Lower back pain do not heal and I am strange…

Thank you very much for your support and willingness to help.

I have an appointment with a doctor december 9. He will most likley prescribe stonger anti-inflammatory than what I have tried. And maybe x-ray my back. My chiropractor says first try stronger anti-inflammatory and if that not helps, x-ray the back.

I can’t figure out if it is bone or muscular problem.

BUT now, when I have been sitting down for a few hours and stand up, it feels the pain have moved from left side to the right side a bit.

The chiropractor wants to see if the cause right now is the inflammation before x-rays, as he beleives it is an inflammatory issue now.

Maybe I should try to do all but the backbending poses.

An ayurvedic doctor I visit recommended an ayurvedic herbal preparation for inflammation I have not tried before.

Thanks for all suggestions and support.

I found a post where you, Gabrielle, wrie about focusing on backbends.

This article also talks about that:
http://www.bikramyoga.com/testimonials/HerniatedDiscs.htm

Thete is says that the first part of the Camel can be done several times during the day. I tried that yesterday and it feels OK.

Maybe I have been wrong in focusing more on the forwards bends, and should not work hard in them.

Bikram dialog from iTunes is really good. Now I understand what he means with push, push, push, kill yourself etc. That IS how it feels when you do yoga with a backproblem. But of course, it is about a stretch pain, not an injury pain. And the push, push, push, kill yourself, work hard etc do not really apply when you already are healed, flexible and strong I guess. I can feel that in some poses.

Gabrielle, you should als o have a dialogue for download. So we the “homeyogis” can have different teachers. Now, when no dialogue it takes like 30 min faster, 60 min instead of 90, but when one really want to be like in a studio it is great with the dialogue and a great way to be remined about the details, yet important, one do forget.

Most backbends seem to have goo effects on my back, BUT, the bow on the floor is terrible. I don’t know why, but bending backwards and lefting both legs hurts. Standing Bow feels good. Strange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoarthritis

so, i guess bikram yoga and ayurveda can help me, and the most famous hot yoga doctor… gabriell scanlon!

in this article Osteoarthritis is not just because one is considered old… ( i do insist i am ageless…;-) but it is a process of years of wear and tear.

It also might be Spondylitis.

So difficult when names differ from swedish and english.

Spondartros is what the doctor said it is called in Swedish.

I asked an indian ayurvedic doctor (vaidya) that visits Sweden now and then, and he thinks it is Spondylitis. But I don’t think so..

Confusing…

5 days (out of 10) on anti-inflammatiry drugs. Does not help.

Maybe it is the Bikram Yoga itself that creates this wear and tear and inflammation? I hope not, as it is so good for my whole body, but maybe not for my back… 9 months of pain and stiffness and struggle with the yoga. I seem to be worse in the back from the Bikram Yoga, especially the backbends aggravate stiffness and pain.

After the backbend in the half moom I can hardly bend forward at all as my back gets so stiff from this backbending. Anf the bow on the floor is so very painful, just by lifting legs 1 cm.

This summer I rested on full week wth no Yoga and no skateboarding, but it did not make any difference at all.

The only time I really feel good is 30 minutes of skateboarding and just by sitting on a chair or in a sofa.

Will the rest of my life be in a chair and sofa and I will become a couchpotato? 🙁

Finally!

What I have is called Spondylarthropathy.

Now, as Bikram Yoga ahs not helped so far, any ideas how to chnage and adapt my Bikram Yoga practice so that it will help heal my condition?

Than you Gabrielle.

You are try about benefits. From 1982-2000 I had lower backpain problems that came, disappeared with the help of a chiropractor, came back, disappeared with the help of a chiropractor etc. I did yoga a lot, even yoga specialiced for back problems but it did not help. Some told me I shold stop skating and one yoga teacher told me to try something like Bikram Yoga. My chirpractor told me to go to the gym.

Going to a gym was out of the question as there is no gym close where I live, and it takes too much time from my skateboarding (and watching Syar Trek… ;-). I asked John Douillard, expert in ayurveda and author of Body, Mind and Sports, to help me with yoga, and he told me to check out Bikrams book. So I bought and it looked in it while going through the series, but truing to do it and looking in the book got so frustrating I picked it up and threw it a way a few meters… Then went to the net and read somewhere to read one chapter, do that pose and next day add a pose. So I did that and in 26 days or so I had learned the series. My back felt better, I went to the chiropractor and he asked what I had done, as he saw positive changes with my body – my core was stronger. He did some corrections, went home and continuned with Bikram Yoga and skateboarding and didn’t need to go back to the chiropractor until now, 7 years later… not bad!

I have had some small problems in my back during these 7 years, like many athletes, but it disappeared within 3 days of Bikram Yoga.

Then this june I woke up one morning with stiffness and pain.

I have tried some other yoga, targeting back problems, but it does not help. So Bikram YOga is my choice again. And I think I will be areful with he floor bow, and only lift the legs and not twist and try to grab them. It seems to create some kind of pressure in my back that is not good. Or try a towel or something to grab on as you suggested before.

I guess I should be very careful with all poses, and don’t go too deep, but to a light stretch.

I am not giving up…