My L5 disc has herniated and collapsed causing the vertebra to rub bone on bone at the facet joint. I' m getting spurs, and they are resting at an angle and the muscle has tightened up to attempt to straighten the 2 vertebra. The disc has deteriorated over the years and will continue to get worse. I was told that surgery is not a good option for me at this point. Eventually it will when the disc has deteriorated more. My pain started over 10 years ago and has gotten worse as time went by. this winter was when a became a crybaby.
It' s been found that it is from and old injury in the early 80' s.
I went to a house to wire a new central air handler (a/c-heat) and the wire had fallen down thru the floor, so I crawled under the house to push it back up.
As I crawled I came to a flexible duct. I raised it up and crawled under it, I got to another one and did the same thimg, I found a third and as I raised it up and crawled under it the first one fell down behind my feet.
I raised the 4th one and came face to face with a possum, with baby possums crawling on it.
NOW if you' ve never been face to face with a wild possum that you startled, then you have no idea what it looked like! All I can say is it is one ferocious animal! It was inches from me!
I dropped the duct and tried backing up but a duct was behind my feet and I couldn' t move. The possum came under the 4th duct after me with it' s huge teeth and was inches away from my face! I spun around and crawled as fast as I could with this possum attacking my boots. As I neared the edge of the house I thought I could stand up to run, and WHAM! my lower back hits he edge of the house!
It knocked me to the ground, I couldn' t catch my breath, and my legs were tingling. When I caught my breath and tried to stand my legs were rubbery. Eventually they were fine.

If I had been smart and not let that macho attitude get in the way, I should have went to the hospital but NOOO I didn' t and now I suffer.

I have a dime sized scar on my back, that is how we know what has caused this.