to implement, and that is sleeping on my back and using two pillows, as he indicates. My least attractive sleeping position will have to become my most attractive one, because this is the best one. 

Now, if I would have been careful at how I was waking up, after some good hours of sleep over night, I would have discovered by myself what's wrong, but I wasn't paying attention to that particular detail, and neither did the doctors ask about. They probably don't sleep at night, and that's why they don't consider it causing something related to it, and instead of trying to solve a problem from "its roots", they prefer dealing with "the leaves" and just shill some pills and gels to fix things, or get you to the knife when the situation asks for it. 

Nothing's just black and white though, and paying attention to details is where one generally finds proper solutions, in most of the problems. I am this type of guy digging into details and although I haven't particularly searched for this video, it appeared as a recommendation on Youtube and I'm pretty grateful for finding it. Sometimes the Universe, or however do you want to call this mysterious creative power, finds the way to pour the right liquor in the right glass, at the right time. 

**Thanks for attention,**
**Adrian**
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@bluemoon ·
Thanks for the video, it's good to know.
The neurologist doctor from Iasi who consulted me also has back pain. He told me that he got rid of them after changing the mattress with a special one (unfortunately very expensive).
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@acesontop ·
I thought about that too. About how much does it cost? 
At least I will try to sleep on my back, as it is the healthiest posture. I'll some physical therapist as well and do more about this to get rid away of all *this noise*.
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@bluemoon ·
They are extremely expensive. The doctor bought it from a friend for 1000 euros but the new one costs 5000 euros. I don't mind the brand, it's English, but at this cost, I'm not interested.
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@movingman ·
Great post man! Its something that had accured to me by watching others sleeping, and later in life also experiencing the Sciatica, and also *what a coincidendse* the sleeping position you decribed is also one of my favs 😣

Its one I havent learnt much about, but i often think for example if its best to use no pillow or what etc, Like I say, great post, and thanks!
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@acesontop ·
Thanks. I am now working on, sleeping on my back, as my favorite sleeping position. Not using a pillow, don't seem to like them anymore. I use instead a soft small blanket.
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@movingman ·
seems like your finding it easy to readjust to sleep on the back?
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@heartbeat1515 ·
Back problem will never go away.  It is a degenerative or traumatic cause pain. Sometimes we are born with it, like some of the scoliosis problem.

Lifting does not cause back problem,  it is the way we lift and the weight of the object that we lift that cause the problem. 

If we want to lift some heavy things, we just need to do it with the right technique and sufficient muscle strength. 

Just an opinion though. Love this post.  
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@xplosive · (edited)
My brother was born with scoliosis. He had three back surgeries in his life.
He cannot/should not lift heavy things, and he cannot/should not sit in one place for a long time. As far as I remember, this is advised by his doctor, but maybe I am wrong in this case. My situation is similar. I am visually impaired. My doctor's advise is to avoid team play games and the risk of direct hit to my eyes. And this is written on papers.
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@heartbeat1515 ·
Doctor advices ate meant to preventvany other furthe complications. Youbre not wrong.  We are only exchanging opinion.  

In my opinion, 
It's true that we can't sit in one place with the same position for a long time because it can give excessive pressure to our spine and that is not good because there are a lots of nerve end around our spine. It may cause compression tonour nerve and other symptom like pain,  numbness and uneasiness will come and the longer the nerve is compressed it will end up with continuously pain. 

About the lifting,  it depends on our job.  Some people can't avoid lifting so I think the only solution is to strengthen the muscles.  It might not be able to stop the condition get worst but it might be able to slow down the process. If could be avoided then it would be much better I guess.

For your condition,  I agree with the doctor. By following his advice you could use your eyes for a longer time.  It is a precaution measure I guess. 

I still believe that the best doctor is our ownself. We know which one are the best for us. Advices are option, we can choose to follow,  refuse or take it as a precaution matters. Though some advices are a must to follow for our own sake. 

Great talking to you. 
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@xplosive ·
> During sleep, which can take something between five and eight hours per night, the body usually doesn't change position too much, so imagine staying for eight hours with your neck, your spine and your legs bend in all sort of weird positions, keeping them under tension.

I do not have to imagine. I already know it. Sometimes my legs and/or arms hurts or numb after I wake up from sleeping in a bad position. That is obviously not pleasant at all. We indeed not often, but sometimes physically move in the bed during our sleeps, and we may turn our bodies into bad positions without even knowing it. We just realize it by feeling pain or numb (or even the both in different parts of the body) after we wake up. Even when I start sleeping on my back, I may turn my body to the left and/or to the right side during sleeping. Without even knowing it. By the way, I am already using two pillows in my bed.
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@acesontop ·
I don't move too much, it's just that I very often choose the worse position, which is on my stomach. Now I'm forcing myself to sleep on my back.
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