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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago

So... this sent me down a little rabbit hole. I just want to advise you all, fellow lemmings, to be good to your back from here on out.

https://www.umms.org/ummc/health-services/orthopedics/services/spine/patient-guides/lumbar-herniated-disc

As the annulus weakens, at some point you may lift something or bend in such a way that you cause too much pressure across the disc. The weakened disc ruptures while you are doing something that five years earlier would not have caused a problem. Such is the aging process of the spine.

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 34 points 3 days ago

My wife has a genetic disorder that (among many other things) causes her spine to herniate at the drop of a hat. She's had to have emergency surgery multiple times.

About a year and a half ago, a neurosurgeon was operating on her and came to talk to me and my mom who were waiting. She was extremely excited, in that like "academic who just saw something new" kind of way, because my wife had the third biggest herniation she'd ever seen, and the largest in a patient under 70 (my wife was 34 at the time). She asked if it would be OK if she invited a professor from the local university and a couple of his grad students to come look at it.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Oh wow. Congrats... I guess? Glad that your wife has access to good care for that condition.

I've been in the ER for something that... well I won't say, but it was of interest to the attending folks. Next thing I knew, there were two grad students in tow, eager to learn stuff that you only usually see in a textbook. I recall feeling strangely proud, and more proud than embarrassed (oddly enough). It was a weird experience.

[-] 48954246@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Would that genetic disease happen to be EDS? My wife has just come home from her third surgical visit for spinal problems, at 33 years old.

Two previous discectomies. This last one was a double whammy of spinal decompression and a full on fusion.

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is indeed EDS. ๐Ÿ™

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Also the surgeries often have to be done from the front, so doctors have to put organs out of the way, operate the spine, put everything back. It's really scary. Everytime I think of it I start sitting a little more upright.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

I just sent this to someone with hefty spine troubles.

I hope they don't risk a disk when they laugh about this wonderfully dumb shit.

[-] Atropos@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

The spondylolisthesis (listhesis) one isn't quite accurate - it should be the whole spine above the joint in question shifted forward. You don't really see just one vertebral body sticking out like that.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 days ago

Fun fact: discs can herniate multiple times even after you've shrunk half an inch in height and think all the cream has been squeezed out from between the cookies.

[-] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

My back hurts just looking at this. Herniated a disk a while back and I don't wish that pain on my worst enemy.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Not even Hitler?

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Are these Merengadas?

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Lost my job thanks to #2, and a little bit of #3

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I'm hungry now. Does that make me a cannibal?

[-] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

The forbidden cream

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

How would one represent a bulging disc

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hernia, but a little baby bump. My doctor describes it like having a tack in your back and I like that metaphor.

[-] kenoh@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

You need a DDD one where the cream is gone.

[-] Mojave@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Schmorl's node is hiding in plain site

[-] krippix@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

My favorite stays Bandscheibenvorfall sorry

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I resemble this meme!

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

"Spine" being the most abnormal to have.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

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