u/SingerMinimum6275

I’m in my late 20s and used to go to the gym about three times a week. About a month ago, I lifted something heavy, and immediately got lower back pain and sciatic nerve pain.

I thought I had recovered, so I went back to the gym and turned out to be a huge mistake. The pain got so bad that I ended up crying at the gym.

Now it’s been a month. The sciatic nerve is better, but I still can’t sit or stand for more than a few minutes.
The pain and discomfort have completely disrupted my life.

I saw a doctor who recommended physiotherapy, but it hasn’t really solved the issue.
What concerns me most is that the pain doesn’t seem to be gradually improving over time. It’s almost like an on/off switch. If I spend most of my time lying down, the pain can almost completely disappear.

Is it normal for the pain to keep coming back at full intensity even after a month?
What should I do?
Can I go back to the gym? Do I move?

I'm a junior developer, and I use Al because why wouldn't I?

Other than the fact that the company asks us to, it's just a tool added to this job that won't go away, so I think it's unreasonable to stop using it when it's part of the development toolkit now.

I usually understand the code the Al generates, but if you asked me to write the same thing from scratch, I couldn't. I'm not sure I ever will.

The only other junior dev at my company prompts
LLM for almost everything, so I don't really have a point of comparison.

I'm adding a lot of value at work and getting good feedback, but I don't know how much credit I should give myself?