Ow. I am still a bit under the weather due to a nasty cold. Anyway, this morning I was in the bathroom coughing up some green stuff...and the coughs were particularly violent. I threw out my back.
I'm having what seems to be muscle spasms in my lower lower back. I don't know what to do.
To make things worse, tomorrow is the first official day of practice for the university swim team. I really want to go, and I really want to swim.
How do I fix this so I can swim by tomorrow? And should I tell my coach what I did today via e-mail? Will she believe me? Since it's the start of the season, will I even get to stay on the team after this? Help me.
Update: I went and saw a Doc at my student care center today. Apparently I have Piriformis Syndrome which is causing sciatica in my left side. 4-6 weeks to heal. Anyone had this before?
Does you school have a sports-medicine center for the varsity athletes? If so, you should go there. They were always best able to deal with my muscular/skeletal problems when I was in college (and I boast a compression fracture in my spine as well as a shoulder impingement).
If you can avoid it, stay away from muscle relaxers. When I first broke that vertebrae in my spine my freshman year, the medical center didn't do x-rays and just gave me muscle relaxers. It was around finals time, and I took one and then took my books up into the top bunk to study around 4 pm. Got sleepy, woke up at 6 pm. The next day.
Go with ibuprofin instead unless you have a really bad problem.
Does you school have a sports-medicine center for the varsity athletes? If so, you should go there. They were always best able to deal with my muscular/skeletal problems when I was in college (and I boast a compression fracture in my spine as well as a shoulder impingement).
If you can avoid it, stay away from muscle relaxers. When I first broke that vertebrae in my spine my freshman year, the medical center didn't do x-rays and just gave me muscle relaxers. It was around finals time, and I took one and then took my books up into the top bunk to study around 4 pm. Got sleepy, woke up at 6 pm. The next day.
Go with ibuprofin instead unless you have a really bad problem.
