My Back Hurts.

So on Thursday I will be going back to my Acupuncturist (who looks, and speaks exactly like Mr. Van Driessen from Beavis and Butthead, minus the long hair), and hopefully get some help with this stupid back pain. Yeah, it's not fun getting poked all over with needles, but it's really not fun living with back pain. I know, I know, lose some weight! Well, easier said than done. I don't know the first thing, or where to start. Plus, I'm lazy. And I love food.  There. I said it. Isn't that the first step? I don't like to exercise, cause...well, it takes effort. I don't like to walk, cause walking hurts my back. Standing upright hurts my back.

I have scoliosis, and I had sciatica that required surgery. The surgery helped with my sciatica, but not my back pain. It wasn't meant to help with the back pain. It helped with the crippling pain screeching down my right leg. I still have, and always will have back pain. I'm taking prescription narcotics for the pain, and I really don't enjoy taking narcotics. Maybe I'm not taking them right, but I just don't see how people get their rocks off taking narcotics. I get a horrible headache, and nausea. That is not fun! I don't get high, but I do get dizzy-headed. Kinda like after spinning in cirlces for a few seconds. Not fun!

My first visit with the acupuncturist was a little scary. I had some anxiety while he was poking needles in my arms, legs, feet, and ears. Yes, ears. I don't know, but he pissed some nerves off somewhere cause now I have a little sciatic pain in my left leg! Sheesh! I'm trying to lesson my current pain, not develop more. But, it was my first treatment, and there's lot of other places to stick, so we'll see.

I guess the point of all this is that I want to get off narcotics, be lazy, and eat myself into a stupor. Is that too much to ask?