u/tylaffootball

Hello all I am M22. I am now six weeks past my golf cart accident where I was looking down flexed over and distracted while and ran into a small sapling tree, but it stopped me suddenly and I don’t know exactly how fast I was going but 10 to 15 miles an hour is probably a safe guess. I remember hitting it and I launched forward and I didn’t have any immediate pain probably because of adrenaline and continues to play golf with without pain. My back started to tighten up a little bit towards the end of the round so I decided to stop a bit early and I iced it the rest of the night I had to work an overnight and as a CNA and it was uncomfortable, but doable. For about the first week, the back pain was not great and it hurt to lean over that got better at about two or three weeks and now the only thing that lingers is when I sit wherever there’s pressure on my butt, it is tingly and sore and I still have achy low back pain, depending on what I do. I went to the doctor and finally got an MRI which I will post the results below. The biggest thing is MRI report doesn’t really exist with the symptoms that I’m experiencing. Most of my stuff is localized to my low back or my buttocks, my right more than my left and sometimes I get electrical zaps that I can feel in my knees toes hips, but is probably the most common spot, but I’ve had this before I had the accident anyways it’s just been more frequent now.

Anyways, I’m just trying to figure out what I gotta do to get better. I’ve been trying McGill’s. I’ve been trying ice. I’ve been trying heat. All of it is temporary and feels OK and then the next day it’s miserable again whenever I sit it’s like my anxiety goes off every time I have to look at a chair cause I know it’s not gonna be comfortable. No medication really touches it other than the five day prednisone. I got once I did get my MRI, but all the sensations and symptoms came back after the course of it. Trying to stretch and I tried to run and it became so sore again too. I’m just trying to get back to my active life and I realize that I have to be careful but I’m doing like full golf swings and I don’t get any pain at all when I swing. The worst part is just sitting like I’ve tried to golf get back in the golf and watch other people and chipping put, but the biggest trigger I realize is just sitting in a bouncing cart the whole time and it aggravates my butt and back.

I know I’m seeming like a baby because a lot of people get severe pain, but this is very uncomfortable and annoying for me even though it’s not necessarily stabbing pain. It just won’t go away even when I try and sleep in bed. I’m with a pillow between my legs on my side, cause I can’t sleep with my back to the bed because it starts to burn and tingle in my butt as well, and it basically comes as soon as I wake up I realize the pain is there, but I do have severe health anxiety, so take this all with the grain of salt. I have not seen anybody yet or started PT. I’ve just been doing exercises alone since where I live PT appointments are out almost 2 months. I’m so lost and don’t know what to do in order to get back and be active and healthy and be able to golf again or even if I should I don’t know. Thanks for reading.

How I feel today at about six weeks is the back pain is very achy, but I’m still continuing to work CNA shifts I’m just not lifting the really really heavy people and staying away from task that will aggravate it. But the biggest thing is just my butt whenever I put my body weight pressure on it or foam roll. My butt is so sore even when when I stand, and I like kind of massaged by my sit bones, it is clearly sore and achy my right more than my left. Believe that this isn’t just regular sciatica and maybe that golf cart accident actually caused something in my hip pelvis area rather than my low back and it’s just deceiving because I did have a slightly abnormal MRI.

EXAM: MRI LUMBAR SPINE WITHOUT CONTRAST INDICATION: Low back pain, cauda equina syndrome suspected , golf cart accident TECHNIQUE: Multi-planar, multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine performed without IV contrast. COMPARISON: None available FINDINGS: The lumbar vertebral bodies are preserved in height as well as segmental alignment. No scoliosis. Marrow signal characteristics normal. No acute osseous abnormality. Conus medullaris terminates at T12/L1. Included soft tissues are unremarkable. Findings by level: T12/L1: Disc is normal with no central or foraminal narrowing. Neural foramina are patent. L1/L2: Disc normal. Minimal facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No central narrowing. Neural foramina are patent. L2/L3: Disc overall normal. Mild bilateral facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No central narrowing. Neural foramina are patent. L3/L4: Minimal broad-based disc bulge with associated facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No significant central narrowing. Potential minimal contact with the bilateral traversing L4 nerves however no overt impingement. Neural foramina are patent. L4/L5: Mild broad-based disc bulge. Mild bilateral facet arthropathy. No significant central stenosis. Neural foramina demonstrate mild narrowing on the left. L5/S1: Disc normal. No central narrowing. Neural foramina widely patent. IMPRESSION: 1. No acute abnormality of the lumbar spine. 2. Generally mild degenerative changes most notable for mild broad-based disc bulge at L3-L4 with potential minimal contact with the bilateral traversing L4 nerves however no overt impingement. No significant central or foraminal narrowing at any level.

So three weeks ago, I ran a golf cart into a small tree and it stopped me abruptly while I was looking down, flexing my spine. I’ve been working as a CNA ever since the injury I can bend I can walk and jump. I can run, but this nagging butt pain when sitting or lying down is very annoying. I got in MRI about seven days in because I couldn’t feel my butt about it two weeks ago:

EXAM: MRI LUMBAR SPINE WITHOUT CONTRAST INDICATION: Low back pain, golf cart accident , numbness TECHNIQUE: Multi-planar, multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine performed without IV contrast. COMPARISON: None available FINDINGS: The lumbar vertebral bodies are preserved in height as well as segmental alignment. No scoliosis. Marrow signal characteristics normal. No acute osseous abnormality. Conus medullaris terminates at T12/L1. Included soft tissues are unremarkable.

Findings by level:

T12/L1: Disc is normal with no central or foraminal narrowing. Neural foramina are patent.

L1/L2: Disc normal. Minimal facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No central narrowing. Neural foramina are patent.

L2/L3: Disc overall normal. Mild bilateral facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No central narrowing. Neural foramina are patent.

L3/L4: Minimal broad-based disc bulge with associated facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No significant central narrowing. Potential minimal contact with the bilateral traversing L4 nerves however no overt impingement. Neural foramina are patent.

L4/L5: Mild broad-based disc bulge. Mild bilateral facet arthropathy. No significant central stenosis. Neural foramina demonstrate mild narrowing on the left.

L5/S1: Disc normal. No central narrowing. Neural foramina widely patent.

IMPRESSION: 1. No acute abnormality of the lumbar spine. 2. Generally mild degenerative changes most notable for mild broad-based disc bulge at L3-L4 with potential minimal contact with the bilateral traversing L4 nerves however no overt impingement. No significant central or foraminal narrowing at any level.

Trying McGill, rest, and decompression and nothing is giving me any relief. Ibuprofen and Robixan are not helping either. I’m only 22 and know the scan isn’t life changing but my like only hobby is golfing and I’m willing to make my back stronger so I can limit reinjury but I’m super health anxious so trying to figure out next steps and hoping this burning feeling goes away

Ran into a tree with a golf cart. Have had intense bilateral butt and low back burning especially when lying or sitting. Has been going on for 2 weeks straight now. I’m only 22 and now have to give up golf.

EXAM: MRI LUMBAR SPINE WITHOUT CONTRAST INDICATION: Low back pain, cauda equina syndrome suspected , golf cart accident TECHNIQUE: Multi-planar, multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine performed without IV contrast. COMPARISON: None available FINDINGS: The lumbar vertebral bodies are preserved in height as well as segmental alignment. No scoliosis. Marrow signal characteristics normal. No acute osseous abnormality. Conus medullaris terminates at T12/L1. Included soft tissues are unremarkable.

Findings by level:

T12/L1: Disc is normal with no central or foraminal narrowing. Neural foramina are patent.

L1/L2: Disc normal. Minimal facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No central narrowing. Neural foramina are patent.

L2/L3: Disc overall normal. Mild bilateral facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No central narrowing. Neural foramina are patent.

L3/L4: Minimal broad-based disc bulge with associated facet arthropathy and ligamentum flavum redundancy. No significant central narrowing. Potential minimal contact with the bilateral traversing L4 nerves however no overt impingement. Neural foramina are patent.

L4/L5: Mild broad-based disc bulge. Mild bilateral facet arthropathy. No significant central stenosis. Neural foramina demonstrate mild narrowing on the left.

L5/S1: Disc normal. No central narrowing. Neural foramina widely patent.

IMPRESSION: 1. No acute abnormality of the lumbar spine. 2. Generally mild degenerative changes most notable for mild broad-based disc bulge at L3-L4 with potential minimal contact with the bilateral traversing L4 nerves however no overt impingement. No significant central or foraminal narrowing at any level.

Hello, I am M22. I was bending down to grab a golf ball while driving the golf cart and hit a small tree not looking where I was going at decent speed and it stopped me dead on. I’ve always had back pain on and off already. I was able to play a couple more holes without pain until I thought it would be a good idea to just stop. It’s been seven days now and I’m getting intermittent foot tingling, especially with shoes on and a burning sensation and over the last three days, my buttocks has become tingly and now today for the first time my buttock is like partially numb as the back pain has slowly started dissipate. I can’t afford to get another MRI as one was just done less than a year ago, but I can move my body around well it’s just super weird sensation going on and worried that this is permanent and I have finally caused a disc to leave it’s correct position. But it is bilateral I’m experiencing all this bilaterally. MRI that was clean eight months ago after another back injury. I am so dumb. I’m so health anxious and know this is the straw that finally broke the camels back.

I was golfing today and looking down for my ball in the golf cart when I rammed into a small tree and immediately stopped my entire body, and I didn’t experience much pain in the beginning but tonight when I’m working my overnight shift as a CNA it is starting to burn in my butt, and I can start to feel a little bit of tingling on the bottom of my feet. About seven months ago I had to clean lumbar MRI after a small car accident. Feels like this is finally the accident that will bulge a disc

I wish everyone could record their tone and just put in it this forum and create a symphony of hell

So I perforated my same eardrum two times now in the past year I just graduated five days ago went to the ceremony and had to deal with loud noises the entire time when I have a history of hyperacusis and tinnitus in the left ear I’ve never wanted tinnitus in both ears after that do I kept s plug in my left ear but not my right and I’ve tried to wear protection, but I thought my right ear would be fine, but it clearly wasn’t because now I have tinnitus like baby cricket sounds in silence in my right ear for the past five days my hearing test was normal about two weeks ago, but that exposure and a car horn right in front of me was too much exposure and likely just gave myself permanent tones now in my right ear, which is completely different from my left one. I didn’t know that having a perforation would make it easier to develop tinnitus and permanent inner ear I’ve made that mistake and it’s likely never getting better. It’s day five now so likely not getting better at times it feels like it’s nonexistent, but it comes back two seconds later. I still have an open ear drum about eight weeks now and the tinnitus didn’t happen until I experienced noise exposure about a week ago. My life is over and I can’t believe I was so stupid I just wanted to celebrate my four years of nursing school hell. And instead I get this… can’t make it up.