Looks like my bodybuilding days might be numbered. This is fucked up.

[DJ_UFO]

Let me ask you something. Do you live from bodybuilding? is that your source of income? your career?

If the answer is no, then it would be absolutely stupid to put your health in risk. Not even average IQ is required to realize that.

If the answer is yes, then we go to plan B. I will appreciate if you answer first.

This is when the use of reason comes to play, and that is exactly where humans fail over and over again. Why? because they, and you in this case my friend, guide your life based on emotions (i.e. depression, fear, etc) emotions are unstable; irrelevant. Plans and goals are accomplished with reason, logic. ok enough for now.

 

[OMEGA]

stop the Comp

get surgery

then go back to Machine work only when you heal

 

[PJuice]

I understand ur pain completely. I broke my neck 12 years ago, had a C5 and C6 fusion. I was fine for the next 8 years. Not even a slight pain with weight training and fighting MMA. One morning 2 years ago, I woke up with the most severe pain ever in my neck and left shoulder. Debilitated me for about 2 weeks. Got all the Mri's and scans done to tell me I have cervical stenosis, pinching a nerve. The neurosurgeon refused to operate, claiming it was to risky. Once i went back to the gym, I had only about 45% of my strength in my left side. Primarily in my pressing movements involving shoulder and left tricept. My left arm looked like a toothpick. It was devestating losing all the mass I had worked years to build. Presently, I would say i have about 90% of my strength back, and my left arm is still about a half inch smaller than the right. I worked around it, lifted smart and have made a pretty good recovery. I know its mentally tough, but try to stay positive and focused. It may not be the end of ur training. The human body is capable of some pretty amazing things.

 

[joe d]

The Lifts that are harming me and I can feel are any exercise at all that causes me to arch backwards causes the numbness and pinches the nerve. Any exercise at all that causes my spine to compress causes numbness. Any exercise which causes my body to twist at all causes numbness. I can feel it in most exercises other than ones where I am braced but still have to concentrate on keeping my spine erect otherwise I go numb Pretty much nothing heavy at all. I'm willing to get the surgery and hopefully it will fix me up but I want to see if it can wait until after the show. I'm just wondering what the odds are of me being to lift afterwards other than calistenic type stuff or if lifting this way until the show id gonna fuck me up to much. I guess I will find out wednesday.

i think you already know the answer here. all your going to do is make it worse. i would take it easy man. i wouldnt do anything that will agrivate the area. continuing to train in the shape your in is asking for the issue to become more serous. its just 1 show screw it.

 

[OMEGA]

Iron when you get out of surgery add Light Deca to your TRT in perpetuity

I know 3 vets that absolutely need there 150mgs a week to function vibrantly

 

[Captain FT]

Some of you might know I have always had an issue with back problems and have had to work around them. The past month or so I have been getting pins and needles along with numbness at times along my right glute and leg down into my heel. I thought it could just be that I needed an adjustment and went to see my chiro. After seeing him a few times the numbness had persisted. He sent me for Xrays which revealed what I had always know..I have degenerated L5/S1 disc. He looked at these and then decided to send me out for an MRI. The MRI shows the degeneration of the 2 discs along with a 7mm bulge and nerve inpingement. This is totally fucked up. I am seeing a neuro surgeon this next wednesday to discuss my options about doing my coming show in December or if I need surgery now....and if I get the surgery what does it mean for me and my lifting. The last thing I want is to end up paralyzing myself by deadening the nerve but lifting and competing has become a BIG part of my life and I don't know what I would do if I had to stop completely. I was 300 pounds before I got healthy and depression is what put me at that weight in the first place. I'm in total fear of what's gonna happen with this.

Sorry to hear that man. I would say, unless competing is your sole source of income, get the surgery now. There will be many other shows you can do in the future, but you want there to be a future of other shows. As much as it sucks, I wouldn't wait.

 

[RADAR]

Agree with whats been said,you could be a ticking time bomb ,think about it!

 

[rambleon]

Utter bummer! My hope and prayers go to you man...

 

[ledhead]

Some of you might know I have always had an issue with back problems and have had to work around them. The past month or so I have been getting pins and needles along with numbness at times along my right glute and leg down into my heel. I thought it could just be that I needed an adjustment and went to see my chiro. After seeing him a few times the numbness had persisted. He sent me for Xrays which revealed what I had always know..I have degenerated L5/S1 disc. He looked at these and then decided to send me out for an MRI. The MRI shows the degeneration of the 2 discs along with a 7mm bulge and nerve inpingement. This is totally fucked up. I am seeing a neuro surgeon this next wednesday to discuss my options about doing my coming show in December or if I need surgery now....and if I get the surgery what does it mean for me and my lifting. The last thing I want is to end up paralyzing myself by deadening the nerve but lifting and competing has become a BIG part of my life and I don't know what I would do if I had to stop completely. I was 300 pounds before I got healthy and depression is what put me at that weight in the first place. I'm in total fear of what's gonna happen with this.

I feel for you bro, I been on the IR since Jan 2nd, it's depressing when you can't do something you love to do or been doing for 20 some odd years it becomes your life.

Anyway, listen to the other fellows your health is more important,do you want to be disabled
for the rest of your life? I have a serious wrist injury I argued with the Doctor fo rmonths not
too get surgery. After a while he came right out in said "five years from now do want to able too use your arm, if so get the surgery" Geuss hard on what I did! If their telling you that you need surgery get it!

 

[Only1eagle]

Good luck to you man! Your EF family is pulling for ya!